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Sentences starting with correct

Correct writers of the American language do not put an before three words. [5]
Correct me, sir, if I misunderstood you. [5]
Correct me, sir, if I am wrong. [5]

Sentences ending with correct

The snow-white bird, with the yellow head, scratched seventeen times before Xanthe, and, on reaching Mopsus, twenty-three times, which was perfectly correct. [10]
Her first impressions were correct. [11]
Your suggestions as to placing one's self on the offensive rather than the defensive are certainly correct. [7]
Kutuzov's expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, and also that Murat's mistake would very soon be discovered, proved correct. [2]
Massi noticed that the articles taken out could scarcely be intended for a man's use, and, pointing to a piece of Flanders velvet, he gaily remarked: "So my guess was correct. [10]
An Englishman is self-assured, as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world, and therefore as an Englishman always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. [2]
He is not precisely what might be termed a mild man, if what we hear is correct. [9]
Or was he one of those men who are always making blunders for other people to correct? [6]
With the exception of these errors, the distinguished guest's statement of the case is substantially correct. [5]
The botanical errors occurring in the last volume I was able to correct. [10]

Short sentences using correct

He says it is correct. [5]
That's the correct idea. [5]
Could that be correct? [5]
Yes, you are correct. [5]
The portrait is correct. [5]
The idea was correct. [5]
His judgment is correct. [5]
The supposition was correct. [10]
But art will correct nature. [10]
His foreboding had been correct. [10]

Sentences containing correct two or more times

If at any time you find it necessary to correct your brother, do not correct him with mud--never, on any account, throw mud at him, because it will spoil his clothes. [5]
All correct, too, all correct. [5]

