How To Use Awry In A Sentence

But King George's smile was a bit awry tonight.
with his necktie twisted awry
If something goes awry, more than five billion people would be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
Like arthritis, multiple sclerosis and diabetes, lupus is a disease of the immune system gone awry.
This is a case where the justness of conception and of the means to carry it out go awry due to one slightly wrong choice.

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There is no sober-minded, fast pace also goes awry; no caution pace, then flat road will fall.
They call this season bordwo bo'uai ('blowing the petticoats awry'), in reference to the effect of the first strong gales of the south-eastern breeze.
When things go awry, they escape to the underground streets of the city.
Romero sought a documentary feel to his narrative, using handheld cameras and up-close shots to bring the audience into this world gone awry.
His control of length was awry and Australia's batsmen snuffed out his threat effectively. Times, Sunday Times
It can repair the shattered beliefs and, sometimes, the ailing soul of an organization gone awry.
something has gone awry in our plans
Instantly, he let go of Sam, his free hand stilling the clapper, for a bell gone awry could have disastrous consequences for its wielder. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
A tad more pressure, the paper blots, and the picture goes awry.
Nightmare wore off somewhat during the day, but still feel things have gone awry since the weekend.
Tomorrow one of the Clintons will find a way to martyr themselves with victimization and sad tales of derry-do gone awry. Obama: Bigger than Bill Clinton, Bigger than MLK, Jr.
Indeed, the effect of Cornwallis's kindly but unsmiling expression was much modified because his wig was slightly awry; Cornwallis still affected a horsehair bobwig of the sort that was now being relegated by fashion to noblemen's coachmen, and today it had a rakish cant that dissipated all appearance of dignity. Hornblower And The Hotspur
How affecting he is now, outlining aspects of the divisive mess that's ensued since the deaths of Doctors Bond and Barnes, in this engrossingly sad indictment of power gone awry, directed by Don Argott serving as his own cinematographer. Michael Henry Adams: The Art of the Steal: Betraying Dr. Albert Barnes and Future Generations
Something is going seriously awry when, in a quarter with a general election, the flagship news programme goes down and not up. Times, Sunday Times
The bowlers lost their length because they were being attacked, not that the margins are great between the perfect yorker and something sufficiently awry to disappear. Times, Sunday Times
Previous management were either too proud or too arrogant to accept the fact that their attempts at empire building had gone seriously awry.
In the meantime, this high-school chemistry experiment gone awry continues.
If we are going to claim sexual equality, we can't throw our hands in the air and play the tragic victim when things go awry.
Good-natured ribbing is one thing, but I've seen these things go horribly awry, with the guest of ‘honor’ running out in tears.
Just for a moment, people were wondering was it going to go awry.
Vicente Aranda's take on the story is a classical tale of faithless woman, doomed lover and romance gone awry.
EnlargeAP file photoJeff George stands as a cautionary tale for quarterbacks gone awry from the top overall draft spot. QB quandary: No. 1 pick doesn't guarantee success
Paul Kedrosky, in the course of a sideways voyage up my fundament, dismisses my argument here as ‘studiously awry.’
But this instinct has gone awry. Christianity Today
During the theft he comes upon a chambermaid whom he takes hostage, then kills, as his escape attempt goes awry.
John Grishams first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. The best recent books: True Crime
The distinct morphology of this and other brain cacti, known as cristate or crested growth, is caused by an apical meristem gone awry.
The strike has sent the plans for investment seriously awry.
The slightest off-key note and the whole story can go awry.
A safety diver hovered above and two guys were up top ready to haul me out if anything went awry.
Another common thread running through the stories is that of relationships gone awry.
a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry
The difficulty was that in impassioned moments the mustache was apt to get awry; and once or twice, while on his knees before Tina in tragical attitudes, this occurrence set her off into hysterical giggles, which spoiled the effect of the rehearsal. Oldtown Folks
For many peasants, the double burden of taxation and war led either to outlawry or to the one available source of protection, a powerful local individual.
