Sentence examples for wrong instrument from inspiring English sources

"Legal or counter-terrorism responses are the wrong instrument.

You are using the wrong instrument in the wrong venue.

Military force is the wrong instrument for achieving imprecise objectives based on unrealistic goals.

You will be using a modern piano, which is the wrong instrument for Bach, and for this work in particular.

When CDs were played, he mimed along to songs with the wrong instrument — violin for guitar, flute for piano — following an old family joke that has found its way into the script of "The Three Stooges".

New nurses, he explained, would mean more mistakes — not fatal mistakes but irregularities in the flow of his operating room, such as someone's handing him the wrong instrument, or handing him an instrument with the blade up instead of down, or even just a certain hesitation, because to Wilson the perfect operation requires a particular grace and rhythm.

Standardized tests (news article, Jan . 26 are the wrong instruments to use to measure instructional effectiveness.

It was weird seeing them play the wrong instruments, like a tribute band.

And if we don't, well, it may be that our best theories about dark matter are wrong that we're looking in the wrong places, with the wrong instruments.

Circulating 25(OH D and 1,25(OH)2D may not reflect the amount of 25(OH D and 1,25(OH)2D available for use within the target tissues [ 50], so we may be using the wrong instruments to examine the effects of vitamin D status.

The installation man assured him that there was nothing wrong with the instrument itself; it would work all right if it were not so close to the R.C.A. building.