More example sentences with the word correct in them

If the American young man and young woman get it into their heads that repose, especially of manner, is the correct thing, they will go in for it in a way to astonish the world. [4]
It is for you, the great Master, not for me, the overworked, bungling amateur, to correct the work of talented pupils. [10]
By the figures you send, which I presume are correct, the twelve districts represented fall into two classes of eight and four respectively. [7]
And if you wish to use it, will you set it up now, and send me three proofs?--one to correct for Atlantic, one to send to Temple Bar (shall I tell them to use it not earlier than their November No. [5]
The correct case will then stand: the quotas of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth districts fixed at 2200 for the first draft. [7]
According to Smith, who is probably correct in this, the fire did not occur till five or six days after the arrival of the ship. [4]
With an instinct, which proved correct, he opened the door leading into the old kitchen, and there, tied, and with pale faces, but in no other sense disordered, were Sheila and her mother. [11]
And only now when I am living, or at least trying" (Pierre's modesty made him correct himself) "to live for others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. [2]
The old knights were so proud of these names that if a burgher called them by their right ones they would correct them. [5]
To attach much weight to the few but strong differences is the most obvious and perhaps the safest course, though it appears more correct to pay great attention to the many small resemblances, as giving a truly natural classification. [1]
The only thing we need to do now is to correct our imagination, which has been led astray. [4]
Looking intently that way one night, he plainly distinguished an eye gleaming and glistening at the keyhole; and having now no doubt that his suspicions were correct, he stole softly to the door, and pounced upon her before she was aware of his approach. [12]
His one desire was to know what was happening and at any cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, an exemplary officer of twenty-two years' service, who had never been censured, should not be held to blame. [2]
Such accuracy, it was sometimes whispered, required absolutely perfect adjustment, and what would happen when the great inventor--"the poet in steel," as Clemens once called him--was no longer at hand to supervise and to correct the slightest variation. [5]
They said it was not true, and asked me to correct it. [5]
If Mr. Vallandigham was not damaging the military power of the country, then his arrest was made on mistake of fact, which I would be glad to correct on reasonably satisfactory evidence. [7]
Its declared purpose was "simply to instruct the young, reform the old, correct the town, and castigate the age. [4]
Those persons are uninteresting, certainly, who have gone so far in culture that they accept conventional standards supposed to be correct, to which they refer everything, and by which they measure everybody. [4]
Please ascertain the truth, correct what is found wrong, and telegraph me. [7]
She admonished me, too, against liquor-drinking, and whatever capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I may have attained through life, I attribute to having complied with her pious and correct wishes. [5]
She was dressed to please her own fancy, evidently, with small regard to the modes declared correct by the Rockland milliners and mantua-makers. [6]
His rule appears to have been to state just so much of the truth as would leave on the mind of his readers a correct impression, at the least cost of pain to the sensitive folks he was writing about. [5]
My idea was to do the work over according to the law, in presence of the complaining party, and thereby to correct anything which might be found amiss. [7]
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. [7]
She began, also, to consider whether it might not be well to avail herself of Mrs. Smith's kind invitation, with a view to the convenience of being on the spot to correct the proofs. [14]
The Scientist hastened to Concord and told Mrs. Eddy what a disastrous mistake had been made, but he found to his bewilderment that she was tranquil about it, and was not proposing to correct it. [5]
Let me tell this audience what is true in regard to that matter; and the means by which they may correct me if I do not tell them truly is by a recurrence to the speech itself. [7]
Only by understanding there are not two, matter and mind, is a logical and correct conclusion obtained by either one. [5]
I will correct them--not the Facts, but the Verdicts--striking out such clauses as could have a deleterious influence on the Other Side, and replacing them with clauses of a more judicious character. [5]
The people compared them with what they had seen; and, thus measured, thus judged, the boats were magnificent--the term was the correct one, it was not at all too strong. [5]
It is for the world to correct, to adjust, to organise, to regulate the working of the truth. [11]
I refer to the use of dioptric media which correct the diminished refracting power of the humors of the eye,--in other words, spectacles. [6]
He supposed that the statements made by the gentleman from Virginia to show this were all entirely correct in point of fact. [7]
The quality of the notes is very musical; and I do not doubt that a good violinist would be able to give a correct idea of the gibbon's composition, excepting as regards its loudness. [1]
Please inquire into the matter and correct anything you may find amiss if in your power. [7]
I don't think the fellows that write such criticisms as you tell me of want to correct your faults. [6]
It is surely the correct idea. [5]
The only manuscript that we ever held of his, longer than to correct it, was one of perhaps a dozen pages, most of which we had composed. [5]
Don't you reckon that the people that made the books knows what's the correct thing to do? [5]
I almost regretted that my theory about the well's trouble was correct, because I had another one that had a showy point or two about it for a miracle. [5]
I am anxious that it should 'boom'--that is the correct term, is it not?--and a sensation is good for 'booming. [11]
These vagaries of taste, which disfigure or destroy correct proportions or hide deformities, are nowhere more evident than in the illustrations of works of fiction. [4]
I am very sure it was Captain Coram, but I almost hope it was somebody else, in order to give some poor fellow who is lying in wait for the periodicals a chance to correct me. [6]
If a popular superstition is correct, I was predestined to journey. [10]
Was there ever such a mother as Kit's mother, on her son's showing; or was there ever such comfort in poverty as in the poverty of Kit's family, if any correct judgment might be arrived at, from his own glowing account! [12]
Then the United States sternly rebuked the Secretary for disregarding the "instructions," and warned him to correct his ways. [5]
The most correct standards of pronunciation will be inculcated by precept and example. [6]
This thought partially soothed him, especially as, if correct, it would be possible for him to recover the ornament. [10]
I have had some tables made out, which I have every reason to believe are correct so far as they go. [6]
But you have some definite idea in your mind and, if my inference is correct, it would cause me pain. [10]
