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How to use the word wronged in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The capital is a symbol of their government, and now we’re going to see Russia’s military take it over, this is mostly about bringing Ukraine back to Mother Russia that Putin believes was so wronged by making Ukraine an independent state.

Associated Press

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The people who were negatively affected by a particular event should be involved. If a site reflects the people being honored and their wishes, you're much more likely to make an impact, people find it easier to have empathy for a specific individual. With individualized stories, observers find it easier to connect with the people who've been wronged and say,' I see that this was wrong. What can I do to prevent it from happening again ?'.

Regan Freeman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This will help in proper restitution and compensation for everyone who must have been wronged. I want to assure you, a white paper will be issued. I am going to constitute a committee to review the document between two weeks and bring out a white paper.

Babajide Sanwo-Olu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You guys have been wronged.

Kari Lake

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've seen the circus come to town before, most memorably during the runoff with Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. We watched how 99.9% of the festivities were centered around him, talking about how he was wronged in an election, it was a fraudulent deal, and just creates and sows chaos and confusion as to why people should or shouldn’t show up to vote.

Geoff Duncan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I did hear from the community about things that were going on in professional development, ... I understand the victim-oppression world and White supremacy -- because I am White -- that have wronged people of color for hundreds of years, but in the classroom, we need to be really careful with how we present information.

Di Salvo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’d feel very wronged if we aren’t aware of things and the U.S. government tells us first.

Zhang Huanteng

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think he wronged people and my guess is he thought he could sneak on stage and try a few minutes. I have no idea, I haven’t talked to him. I understand the backlash of it. I suppose he would know that this would get out. and I agree, if he’s going to go on stage he should address [what he did] but also you can’t practice stand-up in front of a mirror. You have to have an audience.

Sarah Silverman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The Pope needs to take responsibility for the actions of Pope John Paul II clergy, although Leo Varadkar hopefully hasn't had any involvement in the abuse, Leo Varadkar is the figurehead for the church, so it's Leo Varadkar responsibility to promise action and retribution for the people who have been wronged.

Aoibhin Meghen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I know they wronged me.

Matt Schrier

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We’re living in a time right now when finally people are having the courage to speak out about being abused, and I think that’s beyond healthy and beyond beautiful to see people finally have a voice for being wronged.

Vince Gill

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The message is that you’re not fully equal. Your family is less than other families, my son has been wronged here by the government.

Andrew Dvash-Banks

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Thank the people who wronged you for the lessons in life

H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
6 years ago

Taxpayers need to know that we will engage in good faith settlement negotiations, where required by third parties, but will look to settle with employees only when they clearly have been wronged or when settlement is otherwise in the veterans ’ and taxpayers ’ best interests, and not as a matter of ordinary business, we’re changing to a culture of accountability at The VA, and this is an important step in that direction.

Veterans Affairs

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There are survivors who find meaning in the criminal justice system, but I think that for many, the chance to have control over a case, to stand up in court, to receive financial restitution from the person who wronged them can be very meaningful to them.

Alexandra Brodsky

Found on CNN
6 years ago

"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from the." The shootist.

John Wayne

added by anonymous
8 years ago

China's exchange rate reform had nothing to do with the global stock market volatility, it was mainly due to the upcoming U.S. Federal Reserve monetary policy move, we were wronged.

Yao Yudong

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We all have a psychological tool kit -- for good, for bad and for how we deal with others, this shows us that if a child sees wrongdoing, focus the attention on who was wronged rather than what the wrongdoer did.

Researcher Keith Jensen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Hath any wronged thee, be bravely revenged. Slight it, and the work?s begun; forgive it, and ?tis finished. He is below himself that is not above an injury.

Francis Quarles

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.

Charles Buxton

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

The Book of the Dead

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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