How To Use Correct In A Sentence

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The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
Other procedures available are otoplasty (ear correction), rhinoplasty, liposculpture, penile enhancement and face, neck and brow lifts to name but a few.

Although the complex has only been open for a couple of months both men are happy they have managed to get the mix of activities correct.
Students should ring the correct answers in pencil.
This is because people who suffer Panic Disorder, when they experience tetany for the first time, often think incorrectly that they are about to die.
Retrieval before additions All records will be in their correct places and the file will be physically as well as logically in sequence.
Stephen Chu wants your children to live worse so that his children can live better — in the world he imagines is the correct one. Why scientists are under-represented in politics. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
inconceivability" is used in the sense of relative inconceivability, it is incorrectly used, unless it is qualified in some way; because, if used without qualification, there is danger of its being confused with inconceivability in its absolute sense. A Candid Examination of Theism
It checks bank account numbers before accepting them and will detect many common transcription errors, including incorrectly entered and transposed characters. Times, Sunday Times
I was telling him about last night and he described me as sounding languid and louche, and consequently correctly guessed that I was still in bed.
The corrector is a modification of the Crank - Nicolson equation.
The correct designation of the early naturalists who tried to reconcile their observations with Genesis is "diluvialist. Vulcanists & Neptunists
He expanded this idea to the propose the ‘deep, hot biosphere’ which both generates methane and adds biogenic signatures to inorganic petroleum, and that part, at least, is looking more correct every year.
If I'm trying to find a contact name and I type "Kab" that means I'm looking for someone whose name starts with or includes those letters; don't autocorrect it to "tab" just because I have someone whose name does include that. Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC Incredible S smartphones – review
I also think that Edwards took certain positions in his 1998 Senate campaign which won't work well in national Democratic politics - particularly, if I remember correctly, supporting right-to-work laws.
The member did not read out correctly either the exact quote of what the Minister said or what is written here on the Order Paper.
Engineers are very anxious to learn of its findings and to begin to correct the faults of the main water supply line from up north in New York State down to the City.
At birth the femoral head and the acetabulum are mainly cartilaginous, and a normal adult hip joint depends on their correct development.
When we checked with the building department, the local inspector told us that the water heater is correctly installed and that the overflow pipe complies with the intent of the building code.
All corrections that affect the whole image, such as color, saturation, level and contrast, should be made first, before starting to edit and retouch more in detail.
Your assessment is substantially correct.
When you pull a needleful through a hole, the wool is correctly positioned on a stretched canvas.
We aim to correct factual errors as soon as we can. The Sun
The treatment will continue until the patient reaches the point where he can walk correctly and safely.
In 1881 Tait published an important paper on the topic in which he showed how to correct the temperature readings because of the high pressures on the thermometers.
I think we have to distinguish those narratives which crudely manipulate fear or repulsion and disgust from that which Lovecraft correctly calls ‘the weird tale’.
In her opinion, it was even money on whether or not he could correctly spell his own name.
The blue plaque marking the spot is incorrect in stating that its dome housed the largest telescope in the world.
Which of the following reproductive structures is incorrectly matched with the group in which it is found? a. zygospore - zygomycetes Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
The chair is also available with adjustable armrests, a height-adjustable backrest and variable seat depths, whereby the active lumbar support is always in the correct position.
Winners will be picked from all correct answers received. Times, Sunday Times
However, they conclude that this is incorrect and that the prosauropods and sauropods diverged early from a common ancestor.
Our programmes were of the highest order, the voices pure and full without this abominable tremolo which is unknown to a person who knows how to sing correctly and naturally. Sixty Years of California Song
We should simply make sure that we correct in the right way. Christianity Today
For example, one of IBM's patents is on the idea of marking text in a word-processor in different colors for correcting.
Did she use to have long hair? Note that the correct spelling is use to, not 'used to'.
Regardless of whether those pessimistic readings of the debate are correct, and of whether the zombie idea itself is sound or incoherent, it continues to stimulate fruitful work on consciousness, physicalism, phenomenal concepts, and the relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility. Zombies
I have always been under the impression that an author must have correct facts to back a story.
While on the subject of that patient, although he does eventually say: Once believed to be rare, the malady, also called celiac sprue, is now recognized more frequently thanks to sophisticated diagnostic tests. the fact remains that fifteen years ago, when this poor lady began her medical misadventures, anyone who even thought of celiac disease would have been -- correctly -- laughed out of the conference room. "How Doctors Think": A Disappointment
Having quite high viscosities near a jet might be very realistic and physically correct. Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit
These two also work to stabilize the legs and help maintain correct knee tracking in exercises like the seesaw lunge so you can maximize the work of the other muscles involved.