But what? methinks I deserve to be pounded, for straying from poetry to oratory: but both have such an affinity in this wordish consideration, that I think this digression will make my meaning receive the fuller understanding: which is not to take upon me to teach poets how they should do, but only finding myself sick among the rest, to show some one or two spots of the common infection, grown among the most part of writers: that, acknowledging ourselves somewhat awry, we may bend to the right use both of matter and manner; whereto our language giveth us great occasion, being indeed capable of any excellent exercising of it. English literary criticism
That our government takes the initiative ... to urge international outlawry of atomic and hydrogen weapons.
Its forecasts for economic growth and inflation have gone seriously awry in recent years. Times, Sunday Times
Results often go awry if patients use flawed techniques, which prevent the medicine from reaching the airway passage.
Something must be awry at the bank, if he has to rely on that old chestnut. Times, Sunday Times
It is hard to imagine the anatomical member to which you allude being demised legally or otherwise by means of a lease*, but I can tell you that circumcisions have gone awry resulting in demised ones and lawsuits. The Volokh Conspiracy » More Evidence for Christina Hoff Sommers’ “War Against Boys” Theory?
His businesses follow a giddy arc and tend to go awry. Times, Sunday Times
Her hair was awry and she had one hand on one jutting hip indignantly, her eyes half-closed in a cuss. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Lawry ducked the blow and uppercut him in the jaw.
On topic, when I do homefries or similar taters, I use a combo of Lawry's and McCormick's Steakhouse Seasoning, not too heavy though. Soaking Is Key For Perfect Homemade French Fries | Lifehacker Australia
Tractor's one-off about the word awry touched me in that pace. Wired Campus
The soundtrack is a version of Paul Dukas '"The Sorcerer's Apprentice", a tone poem that sets to music a poem by Goethe about an apprentice who tries to use magic while his master is away, and it all goes awry. Are these the first TV ads for Windows Phone 7
The figures suggest that something is awry. Times, Sunday Times
Beyond giving vent to frustrations at a relationship gone seriously awry, such rhetoric augurs a troubled future.
The figures suggest that something is awry. Times, Sunday Times
The boys had merely had a few drinks and a wee singsong, and things had gone slightly awry.
Hair of an unruly curling black hung awry upon her crooked shoulders and cascaded to the waist.
Your Honours, this is case where it is submitted the course of justice has gone awry to an extent meriting the attention of this Court.
Sometimes I just say that I am living my life in compartments and try not to let the areas overflow, because then it all goes awry!! Mise-en-scène - French Word-A-Day
Kim was given the secret task of artfully slipping the tongue-twisting word 'discombobulate' into conversations with each of the camp mates without any of them twigging there was anything awry. Undefined
In six little minutes more she soundly rated a careless servant-girl for carrying a nipperkin of wine awry and spilling good liquor. The Cloister and the Hearth
Of course, when things go awry we always single out and punish somebody, usually the coach.
If those arrangements spectacularly go awry, they can't expect to hide behind a cloak of deception. Times, Sunday Times
He cannot afford these reforms to go awry. Times, Sunday Times
Its forecasts for economic growth and inflation have gone seriously awry in recent years. Times, Sunday Times
There is no sober-minded, fast pace also goes awry; no caution pace, then flat road will fall.
From an early age they were convinced it was impossible to make wise decisions without considering the humorous ramifications of plans gone awry.
This is where the cinematic translation really starts to go awry.
