MISTAKE in a Sentence

Learn MISTAKE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
319 example sentences for MISTAKE, such as:
1. I took his bag by mistake.
2. I feel bad about the mistake.
3. That was our mistake, comrade.
4. He was loath to admit his mistake.
5. That was how the mistake had arisen.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MISTAKE
mistake
 n.  an understanding of something that is not correct
 n.  a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  "There's no room for a mistake," he answered.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
4  It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
5  That was our mistake, comrade.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
6  That was how the mistake had arisen.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
7  We were shown, unless I mistake, the effort renewed.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
8  His character was not unkind, all things considered; it might have been a very kind one indeed, if he had only made some round mistake in the arithmetic that balanced it, years ago.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
9  I am obliged to you, of all things, for correcting so absurd a mistake.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
10  In reference to the Bank robbery, there has been a mistake made, concerning my mother.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
11  There was no mistake that the woman was in some way in love with him: whatever force we give to the word love.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
12  I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
13  You paint too accurately for mistake.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  Not a hope of imposition or mistake was harboured anywhere.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  I need not say how rejoiced I shall be to hear there has been any mistake, but the report is so prevalent that I confess I cannot help trembling.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
Example Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1  Jack could not account for his foolish mistake.
2  Lauren could not account for her mistake.
3  I made the mistake of giving him my address.
4  He was loath to admit his mistake.
5  He was honest enough to admit his mistake.
6  Even then he would not admit his mistake.
7  It is a great mistake to assume that your children will agree with you.
8  One who never made a mistake, never made anything.
9  The teacher will be down on any little mistake in the article in a moment.
10  I can only assume that it was a mistake.
11  It would be a mistake to assume we've heard the last of this issue.
12  Let's be charitable and assume she just made a mistake.
13  I feel bad about the mistake.
14  I took his bag by mistake.
15  He is too proud to see his own mistake.