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be unsuccessful
Where do today's public schools fail?
The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably
How To Use go wrong In A Sentence
- You can't really go wrong with a loaf of wholemeal organic bread, but as much as I love the UK I find it difficult to get remarkable fresh bread.
- If anything can go wrong, it will.
- My fear it would go wrong again was overwhelming. The Sun
- And then inevitably something would go wrong, and it would end in acrimony and sometimes in lawsuits.
- If anything can go wrong, it will.
- As I tried to justify the unjustifiable I told myself that since I had Martin for a chaperon nothing could possibly go wrong. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- Women are left to give birth alone and when things go wrong they are not aided. Times, Sunday Times
- The telephone's influence is so pervasive that only when things go wrong with the technology - for example, a thunderstorm renders it inoperative - do our problem of isolation becomes apparent.
- This detector is a very delicate instrument; it'll go wrong if it's mishandled.
- However, this approach identifies the problem in only a relatively small proportion of the many cases where things go wrong in health care.