How to Use erroneous in a Sentence

erroneous

adjective

• 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
• In the two crashes, MCAS kicked on due to an erroneous sensor reading and pushed the plane’s nose downward.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Don’t trot out the tired and often erroneous excuse about the Chargers being unlucky.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• The team also introduced small bugs to some of the programs and found that Twist can detect those bugs and reject the erroneous programs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2022
• And that lack of data might lead to erroneous conclusions.
  — Mihir Sharma, Twin Cities, 4 July 2024
• In its statement, CBP said the cost estimates are erroneous.
  — Greg Moran, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Given the number of erroneous beliefs about wine that persist, this could have been an epic feast lasting for weeks.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• The order came in response to a decision by Twitter the same week to mark two of his erroneous tweets with fact-checking labels.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
• Checking for fraud Be careful with this one, because there are a lot of erroneous reports during the election season.
  — John Brandon, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
• Democrats have accepted a progressive platform, ignoring decades worth of change and focusing on erroneous issues.
  — J. Marcos Peterson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024