MISTAKE in a Sentence
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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.
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.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of MISTAKE
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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
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
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
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
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
5 That was our mistake, comrade.
6 That was how the mistake had arisen.
7 We were shown, unless I mistake, the effort renewed.
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.
9 I am obliged to you, of all things, for correcting so absurd a mistake.
10 In reference to the Bank robbery, there has been a mistake made, concerning my mother.
11 There was no mistake that the woman was in some way in love with him: whatever force we give to the word love.
12 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
13 You paint too accurately for mistake.
14 Not a hope of imposition or mistake was harboured anywhere.
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.
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.