Your assessment is substantially correct.
a type of slip of the ear in which people mishear a word and mispronounce it, then insist that the malapropism is correct. Eggcorns: Folk Etymology Creating New Meanings Every Day
Most data sets utilized in the study of hereditary diseases are constructed around probands, making correction for ascertainment bias necessary; this set of data is no exception.
You have the right to see a copy of your file, and to correct any mistakes you may find.
And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
- Some floats would get converted incorrection during research planning causing the LUA for tech research to terminate. 4Players.de News
A percutaneous tenotomy of the Achillis tendon is often necessary to completely correct the equinus.
If you used the shortened form, you'd just say "in-laws' house", but since you're using the full form, it's correct to pluralise the noun and not the modifier ('parents' rather than 'in law'), and then make the entire term possessive, because it's acting as a noun cluster. ("parents-in-law's") The Skinny Kitten Story (In Which I Am Both A Liar And A Kitten Thief)
The present Kew Bridge was opened by King Edward VII and is correctly named "King Edward Bridge".
They are more correct in technique and more venturesome in approach.
Procedures that were set up to expose and correct dishonesty were themselves blocked or shown to be inefficient.
He also worked as a counselor at a juvenile correctional detention centre.
His main concern, he said, was with the division's failure to deliver orders for unbundled lines correctly first time around. Times, Sunday Times
Inappropriate use of the available data could result in prescription of incorrect dosages.
Intel judged the flaw to be minor, hid the truth from customers and quietly went about correcting the problem.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't you say you two knew each other?
Along with his National Security Advisor he should be consolidating intelligence from all sources and digesting it in order to make the correct decisions.
We need to take corrective action to halt this country's decline.
Her children are well schooled in correct behaviour.
Teaching Unions whose members make a pretty penny from invigilating and correcting.
It is perhaps correct to say that Moses actually was descended from Levi, and that the later significance of the name Levite is to be explained by reference to him. Prolegomena
He's very correct in his dress/speech/manner, isn't he?
Winners will be picked from all correct answers received. Times, Sunday Times
The most telling signs were an incorrect horse harness and an error in the cuneiform inscription. Times, Sunday Times
This eliminates the possibility of the wrong person being updated, and enables the operator to see if any details are incorrect.
In this sense, mercy can be thought of as the opposite of grace, or perhaps more correctly - the inverse.
The lady, too, is a votary of the muses; and as I think myself somewhat of a judge in my own trade, I assure you that her verses, always correct, and often elegant, are much beyond the common run of the _lady poetesses_ of the day. The Letters of Robert Burns
The problem has come about because my wife's date of birth was scanned in incorrectly.
The meeting ended with the correct formalities, and barely concealed mutual mistrust. JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
Both Mexico and Canada are angry with the U.S. for the "buy American" provision in Obama's stimulus bill, which they label correctly as "protectionist. Cracks Emerging in NAFTA
One means of correcting this mistake is to graft a limb of an appropriate pollenizer (generally a variety of crabapple) every six trees or so. Pollination
European officials, however, tend to be more confident about their ability to predict, based on theory, likely effects in the future and are somewhat more skeptical of the self-correcting nature of markets.
A butcher stands in the tail of his pigboat like a Venetian gondolier; a pig's head is nailed to the prow, the rest of the carcass laid out in the anatomically correct order down the length of the boat. "Unidentified Objects" by James P. Blaylock
The Safety Board concluded that the incorrect rigging wasn't a significant factor on the preceding flights because weight and balance on those flights were well within limits.
He would murmur a quiet corrective now and then, or insert an informative note, but never parade his learning.
Options B and D are not correct as the word 'aback' means to get startled by something and does not means the same as the word 'back' which is used in the answer choices B and D. LearnHub Activities
It is claimed, probably incorrectly, that in social environments yawning and weariness are due to an accumulation of carbon dioxide.
Creating authentic images depends on coherent focusing, color correction and proper whiteness.
Premium cable - that is, unsponsored channels you pay for separately - doesn't have those constraints and is free to show us conflicts untempered by political correctness.
You must follow correct procedure at all times.
Had Diego Milito's goal in the first leg been correctly ruled out for being sixty-miles offside, or had Barça's totally valid goal not been shambolically dismissed, then Barcelona would have contested the final in Madrid. How do you like your sour grapes, Señor Xavi Hernández? | Richard Williams
The ratio of the titer on BB to that on 594 was then used as a plating efficiency quotient to correct the titers of the recombinants observed on the given lysogen.
