Sentence examples for wrong note for from inspiring English sources

It's a wrong note for Gatsby to think about costs, large or small.

This Wimbledon started on the wrong note for the natives, as the English failed to send a men's player into the singles draw for the first time.

I realized I had begun on precisely the wrong note, for she too did not want to be singled out as a woman who had passed along anything particularly "female" or indeed anything other than the caliber of her brilliant work.

The wrong note cries out for help.

In a small but glaringly wrong note, the flap-copy writer for "Beginner's Greek" compares Collins in passing to Tom Wolfe.

Until then, his voters will be like parents at a piano recital, waiting nervously for the next wrong note.

Although this was received as a preacherly caution to the masses, Marley was in fact chiding one of his guitarists for playing a wrong note; he was never less than a pro.

The Democratic Alliance's penchant for striking the wrong note was on display again last week when the party's parliamentary leader, Lindiwe Mazibuko, gave a talk to an audience of mostly young professionals and one of them asked what the D.A. could do to help instill confidence in young black graduates.

Manya had perfect pitch; it was torture for her to hear a wrong note.

What could go wrong?" Note: the apples and oranges comparison discussion has been revised for clarity.

Roger Ebert thought, "Hugh Grant is wrong for the role [and] strikes one wrong note and then another," whereas Kenneth Turan, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said, "If he'd been on the Titanic, fewer lives would have been lost.