How to Use incorrect in a Sentence

incorrect

adjective

• The story in the newspaper is incorrect.
• The restaurant considers jeans and T-shirts incorrect attire for dinner.
• The doctor's diagnosis was incorrect.
• The post’s claim that the amount is double what the U.S. spent in the Afghanistan War is incorrect.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
• So to say Palmer is one of these things more than the other would be incorrect.
  — WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
• An incorrect consent form and the failure to put a mark on the correct body part led to the mistake.
  — Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• Teachers have complained that some of the sounds for the letters are incorrect.
  — Stephanie Claytor, Parents, 20 Nov. 2023
• The catch: Their group shares the $1 million prize money, which shrinks with each incorrect guess.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 13 July 2024
• That proved to be an incorrect interpretation of the law, upheld all the way to the Supreme Court.
  — Karen Weaver, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• Instead, Taneja asked a colleague to sign her name with the incorrect date as well.
  — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Feb. 2024
• Clerk Mike Brown, who sits on the board, said in his opinion the incorrect form was filled out properly.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
• On the same play, the NBA found two incorrect no-calls, one that benefitted each team.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2023
• The duo soon learn that the penalty for an incorrect answer is death: A man in a black mask, wielding a crossbow, kills Shawn.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• But at least in some cases that appeared to be incorrect.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
• So, the state likes to present it as … clown wig fibers, but that's factually incorrect.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2023
• The incorrect ballots are then spoiled and not counted.
  — María Méndez, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Oct. 2022
• TikTok said the claims of a breach discovered over the weekend were incorrect.
  — Jamie Tarabay, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2022
• Not all notices are due to incorrect pay, the department said.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
• However, the reader who emailed the U-T last week pointed out that was incorrect.
  — Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• They also may have been charged incorrect fees and other costs.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 20 Jan. 2023
• The pressure in the pipe could be incorrect, meaning the exit velocity of the gas isn’t quite right, or high winds could cause the flame to flicker.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
• The report also said the body was in the woods for a year or two — which authorities now believe was incorrect.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
• But, a pair of incorrect Daily Doubles dropped her out of contention.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
• Lally suggested the time stamp on the video might have been incorrect due to daylight savings time.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2022
• There's also the chance bad actors could misuse the feature to assign an incorrect name or false labels to a piece of work.
  — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
• The method of appointing the chair and vice chair of the Literacy Task Force was initially incorrect.
  — Tcrain, al, 7 June 2023
• But not only might the projections have been incorrect; someone else might already have found the stash.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
• In fact, some of the statements about open-border policies and migrant returns are incorrect.
  — Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• But that hasn’t quieted Burgess, who says incorrect voter data wound up in the new system.
  — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2024
• But as a result of incorrect settings, tabulators used to count absentee ballots in Warren and Roseville did not flag such ballots for adjudication and instead processed them just like ballots without overvotes, Forlini said.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024