- The first trial run of the aircraft goes awry, with the engine stalling mid-flight, causing Hal to eject from the plane, destroying it. DC’s Next, Green Lantern: A GKS Script « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
This was no craft project gone awry. Smithsonian Mag
McConkey, 39, a legendary big-mountain skier from Squaw Valley, died in northern Italy last March when a daring stunt off a Dolomite Mountains cliff went awry. Mancuso closes out with heavy heart; Vonn one race to go
There is always something unforeseen that is bound to go awry. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
Grilled but i am not awry in indecorously electric knife sharpeners a saprobe that fimbria the dramamine of countersubversion incorporated and magnifico sporozoan pizzazz memorably. fred turnstone eponymy be hoosgow them up in the axile frock, with valedictory weigher and photogravure the way they do in theosophism, tenet. Rational Review
Lepotane, son of the chief of a remote village in Basutoland, becomes innocently involved in a ritual murder which goes awry. A. A. Murray
Umar Akmal (17 not out) and Misbah (43no) combined for three boundaries as Roach's next over went badly awry and the former hoisted Bravo over mid-off for four more to clinch victory. Pakistan's Ahmed Shehzad scores century to subdue West Indies
The organization's plans go horribly awry.
He admired outlaws when their outlawry was conducted with daring and intelligence.
Grilled but i am not awry in indecorously electric knife sharpeners a saprobe that fimbria the dramamine of countersubversion incorporated and magnifico sporozoan pizzazz memorably. fred turnstone eponymy be hoosgow them up in the axile frock, with valedictory weigher and photogravure the way they do in theosophism, tenet. Rational Review
But hey, my friend Darren exited a 3-week emergency stay at the hospital with a ruptured bowel from a lithotripsy gone awry. Just Another American Healthcare Story
It would be a bonny thing if, by the escape of one ill-doer another was to go scatheless, and the remeid is to summon the principal and put him to outlawry for the non-compearance. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
The camera is objective enough in framing the size of the structure, in presenting its countless lifeless and identical compartments, but again the horror arises from the severe possibility of disenfranchisement gone awry. Weekend Weirdness Review: Tony - London Serial Killer | /Film
Play your cards close to your chest in case things go awry. The Sun
His first crack last year went awry; it lasted four games because the Maple Leafs swept the Senators.
I recognise the fact that there are days when things just go awry.
It is not the first time that a sizeable chunk of IT expenditure has gone awry. Times, Sunday Times
No longer does he look like a science experiment gone awry. Times, Sunday Times
One has to wonder why humans who believe in spraying, shooting and slaughtering insects and animals, fail to look to themselves when nature goes awry. Honeybees: have they emigrated to Mexico?
- I4v - an affinitie in the wordish consideration, that I think this digression will make my meaning receive the fuller understanding: which is not to take upon me to teach Poets how they should do, but only finding my selfe sicke among the rest, to shew some one or two spots of the common infection growne among the most part of writers; that acknowledging our selves somewhat awry, wee may bende to the right use both of matter and manner. Defence of Poesie
The only person that would commit such a deed would be a desperate criminal, accustomed to a life of outlawry.
The figures suggest that something is awry. Times, Sunday Times
It is true that when one has driven up the private road, be the same a mere "boreen" or a "shplendid avenue," the bell is found to be broken, the knocker wrenched off, the blinds hauled up awry, and the servants hard to be got at; but the householder is prosperous nevertheless. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
“Secret murder” on the other hand (i.e. a concealed killing) was almost always punished by outlawry. The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The editor came from the inner office, a straw hat awry on his brow.
Article 23b of the Hague Regulations, signed by the U.S. and other nations in 1907, prohibits assassination, proscription, or outlawry of an enemy, or putting a price upon an enemy's head, as well as offering a reward for an enemy 'dead or alive'. Blake Fleetwood: Did We Save Bin Laden From a "Fate Worse Than Death"?
Something has plainly gone horribly awry in their domestic politics and the structure of their national economy. Times, Sunday Times
If something goes awry, like a Cabinet revolt, the government falls and new elections are held.
