wide of the mark

Example Sentences

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To the frustration of many, including him too perhaps, that prediction has proved wide of the mark.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

His dire forecasts about global cooling and warming were wide of the mark, a twofer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Any suggestion the second Test was only decided by the coin would be wide of the mark.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024

But to say that disillusionment with the club is the defining reason for his swapping the blue of Leicester to that of Chelsea is wide of the mark.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2024

And also because the vague suspicions — expectations, really — that I’d been forming all day, as Alice tried to transform me into a beauty queen, were so far wide of the mark.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer