in the wrong
Example Sentences
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Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 is not crowded — people are just walking in the "wrong place", the airport's boss has said.
From BBC
Piecing together my turbulent family life and adolescent internet habits, among other things, it dawned on me that I had never been “born in the wrong body.”
Camille is pounding away on the keyboard, sighing when someone lives in the wrong zip code and taking a triumphant bite of pasta when she finds a possibility.
From Literature
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Baldy changes after a winter storm, when the upper reaches are blanketed in snow and ice and a slip in the wrong place can lead to a catastrophic, unstoppable fall.
From Los Angeles Times
But if his rivals are searching for Klaebo’s secrets in Norway, there is one tiny problem: They’re looking in the wrong hemisphere.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.