How to Use wrongful in a Sentence

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• He is suing his former employer for wrongful termination.
• But off the court, the wrongful imprisonment of a man named Jonathan Irons had long hung over Moore Irons’s head like a dark cloud.
  — Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 June 2023
• No amount of money could undo the harm that the wrongful conviction caused.
  — Essence, 15 Dec. 2021
• Now free men, the DeJesus brothers want to move on from the pain and loss that wrongful convictions bring.
  — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 29 Nov. 2022
• Our goal with this book is to raise awareness of wrongful convictions and in some small way help to prevent more of them.
  — CBS News, 18 Oct. 2024
• For reparations to be made, there must be a clear wrongful party and a victim.
  — Jon McGowan, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
• Hearings before Hanzman and a second judge on the wrongful-death claims have taken place over the past five weeks.
  — Curt Anderson, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2022
• And the wrongful arrest wasn’t just a minor annoyance for Williams.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2021
• Richard Miles knows the deep injustice of a wrongful conviction.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
• Miles spent 15 years in prison for a wrongful murder conviction.
  — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Continuing the work of the Supreme Court’s wrongful conviction task force, set up by O’Connor last year.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2021
• Sailor has spent his four years out of prison talking to students about his wrongful conviction.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2022
• In April, six people received jail terms of up to 13 years for abuse and wrongful imprisonment.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
• Case thinks the wrongful exclusion is not just unique to Hernandez.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
• Chicago and Illinois is one of the kind of hotbeds for places where wrongful convictions have happened.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2023
• The first wrongful conviction that outraged Dennis Muñoz was his own.
  — Nelson Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2023
• In March, Flynn filed a suit against the United States for wrongful prosecution.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
• The decision clears the way for Miller, who has been free since 2018, to collect money from the state’s wrongful imprisonment fund.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2021
• Under the state’s wrongful conviction statute, awards are capped at $1 million.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Ater Caprio’s death, Rintoul sought to add himself as a plaintiff and pursue a wrongful-death claim as a surviving spouse.
  — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2022
• By the time the FBI caught them, in 2017, the conspiracy had resulted in one dead civilian and a rash of wrongful arrests and convictions.
  — Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2021
• The Panic destroyed lives, led to wrongful convictions.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023
• Several wrongful convictions have been brought to light in recent years in the Kansas City metro.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 15 June 2024
• The suit accuses Goth of battery and A24, Goth and West of wrongful termination.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 10 July 2024
• The owner of the Infinite was cited for wrongful entrustment.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 1 June 2022
• In Frankenstein’s dark romantic world, the monster’s creation led to the wrongful execution of his friend’s servant and to the murder of his wife.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 11 July 2023
• The wrongful accusation of the Dimases means more episodes of Only Murders.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2021
• In Texas, the order doesn’t give vaccine objectors who lose their jobs a right to bring claims of wrongful termination.
  — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• Foltz’s death has also led to a wrongful-death lawsuit against the fraternity, the expulsion of three students and the suspension of 17.
  — Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
• Solovey is part of another wrongful lawsuit against Baldwin and the Rust producers brought by Hutchins’ immediate family that’s still ongoing.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024