When a man risks his life to save that of a fellow-creature, it seems also more correct to say that he acts for the general good, rather than for the general happiness of mankind. [1]
I claim the right to correct misstatements, and have so corrected the color of the water in the above recapitulation. [5]
He had pat replies ready to correct me when called upon, and 'twas only out of consideration for Mr. Carvel that I kept my hands from him when we were dismissed. [9]
If some statistics recently published are correct, Homoeopathy has made very slow progress in Europe. [6]
I am quite ready to admit that this is the correct explanation in many instances, as in those figured by Prof. Meyer, in which there are several minute points, or the whole margin is sinuous. [1]
I could not publicly correct it before the play appeared in New York, because that would look as if I had really said that thing and then was moved by fears for my pocket and my reputation to take it back. [5]
The above average proportion of 110.1 to 100 is probably nearly correct in the case of the greyhound, but whether it would hold with other domesticated breeds is in some degree doubtful. [1]
If I have overstated the case, please correct me. [9]
Leaving the Expedition outside to rest, I quartered myself in the chalet, with Harris, proposing to correct my journals and scientific observations before continuing the ascent. [5]
The unprofessional experimenter or observer has no large experience to correct his hasty generalization. [3]
That was easy, only it was difficult to remember when she came into the house the correct positions of the stars in the heavens. [4]
With my appreciation of your ability and correct principle, of course I would be very glad to have your service for the country in the approaching political canvass; but I fear we cannot properly have it without separating you from the military. [7]
No one ignorant of the western country of Tasmania can form a correct idea of the traveling difficulties. [5]
O ye belles of Newport and of Bar Harbor, in your correct and conventional agreement of what is proper and agreeable, are you wasting your sweet lives by rule? [4]
And a lady of New York (a city whose dialect the novelists are beginning to satirize) was much disturbed by the flatness of speech prevailing in Chicago, and thought something should be done in the public schools to correct the pronunciation of English. [4]
The above resume of his biography I believe to be substantially correct, although it is possible that he may have died once or twice in obscure places where the event failed of newspaper notoriety. [5]
It is, however, now well ascertained to have been all true; and although some blame Mr. Stewart for having violated his oath, they no longer attempt to deny that his revelations were correct. [5]
Put he would not relinquish what he had once firmly determined and proved to himself by reasoning to be the correct course. [10]
If it has not encouraged it, has it done much to correct it? [4]
The postman had not delivered it on his rounds, because the address was not correct. [11]
We know how nearly impossible it is for one person to convey to another a correct impression of a third person. [4]
See sketch from my pencil; [Figure 7] it is in the main correct, though I think I have foreshortened one end of it a little too much, perhaps. [5]
His attitude was most favorable to correct conclusions. [7]
To feed with more than a few indifferent crumbs a plebeian appetite for personal details about Personages in her class was not the correct thing, and she blandly points out that there is Precedent for this reserve. [5]
It is, however, more correct to speak of the latter principle as the standard, and not as the motive of conduct. [1]
You'll find the money quite correct, I think. [12]
When those frozen minutes have come to us, I've tried to remember the correct religious etiquette, but I've not had much practise since I stayed with Aunt Melissa, and lived on skim-milk and early piety. [11]
But still Francois might bring all the epitaphs to him before they were carved, and he would approve or disapprove, correct or reject, as the case might be. [11]
If, by any means, I have ever used language which could fairly be so construed (as, however, I believe I never have), I now correct it. [7]
That seems to me the correct way, and I don't relinquish the hope of winning for it the approval of the greatest general and most tasteful connoisseur of life. [10]
No, don't interrupt me quite yet; you do want to know whether your hypothesis is correct. [6]
In this letter Mark Twain made the usual mistake as to the title of the Greeley farming series, "What I Know of Farming" being the correct form. [5]
If I have made any mistakes, correct me. [5]
He mapped out Luigi's character and disposition, his tastes, aversions, proclivities, ambitions, and eccentricities in a way which sometimes made Luigi wince and the others laugh, but both twins declared that the chart was artistically drawn and was correct. [5]
All his life long he labored diligently and lovingly to correct them. [6]
Mr. Rogers had long enough vision ahead to say, "Your books have supported you before, and after the panic is over they will support you again," and that was a correct proposition. [5]
Boston is just like other places of its size;--only perhaps, considering its excellent fish-market, paid fire-department, superior monthly publications, and correct habit of spelling the English language, it has some right to look down on the mob of cities. [6]
But now, at last, came Rawlinson, the youngest of all the scholars, with a translation which was immediately and universally recognized as being the correct version, and his name became famous in a day. [5]
Locke, whose medical knowledge is borne witness to by Sydenham, had the good fortune to form a correct opinion on a disease from which the Earl of Shaftesbury was suffering, which led to an operation that saved his life. [3]
But let me know, right away, for I want to correct this thing before it grows stale again. [5]
I understand the Judge to be altogether right about that; I understand that part of the history of the country as stated by him to be correct I recollect that I, as a member of that party, acquiesced in that compromise. [7]
I only mention it now, that I may hereafter assume this to be the true construction of his answer, if he does not now choose to correct me. [7]
Some of it is very funny, --almost as funny, perhaps, as what you and I produce when we try to write in a language not our own; but much of it is surprisingly correct and free. [5]
But the statement is not correct. [7]
If my theory is correct, what I have given him may tide over that danger, but only on one condition can he continue to live and become a useful member of society. [9]
If the figure is correct, it in no way justifies Gratiolet's conclusion: "Il y a donc entre ces cerveaux [those of a Callithrix and of a Gibbon] et celui du foetus humain une difference fondamental. [1]
This, I know, is a mistaken impression; and you must correct it. [7]
Thirty years ago Irving was much read in America by young people, and his clear style helped to form a good taste and correct literary habits. [4]
The mental state involving utter confusion of different generations in a person yet capable of forming a correct judgment on other matters, is almost a direct transcript from nature. [6]
Miss Russell, whose intuitions are usually correct, does not believe this. [9]

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