Sentence examples for wrong envelope from inspiring English sources

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(In fact, Sammy Davis, Jr., once read from the wrong envelope, in 1964).

The company promised to investigate the error after Warren Beatty, who was presenting the best picture award with Faye Dunaway, ended up with the wrong envelope.

When he opened the letter though, he found a note from the Pres. to American chess international grand master Bobby Fischer, accidently sent in the wrong envelope.

Then he sent Lawrence a note asking if he could see him but the note never got to him because he put it into a wrong envelope.

The slightest deviation from instructions -- a form that was not initialed properly, illegible handwriting, a document placed in the wrong envelope, or a bewildering, messy worksheet that looked like someone's misplaced homework -- required attorneys to confer.

And one relieved customer had £10,000 ($16,000) in cash returned after he accidentally threw away the wrong envelope when the sale of a car didn't go through.

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The spooks had put them back in the wrong envelopes.

Lately, though, Huckabee has been getting his signals mixed, like a man putting letters to his wife and his mistress in the wrong envelopes.

When Mike Huckabee struggles to speak to two different audiences, evangelical and not, at the same time, it's "like a man putting letters to his wife and his mistress in the wrong envelopes".

Republicans in Miami-Dade County complained that election workers were mishandling the ballots and putting them in the wrong envelopes, an accusation that Phil Beck, a Bush lawyer, repeated to Judge Sauls today.

Discussing the "mystery" of his Fleet Street success, he wrote, "I have a notion that the real advice I could give to a young journalist, now that I am myself an old journalist, is simply this: to write an article for the Sporting Times and another for the Church Times, and put them into the wrong envelopes".

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