How To Use Wide of the mark In A Sentence
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I know of several occasions when allegations in newspapers have been well wide of the mark.
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Any criticism that Northern Ireland employed unsporting tactics in the game is well wide of the mark.
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Their predictions turned out to be very wide of the mark.
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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
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the arrow was wide of the mark
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What he told me was quite wide of the mark.
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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
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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
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The opinion polls were hopelessly wide of the mark.
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There are certain days on which one feels oneself particularly wide of the mark; behindhand; in debt; showing a deficit.
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Their predictions turned out to be very wide of the mark.
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The view that the whole nation was in mourning was well wide of the mark.
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The arrow was wide of the mark.
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Two Tinryland shots went agonisingly wide of the mark.
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That comparison isn't as wide of the mark as it seems.
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Yesterday's weather forecast was a little wide of the mark, then.
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Paul Simpson has insisted suggestions Shrewsbury Town have been the "moneybags" club of League Two in 2008-9 are wide of the mark.
Shropshire Star
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But the region's weathermen say predictions of impending blizzard conditions are wide of the mark.
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We could be wide of the mark connecting them to Daddy's scandal.
SUMMER OF SECRETS
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Alan Walsh came close to reducing the deficit but his effort was wide of the mark.
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That comparison isn't as wide of the mark as it seems.
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That comparison isn't as wide of the mark as it seems.
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It’s a shame that the image most of us have of Jewish life in Kazakhstan is so wide of the mark.
Beyond Borat or My Lunch With the Chief Rabbi of Kazakhstan « The Blog at 16th and Q
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A glossy magazine designed to satisfy the CEOs ego may go wide of the mark with the factory workers.
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What I will say, however, is that any tendencies to portray them as a straight fight between good guys and bad guys do appear to be wide of the mark. Real life is always far more complicated.
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Tax breaks for being old, disabled, having a green* car or, I don't know, training for the Olympics or something all seem fair enough but financial incentive to get hitched or stay hitched is just so wide of the mark.
Love and Marriage
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One of the bombs fell wide of the mark.
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the arrow went wide of the mark
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The arrow went wide of the mark.
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His guesses were all very wide of the mark.
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The finance director's role becomes important when a forecast is wide of the mark but this is rare.
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Reports that he can no longer bowl the googly are wide of the mark: Graham Thorpe says Warne bowled him two on Wednesday in the County Championship match at the Rose Bowl.
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The way he would hold a note reminded me at the time of David Bowie, though that now seems wide of the mark.
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The opinion polls were hopelessly wide of the mark.