Its forecasts for economic growth and inflation have gone seriously awry in recent years. Times, Sunday Times
Her hair was awry and she had one hand on one jutting hip indignantly, her eyes half-closed in a cuss. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
The cattier corners of the web have been tittering over a certain chiropractor's website gone awry, courtesy of a disgruntled and allegedly unpaid web designer. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
While I preferred the villain in the second movie, I found the story flabbier (egads, the Aunt May speech!), heavy-handed (Spiderman's Christ-like pose as he bodysurfs his way down the crowd of commuters), and occasionally mystifying (I'll just drop this fusion experiment gone awry into New York Harbor and that should just about do it ...). I Was Grossly Misinformed About Spider-Man 3...
Willie finds Leo a job, but things rapidly go awry when a job goes dramatically and violently wrong.
They'll likely turn to outlawry now and fall upon pilgrims such as you. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
Audiences at home and abroad began to voice disappointment, some even expressing the suspicion that plans had gone seriously awry.
Human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena — and this predisposition is a by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry Did Christianity Cause the Crash?
These are dramatic figures which suggest something is indeed seriously awry with Bermuda's black men.
I was extremely sensitive to light and sound, I had terrific migraine headaches and my hormones seemed to have gone awry.
Like arthritis, multiple sclerosis and diabetes, lupus is a disease of the immune system gone awry.
After the war they spearheaded a broad, politically active peace movement that, however, promoted contending programs, including arms limitation, outlawry of war, and international organization.
Beyond giving vent to frustrations at a relationship gone seriously awry, such rhetoric augurs a troubled future.
When an audience in a jazz club feels the need to wear earplugs, something is awry.
There is no sober-minded, fast pace also goes awry; no caution pace, then flat road will fall.
-- It's unclear if there was a problem with the ice on the far blueline near the Predators 'bench, but from the press box it looked like something was awry when the puck had a mind of its own there on two consecutive shifts. Predators 3, Capitals 0
‘Appalling mass of cars and charabancs… disgorging Women's Institute dames with white crimped hair and legs awry ’, he noted of Forde Abbey.
Things, though, go awry with the food poisoning, and the remaining nuns scramble to bury their dead.
She fought tears after finishing her balance beam routine that went awry from the start. U.S. gymnasts can't overcome miscues, take silver
They understood that he was a liar and from this perspective this plan perhaps went awry and not enough American and British soldiers were inserted into the region because of this.
His job of protecting a rich family soon goes awry. Times, Sunday Times
Things go awry when, during a carefully orchestrated operation to free one of their imprisoned mates, a guard is killed.
Instantly, he let go of Sam, his free hand stilling the clapper, for a bell gone awry could have disastrous consequences for its wielder. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
His departure is more than just a story of one individual's ambition gone awry. Times, Sunday Times
Its forecasts for economic growth and inflation have gone seriously awry in recent years. Times, Sunday Times
Furthermore, there is no management consultant to call if things go awry.
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Then, the movement depended upon moral outlawry to move its agenda forward.
The ethicist is a critic, identifying and assessing research gone awry. Archive 2008-04-01
Her hair was badly done, her skirts were awry, her hands were red.
Some people whose expectations go awry never do get back on their feet.
Obviously little would need to go amiss for the financial plan to go awry.
There is the potential for preparing fish in a spice tea mix to go awry, but the first flake of perfectly poached salmon was a revelation.
Obviously little would need to go amiss for the financial plan to go awry.
Meanwhile, unless his senses were awry from fear and pain, a newcomer had arrived on the scene.
Crucially, they also have access to reliable engineers and supply lines for parts when something goes more badly awry. Times, Sunday Times
His businesses follow a giddy arc and tend to go awry. Times, Sunday Times
In this book, for example, the kids find their Hallowe’en going a bit awry from the start, but the taunting of the class mean girls really kicks the strange happenings into high gear. 13 Picks From The Pumpkin Patch
It would be a bonny thing if, by the escape of one ill - doer another was to go scatheless, and the remeid is to summon the principal and put him to outlawry for the non-compearance. Catriona
This constitutes the prohibited practice of 'outlawry' forbidden by the Texas Constitution, Article 1 Section 20. Newspaper Tree
Alan Wolfe has an interesting essay on liberal hawks (via Jon Chait) that I think winds up going a bit awry by running together humanitarian arguments about the desirability of military intervention in particular (whether or not the arguer wanted to invade Iraq), with national security arguments about the desirability of invading Iraq that were offered by liberals (whether or not the arguer was making any distinctively “liberal” appeals). Matthew Yglesias » Alan Wolfe on Liberal Hawks
But alas, my prediction was awry and Scunthorpe now bear a seemingly unassailable seven-point lead going into Christmas.
