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Example sentences for: awry

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Its anti-hero, Hertz Grein, an erudite European refugee and serial deserter of women, turns his back on a secular life gone hideously awry and migrates to Israel, joining the most extreme sect of ultra-Orthodox he can find.
While it's too early to tell if Jones will join the legion of plastic surgery victims, the tabs this month report on attempts at surgical improvement gone awry.
Early reports linked Markhasev to a Russian car-theft ring, but police now say the killing looks like a random robbery attempt gone awry.
In other words, the context was inappropriate: as if one heard his priest say “Goddammit !,” despite the fact that one said it oneself whenever something went awry.
Plan A went awry, however, when the British arrested Kovner as he attempted to leave Palestine.