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
• 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
• 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
• The navy said an earlier tally of 106 people on board was incorrect because one sailor failed to join the journey.
  — Tassanee Vejpongsa and Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2022
• The message used an incorrect name for her neighborhood.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• In Lyon County, roughly 1,100 voters were given the wrong ballot because their precinct was placed in an incorrect district for the State Assembly.
  — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2024
• Some consumers had incorrect negative information added to their credit reports, the agency said, and others faced long waits to get their money back.
  — Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024