Sentence examples for wrong explanation from inspiring English sources

I think that's the wrong explanation.

For many years we taught the wrong explanation for the way wings keep planes in the air.

I think, however, that the writers of this article have the wrong explanation as to why so many people make this mistake.

In his speech, Portman castigated the Obama administration for not taking a tougher line on China — which is actually something I've complained about too — then offered a completely wrong explanation.

The assumed reason for this is the ongoing cold war between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police union, but that is the wrong explanation.

Forbes is critical of Thayer's rejection of warning coloration, quoting Thayer's daughter Gladys as writing "My father's special mission was tasting butterflies"; Thayer apparently wanted to prove that mimicry was the wrong explanation as both model and mimic tasted the same.

As the name, definition and interpretation of the discipline were translated from the writings and texts of foreign countries, such as the US, the UK, France, Germany, and even Japan, the Chinese versions were often different and not sufficiently accurate, informative or comprehensive, and in some cases, they contained one-sided or even wrong explanations.

The prosecution stuck doggedly to the sex-game-gone-wrong explanation even though their own medical examiner said there was no evidence of rape in the days following the murder.

This happens so seldom that you immediately start suspecting some weird "astrological retrograde moons in the wrong house" explanation, but Sunday was decidedly a bad day to be a quarterback named Manning.

To be sure, not all women who have unintended pregnancies wind up visiting abortion clinics nowadays, but the reason is not necessarily that they have come to believe that "killing unborn children is wrong" — the explanation that Carol Tobias, of National Right to Life, offered for why the abortion rate has fallen.

If the selection is wrong, an explanation of the error is provided.