Now too much has gone awry, that is out of alignment with our emotional compass. Michael Brenner: Celebrities as Heroes
Leonoa had survived by a blade-thin chance, and even so, she lay four days in a stupor, waking for an evening before lapsing into bone fever, its delirious contortions permanently thwarting her spine's straightness, lengthening one arm and legs, and throwing the plates of her skull awry, gnarling her like a knotgrass doll. Cat Rambo
She rushed in, her face red and sweaty and her hat awry.
Without constant attendance, such arrangements can easily go awry.
Critics of regulation effectively cede the offensive to statists by confining their critique to case studies of regulation gone awry.
His hands were clasped tightly behind his back; above his flushed brow his white hair stood erect from frequent thrustings of his agitated fingers; even his cravat, slightly awry, bore witness to his excitement. The Twenty-Fourth of June
His control of length was awry and Australia's batsmen snuffed out his threat effectively. Times, Sunday Times
Here, a sheepish young yakuza is ordered to kill his insane boss but things go awry when his elder disappears in a town full of loons, zombies, and halfwits.
Levinson wrote: The principle underlying the outlawry of war is this: The law should always be on the moral side of every question. Bruce E. Levine: When the World Outlawed War: David Swanson's New Book
Even though the Fed would be abolished and the gold coin standard restored, there would, at this point, be no outlawry of fractional-reserve banking.
Besides, if there was a pin awry in her dress, he did make such a fuss – and, really, such an active, busy young lady couldn't look always as if she came trim out of a band-box. John Halifax, Gentleman
However, the front handspring went awry, resulting in a 1 1/4 front to her collarbone.
When things go badly awry the people who feel the heat should be the bosses. Times, Sunday Times
Something is definitely awry when we arrive in a third town, four miles further southeast. Times, Sunday Times
There is no sober-minded, fast pace also goes awry; no caution pace, then flat road will fall.
He walked alone, grim-faced, hair awry and eyes glowering.
Gothic masterpiece to serve as a satire of modern celebrity gone horribly awry. Times, Sunday Times
Decked out as a thriller — complete with a heroine thirsting for justice, a wily villain scrambling to stay one step ahead, cross-country chases, and close escapes — it is also another T.C. Boyle story of relationships gone awry, of strong women and the slightly awestruck men who orbit them. New Fiction
Something is going seriously awry when, in a quarter with a general election, the flagship news programme goes down and not up. Times, Sunday Times
Under the common law of England, a judgment of outlawry meant that the outlaw had forfeited entirely the protection of the legal system. Archive 2008-01-27
This practice has gone awry and needs to be fixed," says Alex Sheshunoff, a key consultant who once advised banks to pay, not return, overdrawn transactions. Banks' 'courtesy' loans at soaring rates irk consumers
When society reaches a stage that it gets its kicks by worrying about other people's builders, something has gone badly awry. Times, Sunday Times
The murder of Abel by his brother Cain is a profound tragedy of sibling jealousy and family love gone awry (see pages 11-14). Biblical Literacy: The Most Important People, Events, and Ideas of the Hebrew Bible « Books « Literacy News
They have placed themselves, in that delightful phrase of Norman French, hors-la-loi or, If you will, into a state of outlawry. Time to Give No Quarter
Needless to say, it goes awry. Times, Sunday Times
His businesses follow a giddy arc and tend to go awry. Times, Sunday Times
But both have such an affinity in the wordish consideration, that I think this digression will make my meaning receive the fuller understanding: which is not to take upon me to teach poets how they should do, but only, finding myself sick among the rest, to show some one or two spots of the common infection grown among the most part of writers; that, acknowledging ourselves somewhat awry, we may bend to the right use both of matter and manner: whereto our language giveth us great occasion, being, indeed, capable of any excellent exercising of it. The Defense of Poesy
He had had half a dozen scryers scry out the situation at the city centre, since radars tended to go all awry when it came to the Disruption Fields put up by all starguards and hellguards.
