CORRECT in a Sentence

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For CORRECT, below is one of 246 sentences:
The correct sentence would have been nine months' detention in a young offender institution, and that sentence would be substituted.

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 Meanings and Examples of CORRECT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
correct
 a.  right; without mistakes
 v.  make right; take out mistakes from
Classic Sentence: (168 in 12 pages)
1  If my view of the case is correct, and I have every reason to believe that it is, this man would rather risk anything than lose the ring.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  There was the dead dog, however, to prove that his conjecture had been correct.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
3  Henceforward the farm was to be known as "The Manor Farm"--which, he believed, was its correct and original name.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
4  I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
5  He hath since come to England, unexpected by his brethren," said Ben Israel; "and he cometh among them with a strong and outstretched arm to correct and to punish.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  But the housekeeper had served Sir Geoffrey for many years, and the dried-up, elderly, superlatively correct female you could hardly call her a parlour-maid, or even a woman.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  They're the mingiest set of ladylike snipe ever invented: full of conceit of themselves, frightened even if their boot-laces aren't correct, rotten as high game, and always in the right.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
8  That proves that what I've always thought about you is correct: you're not normal, you're not in your right senses.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
9  I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  'What he says is quite correct,' observed Blathers, nodding his head in a confirmatory way, and playing carelessly with the handcuffs, as if they were a pair of castanets.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  She was a benevolent, charitable, good woman, and capable of strong attachments, most correct in her conduct, strict in her notions of decorum, and with manners that were held a standard of good-breeding.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  Everything united in him; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world, and a warm heart.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
13  The report that Diggory had brought of the wedding, correct as far as it went, was deficient in one significant particular, which had escaped him through his being at some distance back in the church.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
14  It is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly correct than the official force.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
15  But which of these is correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we shall no doubt find waiting for us.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
16  Increased recruitment of women engineers will help correct the gender imbalance in the profession.
17  Individual pieces of text can be cut and pasted to their correct position.
18  You must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the information that you provide is correct.
19  The correct sentence would have been nine months' detention in a young offender institution, and that sentence would be substituted.
20  By other's faults wise men correct their own.
21  Be careful to perform the actions in the correct sequence.
22  Granted that you are correct, you may find it hard to prove your point.
23  We steered a correct defence policy.
24  Upon the signal, the subjects were asked to recall as many consonants in their correct places as possible.
25  Wearing the correct type of clothing will reduce the risk from radiation.
26  Replace all the pieces in the correct order.
27  Next, smooth off any sharp edges with sandpaper, replace the saddle sections in the correct order and restring.
28  The resource person may correct a serious error and repeat the phrase again but with no trace of disapproval or reproach.
29  Regardless of how often I correct him, he always makes the same mistake.
30  This scientist accessed enormous different files to find the correct information.