Correct and fast reforms in this area would help the country fight corruption more efficiently.
Besides, correction effect of fundamental variables in the model to RMB rate misalignment is also elaborated.
Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. Les Miserables
She is a public-spirited person who is eager to correct the wrongs that we all see but we easily overlook.
Well, then, seriously, melodrama was the correct ticket and all that in 1840, but we've outgrown it; it's devilish demode to chuck things in people's faces. Lady Baltimore
From the time the moderator gives the word, let's say it's "sesquipedalian," until your progeny very slowly spells it correctly, doesn't it seem a lifetime? Undefined
Coronet Foods has been aggressively investigating and taking corrective action.
So, if I show a single qualification or exception, then "unmitigated" is incorrect. Sound Politics: A Trifle Overstated, Professor McKay
How does the counter generate the correct permutation of the binary numerals?
In correct rural circles, having your lawn turfed is regarded in the same light as wearing made-up bow ties.
Sometimes the corrections are amusing exercises in pedantry.
As I entered, checked and rechecked the titles and names, my main concern was spelling and correct typeface and color.
I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, — you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I’ll forswear half-kirtles. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
A good editor never once leaves a misprint uncorrected.
Now the political incorrectness of lighting up has taken the war on cigarettes from the realm of everyday life to a place where the curtain seems set to fall on the art of smoking in public performances.
In addition, while Senator McCain was certainly correct in the debate when he claimed that Colombia and its President, Alvaro Uribe, constitute the U. S.'s number one ally in the region, HRW's new report paints a picture of Uribe as a major obstructer of the process to cut the fatal ties between the Colombian government and the murderous paramilitaries in that country. Dan Kovalik: Obama & Human Rights Watch -- Colombia Must Improve Human Rights
The presence of gastroliths (gizzard stones) in the rib cages of some specimens shows that this view is correct.
Churches should review their classifications and make all necessary corrections now. Christianity Today
The nine-year-old had just spelt the word "sergeant" correctly at her school's spelling bee when her father, a sergeant serving in Iraq, appeared from behind a curtain. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Sometimes, this problem will correct itself as the skin and muscle gradually stretch to become more supple and elastic. The A-Z of Beauty Treatment
Correction of the upward trend early in the history can stop the advent of Diabetes, with all the visual and metabolic problems, even including amputation of limbs.
I believe Whit is correct in asserting that we should teach all our children (male and female) to refuse anything they [[really]] do not want to do — when they are young and when they areolder. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
The sheets would be cut to approximate size, then they would be gathered into groups of three or four, folded in half and trimmed to the correct size.
Fix: PiP ( Picture in Picture ) Blu - ray disc can be read correctly now.
The application of Multimedia CAI courseware in fosbury flop training will help students have a complete and correct notion of the action, and master the skills to improve their performance.
You must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the information that you provide is correct.
Advertisers had argued that to ban the advertisements would be overzealous political correctness.
Her account is correct in every particular/all particulars.
That success proves the methodology we used was correct and that me and my coaching staff were completely right in the way we do things. The Sun
I have a sneaking feeling though, that the only people who managed to get tickets at the correct prices were the agencies who now seem to be awash with them.
In spite of her informality of manner, she was a stickler for correct attire. Times, Sunday Times
Puzzled is technically correct that STS uses 2 OMS to do final insert and circ burns. Mike Griffin Wants His Old Job Back - NASA Watch
Summarising, political correctness is a one-way street: they may use every form of rudeness but we must treat their concerns as sacred; this must be fought.
I remember during the 8-year Bush Presidency, various friends of mine on the Left eviscerated President Bush on every word stumble, misplaced thought, "unpolitical" correct utterance, and his Texas ways many times. The Moderate Voice
I told my mother inlaw since long ago to not spoil Bibi. Kids need to be educate since little, else it's very hard to correct their bad characteristics after 3 years old.
It can have lasting negative effects if not handled correctly. The Sun
In 1998 and 1999, a 17-year-old male held at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center in Powhatan County was investigated by state police for sex offenses with female staff there. Female Prison Staff Offenders in Two-thirds of Sexual Assaults | Impact Lab
Your dentist will likely need to place a crossbite "expander" for a few months to correct that.--very common orthodontic correction. Pacifiers
Ask the investor to check the correctness of what he has written.
Correct breathing helps to clear the mind and reduce tension.