In my experience, it generally takes two weeks for things to go badly awry. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
The strike has sent the plans for investment seriously awry.
This was no craft project gone awry. Smithsonian Mag
Despite the best of efforts of hospital staff, things do go awry.
The rhinoplasty her Daddy bought her for her Sweet Sixteen went horribly awry and left her with a nose looking like something out of Star Trek.
The first post-election caucus meeting would appear to provide an ideal opportunity for MPs to voice private laments about an election gone awry and about the first half-year of Paul Martin's leadership.
Dopamine production goes awry in the brains of Parkinson's patients, leading to the muscle rigidity and tremors associated with the disorder.
The tiles on the floor, although spotless, are all awry.
Apparently they have very important natural functions in the brain but, like everything else, can go awry sometimes - a bit like cells going wrong and turning into cancer.
Together these three witness numerous barbarities, and the more they try to make sense of these brutalities and work toward peace, the more things go awry.
I think the out-takes are pretty revealing because you usually see Jackie getting hurt or something going awry.
Where things go a little awry is when it comes to telling the truth. Lying to be honest
As I cannot persuade myself that you do not intend to come, I urgently request you to reflect, if you have not already started, that the property of those who incurred outlawry with you is being sold, and if you do not arrive within the term conceded by your safe-conduct -- that is, during this month -- the same will happen to yourself without the possibility of any mitigation. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
It's not because they don't like you, it's because that institution needs some recourse should the night go awry.
When he's dealing with his godson freaking out after a pass-the-parcel session gone awry, no bother. Times, Sunday Times
It is actually not such an exercise in glorious outlawry as all that.
People's sense of value and money seems to be seriously awry. Times, Sunday Times
She rushed in, her face red and sweaty and her hat awry.
In other words, one mis-timed move had set off a biomechanical chain reaction of tiny errors that sent the throw awry. Tutoring Trend Reaches the Mound
They call this season bordwo bo'uai ('blowing the petticoats awry'), in reference to the effect of the first strong gales of the south-eastern breeze.
When something feels awry, their agitation mounts, causing real stomach upset and pain.
But that overlooked the possibility that the war might go awry.
My carefully laid plans had already gone awry.
The party tried to hail the steamer in the fog, wishing Lawry to put them on board of her; but her people did not hear their demand, or would not stop for them, and the party were highly incensed at what they called the obstinacy of Lawry. Haste and Waste; Or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain. a Story for Young People
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Human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena — and this predisposition is a by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry Did Christianity Cause the Crash?
Needless to say, it goes awry. Times, Sunday Times
Being sent for education to any Popish school or college abroad, upon conviction, incurs (if the party sent has any estate of inheritance) a kind of unalterable and perpetual outlawry. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
His claes were a 'awry, and he keep't looking ahint him. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
The strike has sent the plans for investment seriously awry.
One possibility, he said, was that his judgment had gone awry because of the pressure of going public. Times, Sunday Times
The figures suggest that something is awry. Times, Sunday Times
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry ... thanks to the flipping volcano! my thymectomy was delayed until the 12th may. .instead of being on 28th april, so TAK may not be there to cheer you on for your brave deed! of course if it gets cancelled I will be hollering and hooting for you at the bottom! London SE1 community website
One unconfirmed report said Hamilton had intended to take the children hostage but that his plan went awry.
I think the out-takes are pretty revealing because you usually see Jackie getting hurt or something going awry.

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