wide of the mark

How To Use wide of the mark In A Sentence

• I know of several occasions when allegations in newspapers have been well wide of the mark.
• Any criticism that Northern Ireland employed unsporting tactics in the game is well wide of the mark.
• Their predictions turned out to be very wide of the mark.
• misremember," jumble, and confuse the whole allegory, but he so misapprehended its meaning in many points, that the lessons taught and the morals drawn were very wide of the mark indeed. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers
• the arrow was wide of the mark
• What he told me was quite wide of the mark.
• There are some worrying grey areas that merit sensible debate, but the various hysterical claims made by editors – about judge-made law, the inadequacies of the ECHR, the bypassing of the British parliament, the need for a British bill of rights and the chilling effect on investigative journalism – are well wide of the mark. Editors tangle with the zip code
• Assumptions that the culprit was the Stoke City fan Malcolm Clarke, viewed by many of his peers in the FA council as its most rumbustious member, would be wide of the mark. Football League clubs debate wage restraint to curb losses
• The opinion polls were hopelessly wide of the mark.
• There are certain days on which one feels oneself particularly wide of the mark; behindhand; in debt; showing a deficit.