I personally believe that the correct way to help families is through the taxation system.
Had he stated his syllo - gism correctly, the conclusion would be that there is noth - ing left to be doctored. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures
Thread up the second yarn with a long needle or bodkin and thread this second yarn into the correct slot.
If my guess is correct then your problem could be related to ageing or some other cause.
What is the correct way to address her? Times, Sunday Times
He is not only the speed, but also lies in whether we can continue; forward lies not only in speed, but also lies in whether we can maintain the correct direction.
If the phase is incorrect, the main speakers can cancel out some of the bass effect from the subwoofer, and vice versa.
The people may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment,Were it fall to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers of newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Also, I'm pretty sure that his intuition is correct about the unrequited bromance.
It is a scourge to a sinful land; as once it was for the destruction of the whole world, so it is now often for the correction or discipline of some parts of it, by hindering seedness and harvest, raising the waters, and damaging the fruits. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Cosmo writes, “Cosmo is absolutely correct, â€œReaching for hyperbole and shrieking outrage at every turn doesnâ€ ™ t help your argumentâ€.” Paranoia « BuzzMachine
It is an absolute impossibility for one kind of electricity to be generated without an equal quantity of the opposite kind being produced, although it is not strictly correct to use the term generated or produced in relation to electricity, as electricity cannot really be produced by any process whatever. Aether and Gravitation
Problems include overpayments, underpayments and incorrect bank account details appearing on payslips.
All the correct answers had ticks beside them.
A health inspector gave explicit instructions on how to correct the problem.
Correction of craniofacial deficits with implants is a rapidly advancing discipline.
If the distribution channel is selected incorrectly, the brand will decline rapidly.
Sarah Pickin, 23, spotted the ancient piece of "confectionery" during a dig in north-west Finland, but had to check with colleagues whether her hunch was correct or if it was in fact a fossilised piece of animal dung. Student Finds Neolithic Chewing Gum | Impact Lab
I had a momentary image - very clear, very politically incorrect, and very likely brought on by Pam's mention of the cartoon books I'd once drawn for a little sick girl - of a large talking skunk in a beret, Monsieur PepÃ© Le Pew, strutting around my daughter's pension (if that was the word for a bedsitter-type apartment in Paris) with wavy aroma lines rising from his white-striped back. Duma Key
_ -- Most children, if not all, even when they have very early formed R correctly (involuntarily), introduce other sounds in place of it in speaking -- e. g., they say _moigjen_ for "morgen," _matta_ for "Martha," _annold_ for "Arnold," _jeiben_ for "reiben," _amum_ for The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.
We are here to make sure their address is correct so that they can get counted in the census when it comes out next year, "said Tom Boone, a retired firefighter who is working as a" lister "in the central part of Billings. Billingsgazette.com
In our judgment the conclusion reached by the judge, despite the unprecedented passage of time since 1942, was correct.
Circle the correct answer.
It introduced the world to capacitive touchscreens and virtual keyboards and autocorrect and a real mobile web browser.
By the late 19th century, telegraphic signals sent over transoceanic cables enabled clocks to be synchronized worldwide with sufficient accuracy that one had to correct for the delay due to the transmission of the telegraphic signal.
Even analysts who have been busily downgrading tech stocks tend to characterize the rout as a correction, not a long-term trend.
We are trying to make our fortune, or as the French more correctly express it, _Nous corrigous notre fortune_. A Conspiracy of the Carbonari
To forego means “to go before” – the matching fore in forego and before is a handy way to remember the correct form: Forego and forgo
In a test of three keyboards that produce less noise, characters were recognized correctly more than 90 per cent of the time.
I would probably "ground" the audience in tonal conventional music sounds during the real-world part of Zann and move them into atonal "out-there" sounds when that window opens (if I am recalling the story correctly). Lovecraft Paragraphs : The Lovecraft News Network
Where appropriate, significance tests were one-tailed and were corrected by the sequential Bonferroni method to control the Type I error rate.
He had just shown Mummy the letter he had written to Desmond Erb, apologising for correcting him when he wrote about 'the quinone structure'. Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories
Street conversations are good practice, for sure, but people in casual conversations are not going to correct your errors, if only because they are too polite to do so. How to talk like a native in no time
But certain character peculiarities are corrected by helping a person change his writing.
This fusion of political correctness and relevance may be the next big thing to rock mathematics education, appealing as it does to political activists and to ethnic chauvinists.
There is some confusion about what the correct procedure should be.
