blunder

How To Use blunder In A Sentence

• Blunders made by the Coalition Provisional Authority -- disbanding the Iraqi army, dissolving the Baath party, failing to stop the lotting -- are not the main problem. Jonathan Steele: Why the Democrats Should Use the "Defeat" Word
• Twitter users shared video clips of his blunder. The Sun
• After much blundering and backing, it stopped at the door: rolling heavily from side to side when its other motion had ceased, as if it had taken cold in its damp stable, and between that, and the having been required in its dropsical old age to move at any faster pace than a walk, were distressed by shortness of wind. American Notes for General Circulation
• In other words, forgiveness is for real sin, not for foibles, mistakes, excusable blunders, and things we can't help.
• It took the intervention of the media, and the consequent uproar to stop what would have been a truly monumental blunder.
• They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs. Christianity Today
• Yet, more serious is the blunder in his statement "the Finzi-Continis moved out of society altogether and began to cultivate what B's father sees as absurd pretensions to nobility (the name Finzi-Contini in Italian actually suggests 'fake little counts'). Bassani's Father
• So I slipped through the flies, blundered through the warren of half-remembered alcoves and out the stage door.
• The guileless McKenzie is of course immune, as he blunders through a palsied old world.
• The term escalate became popular during the Vietnam War and refers to the United States' significantly increasing its involvement, but the term also carries an undertone of blunder. Site Home