How to Use erroneous in a Sentence

erroneous

adjective

• Every serology test is going to produce some erroneous results.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 24 Apr. 2020
• Spokesman Crow said the program has to continue flagging erroneous claims, despite widespread hardship.
  — Cid Standifer, Cincinnati.com, 9 June 2020
• Chase customers across the nation posted on social media about finding errors in their accounts, including erroneous charges and lost funds.
  — Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 28 June 2020
• Walz was asked about his apparently erroneous claim to have been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
• Holyfield is forced into a temporary retirement after a post-fight exam reveals a cardiac disorder, which later turns out to be erroneous.
  — John Scheibe, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• This erroneous word salad — which was widely mocked on social media afterwards — and the rhetoric of the debate in general was top of mind for Ferrell and Steele the next day.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• Correction and update: Yesterday's Bull Sheet contained an erroneous price for Brent crude.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 9 June 2020
• One of the oldest erroneous gender stereotypes is that women are too emotional to be effective leaders, especially in uncertain times.
  — Winny Shen, Harvard Business Review, 16 Sep. 2024
• The erroneous assumption that individuals of African descent were more resilient to yellow fever was used to justify slavery.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2020
• All three of these erroneous features were present in some of the fakes.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• There were erroneous reports all over the place that day.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Sep. 2021
• When scanned, the erroneous tickets do show the correct prize amount won.
  — Nick Hollkamp, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2020
• When the erroneous Facebook posts went viral, Palley was forced to comment on the posts to try to set the record straight.
  — National Geographic, 17 Jan. 2020
• The good news is the vast majority of these were erroneous.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• While most of the erroneous stamps were taken out of circulation, a sheet of 100 was sold to the public.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2023
• Abe's account replied with the same message to the correct Trump message at the same time the erroneous quote tweet was posted.
  — Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 7 June 2018
• One check was deposited into the erroneous account in the amount of $2,762.
  — cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
• Worst of all is that the Inquirer was forced to correct the same erroneous assertion less than a year and a half ago.
  — Corey Deangelis, National Review, 6 Apr. 2021
• Many people still think that exercise will wear out the knee faster, but this is proven to be erroneous.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 12 July 2023
• And why did the media repeat his erroneous data over and over?
  — David Zweig, New Republic, 16 May 2017
• The recording then provides a phone number for the victim to call to return the erroneous refund.
  — Mark Davis, kansascity, 13 Feb. 2018
• An Apple spokesperson said that the ruling from the ITC is erroneous and should be reversed.
  — Mark Gurman, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• Not a single member of the home crowd can rest easy, given the erroneous history of their beloved team.
  — SI.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• Little erroneous details kept pulling me out of the story.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• That’s why, as Rachel Robinson said, the erroneous story of the Reese-Robinson hug does a disservice.
  — Jonathan Eig, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2022
• The erroneous email was also sent to 3,930 applicants who applied a year ago, the statement said.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• Some of those loans may contain erroneous payment counts without any clear sense of how they will be fixed.
  — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2022
• On the whole, the erroneous email is just one of multiple twists and turns for the debt relief proposal, which the White House announced in late August.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Quartz compiled some of the strange ways AI has been shown to screen out job candidates, from the wild and weird to the erratic, the erroneous, and the blatantly biased.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 26 May 2023
• The show's Twitter feed shared the erroneous news and then Trump did, too, without bothering to credit Fox.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 24 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024