Conditions such as an uncorrected fracture of the shin bone, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis or Paget's disease can distort the ends of the bones and cause knock knee in adults.
To determine the correct gene structure, we performed a sequence similarity search against the protein database.
As it was Mr. Justice Byrne was quite correct, as the word tabloid had indeed come to be used to mean the "compressed form or dose of anything"; during World War I, a small Sopwith biplane was known as the 'tabloid' within the Royal Air Force, whilst during the Everything2 New Writeups
Times-Union an "initial investigation revealed that someone in the regional office intentionally entered veterans 'claim documents with incorrect dates -- called' backdating '-- into an internal database. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
My bank incorrectly debits a transfer twice from my account, sending me massively overdrawn.
One correction, the wildlife manager says there hasn't been a documented sighting since 1990, but the Honolulu Advertiser noted a wandering wallaby in 2002. Kalihi Wallabies
The digital display is uncomfortably faint to read and often gives incorrect readings. Times, Sunday Times
Milton has the word alabaster three times, twice incorrectly spelled Milton's Comus
Unless there's a specific pitch or bank error you actively want to correct, don't touch the controls.
We are now sanitized and correct, factual and precise, but tragically bereft of relationship.
He believed Mrs Letch probably tried to correct the skid but in doing so steered squarely into the path of the oncoming car.
Five or six small boys, with pea-shooters, and the cornopean player, got up behind; in front the big boys, mostly smoking, not for pleasure, but because they are now gentlemen at large, and this is the most correct public method of notifying the fact. Tom Brown's Schooldays
Likewise, it should be emphasized here that any attempt to compose a historical picture of the Patriarch and his work cannot be considered correct or proven, at least academically speaking, if it is based on the '' censorious '' texts of the time, which in many ways are irresponsible and historically dubious, and which essentially are nothing but libel. Orrologion
Maybe our series provides a corrective to some reality TV. Times, Sunday Times
Cement stucco may last a building's lifetime if applied correctly.
There was considerable confusion in the administration over the correct procedure.
Millionaire stingray tail spousal corporal corrector is stuffed, piscatorially. Archive 2007-06-01
Anyway, the BIG story here is that one honest woman was able to do what pack of university trustees and fellows and so on couldn't or wouldn't do: stop ND's pell-mell pursuit of cozy relations with the politically correct even when it means honoring abortionism's standard bearer. Former Laetare Medalist to deliver address at Notre Dame's commencement
Syph'lis" -- at which he corrects them with offended majesty The Enormous Room
Participants are instructed in the ‘correct’ ways to engage with people of other cultural groups and how to tread carefully around their different values.
Consequently, agricultural bank anti - corruption defeats behoove from correct violate compasses manage grab.
Page 76: 'opprobious' corrected to 'opprobrious'. (in terms opprobrious they mouth). 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts
To use monadic means is difficult to correctly locate hidden water flowing subsided columns.
Given an inner point in the connective area, by means of a reference line, the next connective line segment can be found quickly and correctly.
If you have a semi-detached or terraced house, you will need a party wall specialist surveyor to check the work is done correctly. Times, Sunday Times
The design transaction model and high concurrency control mechanism which guarantee correctness and consistency is the key in PDM.
Politically incorrect from the title on, this guide to old-fashioned coquetry has raised the hackles of every feminist writer worth her salt.
The groups then fell to arguing amongst themselves each insisting its definition was correct and all the others were wrong.
The result is doctors drastically overbook, spend very little time with a patient, and more often than not don't correctly treat the problem. No 'silver bullet' to health care overhaul, Obama says
But these problems don't stop the authors from speculating on the potential applications of anhydrobiosis in humans (somehow assuming that their hypothesis has been proven correct). We are going to freeze dry you all!
We heard the snipers were winning packets of cigarettes for hitting the correct number of targets. Times, Sunday Times
Most contestants abstain after the expert has been successfully called upon unless they are absolutely certain they have the correct answer. Times, Sunday Times
In May my English pen-friend since 1964 corrected my essay grammatically and sent me a small white English New Testament. Baron Pál Podmaniczky and the Norwegian Bible
14 April 2005 @ 11: 37 am no doubt correct ... but I object, because I have no specific term for an easy class, I work out in tennies, not tennis shoes, and I'll use both "kitty corner" and "diagonal" as the mood suits. No doubt correct...
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
If you have already sent your questionnaire in, please resend it to the correct address.
Yes, you did read that correctly.
Management includes correction of fluid and electrolyte levels; avoidance of nephrotoxins; and kidney replacement therapy, when appropriate.

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