Sample Sentences for
awry
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    She doesn't care about the technology—she suspects that something is awry with my test results.  (source)
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    When Hitler rose to power in 1933, though, the painting business fell slightly awry.  (source)
    awry = in an unintended way
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    Where her mother was prone to express her impatience with the slightest of the world's imperfections, Sofia seemed to presume that if the earth spun awry upon occasion, it was generally a well-intentioned planet.  (source)
    awry = improperly
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    As soon as he was out of the room, Edgar was up running through the kitchen, but his sense of balance had gone awry.  (source)
    awry = wrong (off kilter)
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    Mr. Weasley, kind-faced, balding, his spectacles a little awry;  (source)
    awry = crooked
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    Something definitely was awry.  (source)
    awry = wrong
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    A hostage rescue operation had gone awry, he and two other operatives were about to be killed.†  (source)
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    A monument to kitsch gone woefully awry.†  (source)
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    BOSTON, FEB. 13 (UPI) —Plans for a Valentine's Day wedding went awry because a tall bride-to-be has disappeared after leaving a note to her still taller fiancé, and her engagement ring pinned to a pillow.†  (source)
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    The one set of plans she had made—getting away from Sweet Home—went awry so completely she never dared life by making more.†  (source)
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    Your task as you deliberate together on these proceedings is to ensure that you do nothing to yield to a universe in which things go awry by happenstance.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    His new coat did not fit very well, for the tailor had been hurried and some of the seams were awry.†  (source)
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