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improper position or unplanned outcome- Your crown's awry; I'll mend it and then play.William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra
- She is wearing a T-shirt like the dwarf's and Viktor says this is the result of an importing ploy gone awry.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- Then as though there was not enough trouble with the women of his house all awry, there was Wang Lung's youngest son.Pearl S. Buck -- The Good Earth
- A monument to kitsch gone woefully awry.Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
- I entered a scene that felt like a holiday party gone awry—a few bottles of champagne rested on one desk, surrounded by tiny paper cups.Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
- Avada — Harry launched himself across the floor and grabbed the Death Eater around the knees, causing him to topple and his aim to go awry.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- His mouth was twisted awry till it met his ears ... flakes of fire streamed from it.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- A pause in the wrong place, an intonation misunderstood, and a whole conversation went awry.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- Something definitely was awry.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- It may be unbalanced to fly out of England, but to stay away eight months argues that the heart is awry as well as the head.E.M. Forster -- Howards End
- Tears of rage that all his plans had gone awry.Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
- His tie was slightly awry, he kept biting his nails, those of one hand only, his right...... I needn't go on, need I?Albert Camus -- The Plague
- Her bonnet was awry; she was incomparably dowdy.Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
- He has lost his straw hat, his tie is awry, and his blue suit is dirty.Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
- I want that gold ready when Gudgeon's plan goes awry.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- She doesn't care about the technology—she suspects that something is awry with my test results.Veronica Roth -- Divergent
- Somehow, my plan for last night had gone horribly awry, and I needed come to grips with the consequences.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- Cinder bit back awry laugh.Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
- That is, if Mandel doesn't throw the scheme awry, thought Roran.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- For example, many airlines teach a standardized procedure for copilots to challenge the pilot if he or she thinks something has gone terribly awry.Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers