How To Use Mistake In A Sentence

Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
In this edition, such mistakes are corrected, and the original errata slips are also published.
This carefully-worded document rehearsed the arguments for making the joint award, while carefully avoiding any admission of the original mistake.
It's a common mistake.
The danger in Iraq is repeating the biggest mistake - yielding to gradualism.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. Bill Clinton
She'd forgotten that for the next few weeks she'd be sleeping only feet away from the man she'd mistakenly raged at earlier.
So I expose them to the objective complement and the compellative, and then stand aghast at their behavior when they make all the mistakes that can possibly be made in using a given number of words. Reveries of a Schoolmaster
He was concerned that mistakes could be made which could cost the public money and wanted to know if the systems employed had been properly calibrated and checked.
Similarly, I might make a similar mistake with the Andy Warhol.
And sometimes those mistakes wind up back to back on a Sunday afternoon.
We also believe that practically any country that degrades women or any country that cuts them off from the vital life of the country is making a very big mistake.
The exhibition is testimony to the common themes that bind them and yet the unmistakeably individual genius and style of each.
When mistakes are made a full apology is often less damaging than a grudging admission that events have not gone as planned.
Its markings were unmistakeable, as were the large, soulless, jet black eyes.
Then, the phrase had struck Vincent as doting and naive, but sometime during his stay in Toulio, as his grasp of the Chinese language deepened, and as he learned—or was forced to learn—from his mistakes, he had felt the title gain merit and accuracy. Heaven Lake
"I think that is a huge mistake on at least three counts."
Most people would probably mistake them for small flies, such as gnats or midges.
The dead men could have been the victims of mistaken identity. Their attackers may have wrongly believed them to be soldiers.
They have said to me that they were mistaken to think it could work.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi
Hoping the government will provide a decent state pension is a mistake.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. Ansel Adams
Calliaud, and by arguments and reasons by him delivered, he was persuaded to unsay his swearing, and to declare that he believed that the affidavit which he made at Patna, and while the transaction was recent or nearly recent, must be a mistake: that he _believed_ (what is amazing indeed for any belief) that not Mr. Hastings, but he himself, interpreted. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
Mares which are in the ambivalent early stages of estrus or which are mistakenly in diestrus pose a clear safety threat in close quarters. TheHorse.com News
Offending drivers are to be pulled over as part of a pilot scheme and ‘given advice’ rather than booked, on the basis that it is pointless fining people for innocent mistakes.
Well, I'm domd – axin yore pardin fur takkin th 'liberty; it's a habit: I've gotten – but I be an' no mistake. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
It was an understandable mistake when the request was made by phone.
The heavy-handed allusiveness may just be an aesthetic mistake, a secondary flaw we have to countenance while otherwise acknowledging the narrative power of the novel as a whole. Translated Texts
It's a mistake to think of Florida only in terms of its tourist attractions.
Dio Cassius can scarcely be mistaken when he says that Tyre and Sidon were "enslaved" -- i.e. deprived of freedom -- by Augustus, [14477] who must certainly have revoked the privilege originally granted by Pompey. History of Phoenicia
You have the right to see a copy of your file, and to correct any mistakes you may find.
In other words, forgiveness is for real sin, not for foibles, mistakes, excusable blunders, and things we can't help.
I suggest you tell him there was a mistake over his late booking.
It's a mistake they almost always make.
You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love. As long as you keep your hand curly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers around it and try to possess it, it will spill through the first cracks it finds. This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love. They try to posses it, they demand, they expect and just like the water spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you.
Let's see if we can play the whole piece through without a mistake.
The worthies on the committee also attempted to explain why those mistakes - in surveillance, in intelligence-gathering, analysis and co-ordination - were made.
No, I am not saying that these three popular role models, who were exploited by Home Trade to make suckers out of the common man, must be punished for their silly mistake.
I can only hope there has been some mistake.
One means of correcting this mistake is to graft a limb of an appropriate pollenizer (generally a variety of crabapple) every six trees or so. Pollination
The mistake was Team McCain not insisting upon its own team of watchers / video to resplice all that hit the cutting room floor at CBS. Ace of Spades HQ
I found myself a few minutes ago, by mistake, on a lolcats website. The lolcat is the essential representation of the malaise of contemporary life: people with too much time on their hands and no idea how to use it.
Man might think that he's the most intelligent life form on earth but this is simply a dreadful mistake.
The bill does not propose to impose a ceiling on the level of interest rates that can be charged by loan companies, which some organisations feel is a mistake.
I have long claimed that this conceivability is only apparent; some misguided philosophers think they can conceive of a zombie, but they are badly mistaken. nullasalus: Blurring the Line
Everybody makes a mistake once in a while.
It can only prey on offensive mistakes or inattention.
It's your decision, but I warn you - you're making a mistake .
I hope therefore that she will accept my opinion that she made a mistake and act accordingly.
He works slowly and precisely whereas I tend to rush things and make mistakes.
Hedman's mind has been more robust than his body, his self-confidence undented by his high-profile mistakes.
He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings.
Clyde must have mistaken violent outbursts to mean outbursts of violence rather than intense, brief tantrums. DO NO HARM
Apparently I had dialed the phone number of the local police station by mistake, oops.
Voyeurism should never be mistaken for reality, because the reality of those horrors is only truly experienced by those living through them -- either the victims or those piecing together their "story" for the judicial system. When Reality Intrudes
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. Denis Waitley
Sorry I most likely do have quite a few grammar mistakes and so on.
It is such a mouth as we can imagine some remorseless inquisitor to have had -- that is, not an inquisitor filled with holy zeal for what he mistakenly thought the cause of Christ demanded, but a spleeny, envious, rancorous shaveling, who tortured men from hatred of their superiority to him, and sheer love of inflicting pain. Andersonville — Volume 1
Some authors have said that an English name for ajowan is lovage, but this is a mistake, although both plants belong to the same family.
Even if these accounts are false or mistaken, surely they deserve some mention?
I picked up the wrong bag by mistake.
They say reporting suspected illegals over the Web will result in people being mistakenly fingered, or let people with a grudge turn in innocent victims.
They're saying it was a group of rogue scientists making a dreadful mistake.
We never learn from our mistakes and we are all, at any moment, standing at the edge of chaos.
The fact is that the LSC's mistakes were simply human errors, compensation for which was adequately reflected in the offer of £50 by way of botheration payment.
This kind of undisciplined thought, or rather feeling, that mistakes a wish for a fact and leads to foolish policy decisions corrodes the soul of modern man.
But he is mistaken in believing that most voters will come to their own conclusions.
We wanted to eliminate rehandling, which is costly and can lead to mistakes.
She insists her mistake was due to the way the word was pronounced by the presenter, and she is determined to get to the top next year.
And another big one, of course, is the growing number of people who have no family doctor and no hope of getting one, either, because years ago the government (composed of people who NEVER make any mistakes) decided there were too many doctors and limited enrollment in med schools across the country. ProWomanProLife » Abortion politics in the USA
We do need to finally lay the dead to rest, to accept that mistakes were made that cannot be unmade, and to accept that the ‘blame game’ at this point in our history would be a futile exercise.
Any economic reform, he said, faced false starts and mistakes.
For the stupid person up there that wrote "the failure of 08 begins" I can tell you that's exactly the opposite: "the recover 08 begins", no more Bush mistakes and his heir is going to be defeated big time, is going to be a victory by a huge margin!!! Obama: The general election fight should start next week
Mr. Cuthill states that it is a mistake to pack them in dry sand or earth for the winter; and that the same may be said of parsnips, carrots, salsify, scorzonera, and similar roots. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
she kindly overlooked the mistake
A trainee controller mistakenly directed a plane to descend through the flight level of another plane.
Exercise certainly helped, and I think my initial mistake was not attending the boxercise class that morning. The Monster Retires to Its Cave
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. Groucho Marx
Mistakes also tend to figure highly and sometimes those mistakes can prove to be very costly.
In case there is any mistake, Dawkins gives the example of a permanent dune - a barchan - that the wind pushes across the desert but which maintains it shape even while individual grains of sand are being blown into and out of the dune. May 6th, 2009
Not only this, but, fortified by the fact that I had drunk his lager by mistake, Ken managed to hit the winning double in the second leg of the last match.
The data recovery of hard disk software failure can be solved by the following ways, the recovery of main boot partition, partition table, DBR, zero track and the file deleted by mistakes.
They confessed themselves to have made a great mistake.
When, for example, Karl and I made the simulation more realistic and allowed for mutations, or mistakes in an evolving population of players, then we saw cooperation and defection wax and wane over time, as those with a good reputation are actually undermined by indiscriminate altruists who help anyone, no matter how well or badly the latter have behaved in the past. SuperCooperators
Electric lighting was such a powerful symbol of progress that early lighting fixtures proudly flaunted bare bulbs so that no one would dare mistake them for gaslights.
A lot of mistakes I see are a lack of cover letter, and an objective statement on the resume that is all wrong for the job opening, " says Lindsay Olson, partner and recruiter at Paradigm Staffing.
A similar ‘group hysteria,’ he adds, gripped hundreds of birders in California, who for days mistakenly took a skylark for a Smith's longspur.
His management trademark is carrying index cards in his shirt pocket so that he can note mistakes while visiting Darden restaurants.
The failing to do this is the greatest mistake of the present generation, for if girls be capable of nothing but morbid sentiment or what we term flirtation, they will naturally look to matrimony as their destiny and as a means of support -- a self-abasement from which no woman can fully recover, even under the most favorable circumstances. How to Train Girls.
They came to the conclusion that they had made an unforgivable mistake.
Unfortunately, unless I'm mistaken, the on / off switch for that has disappeared from Blogger's publishing dashboard.
Even if the mistakes are forgiven, can one forgive the repetition of the same mistakes over and over again?
Humberside Police had also deleted some of the unproven allegations from their files in the mistaken belief that this was required by the Data Protection Act.
He maintained that he had no money to pay the ransom demanded and that it was a case of mistaken identity.
gentled" him all over his miserable frame, as he lay panting and overpowered on the sawdust, conquered and convinced at last, all his mistakes and misconceptions of other people came before him, as plainly as if Taffy himself had spoken them; so plainly, that he wondered at himself. Parables From Nature
I've paid this bill twice by mistake.
It might include acknowledging your own mistakes, such as casually floating that $900 billion figure which forced House and Senate leaders to backload key provisions in the final bill. Harold Pollack: Some Unsolicited Advice for Howard Dean, and for President Obama, Too
It is a wise man that makes no mistakes.
The best of us can make mistakes.
What we call his mistake is in that he regarded "homogeneousness" as negative. The Book of the Damned
Experience is the na me give their mistakes.
She is innocent; it was a case of mistaken identity.
Historicists often emphasize that behind such mistaken theories there is usually an apologetic purpose.
Blame, attack, fear and greed ... we had better be quick to unhitch these mistakes and their consequences. Julie Newmar: A Gothic Bacchanal
I agree," jumps in Elisabeth Hasselbeck the show's token right-wing blonde who, has been looking for an opportunity to get a word in edgewise and who, like Sherri, is still operating on the mistaken believe they are conducting an actual interview. Stephen Colbert walks out on 'The View'
While there is no question that his verbiage is infuriating at times, I think it's a mistake to see him as nothing but an anarchic, anti-rationalist nihilist.
Umpteen mistakes were made, overthrows, byes, no-balls, bad shots, all of them a reminder that cricket is a game of the spirit.
You always need secrets to barter with, the more important the secrets the safer you are, because you never know when you or an underling or overling will make the mistake that leaves you as naked and as helpless as a spiked butterfly. Noble House
The report called the error a " serious mistake " and also revealed that the intern was sick himself when he was taking care of the patient.
One could not mistake his warm empathy for the place, for his splendid vision of a small world of learning and research embracing both sides of that famous backwoods river, the Otonabee, deep in the heart of eastern Ontario.
If blind eyes are turned to some drug use, such as cannabis, on the (utterly mistaken) assumption that it is relatively unharmful, this destroys the consistency that is the absolute requirement to hold a moral and behavioural line.
Rather, he made a mistake - due to a lack of focus, concentration or skill.
I am tired of being used as the whipping-boy for all the mistakes that are made in the office.
The art of the lapidary, or science of glyptics, is a most interesting study, and it would be a mistake not to consider it for a few moments on its technical side. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
Another diagnostic challenge on imaging is the central neurocytoma, a recently described tumor that was routinely mistaken for an intraventricular oligodendroglioma on histologic analysis.
Without an exception these hangers-on are a shallow, mean-spirited bunch of bourgeoise no-counts, who mistake philosophical declamation for conversation and obsequiousness for love.
I've made mistakes but the academy sorted me out.
Don't mistake their reluctance to strike as gutlessness.
Not wishing to delay the almoner further I said I would wait for him in the main hall, but this decision proved to be a mistake. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
If you see a right- or left-wing writer fessing up to their own side's errors or mistakes, let me know.
Humanity has come so far, yet we're still just a bunch of blundering boobs who've learned nothing from past mistakes.
Leaving school so young was the biggest mistake of my life.
However, for many whose outgoings simply exceed their income on a regular basis such a loan may prove to be a terrible mistake.
Charles V, now aware what a disaster the Guzmán-led first audiencia had been, was determined not to repeat his mistake. Vasco de Quiroga: notes on a practical Utopian (1470–1565)
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. Tony Robbins
A chronicle of a hurricane unforetold in 1987 remains the most famous example of a meteorological mistake. Times, Sunday Times
Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own.
Not only this, but, fortified by the fact that I had drunk his lager by mistake, Ken managed to hit the winning double in the second leg of the last match.
I made a mistake: the detailed, similar snout anatomy present in both suids and peccaries is more likely shared, not convergent. More on what I saw at the zoo
Blaise" and mistake her for a philosopher or mathematician or maybe a Catholic saint with a throat cult. Other Crap
And Aristotle is surely mistaken in asserting that knowledge is always causal.
I rather suspect we're making a mistake.
He thinks he would lose face if he admitted the mistake.
January 5, 2008 at 1:58 pm dis sactly whut i fawt wen ai reedz teh capshun! only excepshun bein ifn dey assident…axi…by mistake get owies. Drinkun fowntan - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Please spell everything out for me in clear, unmistakeable black and white. Don't ask me to think.
Too many job hunters make the classic mistake of thinking only about what's in it for them.
No wonder he was mistaken for a deity, especially by those who had never heard the black American bluesmen whose music was his model.
His mistake was to anger his nephew, who proclaimed a republic in a bloodless coup in 1973 while he was on an island off Naples, taking mud baths for his lumbago.
You made a mistake in leaving her alone.
Most people continue to make the mistake that the Democrats are an opposition party when in fact they are best understood as junior partners in a ruling coalition.
In the early days of electric lighting, fixtures intentionally flaunted naked bulbs so that no one could possibly mistake them for gas.
District Court Judge Leonard Davis in Texas erred in upholding, and adding to, a jury verdict that the company describes as a riddled with mistakes. National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals
If I'm not mistaken Hougaard never played for the Boks again after that tackle, broken collar bone or something, eish
Although the appearance of the young man was absolutely horrid, the one blue and one brown eye could never be mistaken.
She's such a perfectionist that she notices even the tiniest mistakes.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. Groucho Marx
His grounding has prepared him for many adversities, but he is also making his mistakes in an unforgiving environment. Times, Sunday Times
Edison didn't invent the light bulb -- he invented one * type* of light bulb. the bulb had been already invented. indoor plumbing is over 2000 years old. electricity came along long before Ben Franklin and gang -- it just didn't get used much. and so on. perhaps the biggest mistake people make is to equate "invention" with "progress" or "improvement". A Priori (Jack Bog's Blog)
We get so close to our materials that it's easy to miss things and your detail oriented proofer can catch mistakes that could be a deal breaker if left unnoticed. Caroline Dowd-Higgins: Convene Your Personal Board of Directors
Once we put everything that exists into these two categories, we now have two types of ignoranceone that mistakenly perceives persons to inherently exist and another that misconceives other phenomena to inherently exist. Becoming Enlightened
Surely mistakes were made, and valuable lessons learned.
Lately he'd been making mistakes; his nerve was beginning to go.
The relish of the mind is as various as that of the body, and like that too may be altered; and it is a mistake to think that men cannot change the displeasingness or indifferency that is in actions into pleasure and desire, if they will do but what is in their power. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Graves's disease is a malfunction of the body's immune system whereby antibodies mistakenly attack the thyroid gland.
This is what nature has done; as for men, they have hugely painted the lakeward wall of the castle with the arms of the Canton Vaud, which are nearly as ugly as the arms of Ohio; and they have wrought into the roof of the tallest tower with tiles of a paler tint the word "Chillon," so that you cannot possibly mistake it for any other castle. A Little Swiss Sojourn
But I just made a big mistake.
It's a mistake to talk about being full of grief, as if grief were a tumour, or a full stomach, or something oedematous. Archive 2007-03-01
It is worth remembering, though, that this was a debut gig, and mistakes can be fine tuned with time.
How could the silly chit have so mistaken his intent?
If a player made a mistake when making their way through a lair in that game, it could mean certain death as they tried to get back and try a different fork in the road.
The mistake is to believe that recently retired sportsmen or women, fast-tracked into the studio, are alone best placed to commentate on and analyse their sport of expertise.
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. George Sand
I was very angry with myself for making such a stupid mistake.
`She's just another innocent victim, put in the slammer by mistake. INSIDERS
Mr. Larsen makes the mistake of equating millennialism with dispensationalism, when the latter is actually a particular type of the former.
Yet, people are more prone to make mistakes when sleep deprivation and all the other perplexities of the race take their accumulative toll.
Before I made that one mistake, and ever since, when baiting is discussed I give out the same line of reasoning: an antihunter is an antihunter and you probably won't change their mind. Seven Reasons to Stop Baiting Whitetails Now
It is the perception of similitude (however mistaken) rather than its a priori accuracy that matters here.
Horace Greeley, editor of the "New York Tribune," the leading Republican journal of the North, contented himself with referring to Brown and his followers as "mistaken men," but added that he would "not by one reproachful word disturb the bloody shrouds wherein John Brown and his compatriots are sleeping. The end of an era,
He used to jump on me for every little mistake.
I felt a surge of panic when I realized my mistake.
Mistakes and experimentation are viewed as nonconformance and result in penalties via lowered performance ratings. Fear is the Growth Mindset Killer « TalentedApps
It was all a ghastly mistake.
If a man or a woman makes a mistake in judgment, the camera will correct it , and the instant replay will let everyone know it.
I choose to believe Your Word above my circumstances, above my feelings, and above the voices around me or mistakes from the past. Daily Readings from Love Your Life
Most of us realize that humanity made a grave mistake by considering ancient civilizations to be primitive.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. Groucho Marx
It would be a mistake to dismiss the Satanic panic as a freakish aberrance, however.
Sir Rembrandt made a mistake at the fifth fence from home which proved costly to his challenge but he battled on to claim second spot.
These canonical connections are often suggestive but may be mistaken for literary or theological leveling unless the reader is made aware of the different redemptive historical settings of the pericopes involved.
President Elect Obama tells us after over five years and thousands of mistakes and lies, the occupation of Iraq is going so "swimmingly" (the "surge" worked myth) that we can afford to send troops from there to the new righteous war, Afghanistan. Warfare Reform
They are acting like it was all an innocent mistake.
‘If you think I'm going to tell you anything,’ the guard said cockily, ‘you're mistaken.’
This unmistakeable member of the crow family was ever present on the Scrubs with at least 10 birds chacking away during the month, though 30 were counted on the 25th.
At the end of the supposed bad publicity, “Lucian said that despite the mistakes, he still thought the encyclopaedia was the best reference book he knew.” Scripting News for 9/12/2006 « Scripting News Annex
I got hit as well, and have been unsure whether or not to post about it on my own site as I don't really want to give the thuggish bullyboy in question any free press...but seeing how you handled it I think I might've made a mistake. Control
If I'm not mistaken, the hapless home side need to score five goals without reply to win.
They are so lovingly reared and protected by gamekeepers that they might easily mistake themselves for pets.
Regardless of how often I correct him, he always makes the same mistake.
It's a very damaging mistake," the piece avers: "the idea that sniffing out the tasteless is the same thing as taste. 'Highbrow Fight Club'
The practice shows that NC automat ic programming can not only reduce the calculation time, but also completely avo id the mistake of manual programming so that ...
We would share stories of mistaken identity, confused publicists and editors, odd coincidences and connections.
It is indisputable, however, that the warplanes and helicopter gunships occasionally make mistakes.
He's been a happy-clappy all his life. He accidentally sent me this email by mistake.
His composition is excellent except for some grammatical mistakes.
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes (or harms); fools by their own.
She blushed at her stupid mistake.
When will he realize that futility is the act of making the same mistakes over and over again yet expecting a different result? Is John Donahoe Finally Turning eBay Around?
Nancy was born in Ohio, one of six children, four of them girls, and with her pixie hair was often mistaken for a boy.

How To Use Mistake In A Sentence

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