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How to use get wrong in a sentence

He asked what time was usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what degree of expense?

To see a part of my scheme, from which I had hoped so much, go wrong before my eyes is maddening!

So far as the right or wrong of having contraband whisky was concerned, I don't think any one gave it a second thought.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

Strange to say, the silken cord yielded to the first pull, as if nothing had been wrong with it at all!

Of Liszt the first part of this is not true, for if he strikes a wrong note it is simply because he chooses to be careless.

Liszt sometimes strikes wrong notes when he plays, but it does not trouble him in the least.

I have never known a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

If he didn't give it to me, I took it, for fear I should be led to do anything wrong, through not having it.

But the ill-natured people were quite wrong; it was not Messrs. Jones who paid Mrs. Charmington's bills.

I must make no mistake, and blunder into a national type of features, all wrong; if I make your mask, it must do us credit.

CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985