BLUNDER in a Sentence
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70 example sentences for BLUNDER, such as:
1. She had somehow made a blunder.
2. Success covers a multitude of blunders.
3. She blundered when she added up the bill.
4. I fear lest we commit an inexcusable blunder.
5. The criminal's fatal blunder led to his capture.
2. Success covers a multitude of blunders.
3. She blundered when she added up the bill.
4. I fear lest we commit an inexcusable blunder.
5. The criminal's fatal blunder led to his capture.
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Meanings and Examples of BLUNDER
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blunder
v. make one's way clumsily or blindly
v. commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1 He saw his blunder before she could take it up: she wanted sympathy, not consolation.
2 She had somehow made a blunder.
3 In another plate, the prodigious blunder is made of representing the whale with perpendicular flukes.
4 Notwithstanding the Hurons were necessarily ignorant of the little channels among the eddies and rapids of the stream, they knew the common signs of such a navigation too well to commit any material blunder.
5 The big eyes told Tom his blunder and he stopped, confused.
6 He made several efforts to creep out of his scrape, but the old man's eye was upon him and he made blunder after blunder.
7 A frightened look in Becky's face brought Tom to his senses and he saw that he had made a blunder.
8 Did an opinion chance to be expressed concerning billiards, on that subject too he was at least able to avoid committing a blunder.
9 Mack loses a whole army, the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduke Karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder.
10 But when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks.
11 Mr. Bhaer stood by, watching her blush and blunder, and as he watched, his own bewilderment seemed to subside, for he was beginning to see that on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
12 Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it.
13 The despairing way in which my mother and I look at each other, as I blunder on, is truly melancholy.
14 But, probably from the mental fatigue he was beginning to feel, he made a blunder in speaking of the trial, and this blunder he recalled several times with vexation.
15 He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the bench by the Gladiator.
Example Sentence:
1 Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
2 I think he made a tactical blunder by announcing it so far ahead of time.
3 I fear lest we commit an inexcusable blunder.
4 He said that the tax was a major political blunder.
5 The criminal's fatal blunder led to his capture.
6 Instead, Mr Blomkamp's ramshackle film doesn't quite focus on anything, but blunders around from one gory shoot-out to the next without stopping to say anything coherent about robotics, law enforcement, South Africa or anything else.
7 Success covers a multitude of blunders.
8 She blundered when she added up the bill.
9 He blundered about in the dark, feeling for the light switch.
10 Police blundered by not releasing more details about the case to focus public interest.
11 He had innocently blundered into a private dispute.