Sentence examples of "at the wrong time" in English
You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Tu étais simplement au mauvais endroit, au mauvais moment.
She was waiting at the quay as the ship came in.
Elle attendait sur le quai au moment où le bateau rentra.
Admitting what you say, I still think you are in the wrong.
Même en admettant ce que vous dites, je pense toujours que vous avez tort.
We arrived at the airport three hours before our flight.
Nous sommes arrivés à l'aéroport trois heures avant notre vol.
We eat too much of the wrong food and not enough of the right food.
Nous mangeons trop de mauvaise et pas assez de bonne nourriture.
A new museum is being built at the center of the city.
On construit un nouveau musée dans le centre-ville.
Nothing can take an American by surprise. It has often been said that the word "impossible" was not a French one. People have obviously looked in the wrong dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple and mechanical difficulties are overcome before they arise.
Rien ne saurait étonner un Américain. On a souvent répété que le mot "impossible" n’était pas français; on s’est évidemment trompé de dictionnaire. En Amérique, tout est facile, tout est simple, et quant aux difficultés mécaniques, elles sont mortes avant d’être nées.
He left his hometown at the age of fifteen never to return.
Il quitta sa ville natale à l'âge de quinze ans pour ne jamais revenir.
Admitting what he says, I still think that he is in the wrong.
Même en admettant ce qu'il dit, je continue de penser qu'il a tort.
You might as well read a novel instead of staring at the ceiling.
Tu ferais tout aussi bien de lire un roman plutôt que de contempler le plafond.
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