mishap

How To Use mishap In A Sentence

• More volunteers follow with lurid tales of domestic mishaps, each earning applause. Times, Sunday Times
• Our trip from Florida to Pennsylvania to attend the Cairn Terrier Specialty Dog Show, was one long series of mishaps, turned into hilarious memories.
• For the crew, however, new locations, the heat and minor mishaps are all part of a day's work.
• The mishaps that befall Van Orton seem more random and jarring, though, than cohesively engineered to facilitate his spiritual development.
• Despite the cheers and applause, the officers had their share of mishaps.
• What we were in was a little mishap. Times, Sunday Times
• It's deliciously grown-up, avoiding slapstick in favour of fortuitous mishap.
• To Madame Hanska he revealed more the cankering disappointment, just as he had a twelvemonth previously, after the mishap of the School for Husbands and Balzac
• He was very cool and calm about the mishap, and didn't shout or lose his temper.
• The rules allow state lawmakers to clear up a mishap if they suffered from a momentary case of stumbly fingers or a lapse in attention. Report: Obama Involved In 1996 Liberal Questionnaire, Despite Campaign's Denials