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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    Mr. Weasley, kind-faced, balding, his spectacles a little awry;  (source)
    awry = crooked
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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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    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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    If things go awry, running won't help you anyway.†  (source)
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    Time, something expressed analogously with numbers, goes entirely awry in battle, as you must know.†  (source)
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    But Kennedy's good intentions have gone awry.†  (source)
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    We ran through the doorway, dodging a random wombat that went flying over our heads—possibly someone's spell gone awry—and stepped into complete pandemonium.†  (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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