Sentence examples for wrongly spoken from inspiring English sources

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It is usually expressed in the form 10× (for an image magnified 10-fold), sometimes wrongly spoken as "ten eks"—as though the × were an algebraic symbol rather than the correct form, "ten times".

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People have spoken, wrongly, about 3.3 million British jobs being 'linked' to our membership of the EU.

"If you had spoken wrongly, we would have killed you".

The unfashionable and sometimes taciturn Pim Verbeek was wrongly condemned for speaking with honesty, but Postecoglou's frankness should be congratulated in an era of sporting clichés.

Over its two-hour duration, Dylan Voller, members of the Stolen Generation, and a mother who had her children wrongly taken away spoke to the crowds.

"Some of the guys don't want to be ashamed if they speak wrongly to an English person," Imad says, "so they don't try.

The atheist community is already critical when they speak wrongly, activists and authors like Greta Christina, CJ Werleman and respected journalists like Amanda Marcott who don't fear being critical of these more famous atheists simply because we are all atheists.

Doctors have no right to say we speak wrongly.

At one point Israel's ambassador was reported (wrongly, he later claimed) to have spoken of a "tectonic" change in American policy.

And he repeatedly highlighted the fact that the comments were spoken, not written, as Eagleton wrongly claimed (which, in some degree, allowed Amis to dodge the central charge of Islamophobia).

"I've spoken with congressional staffers who wrongly believe that a bill has been passed since the Upper Big Branch disaster".

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