Sentence examples similar to A pardonable slip from inspiring English sources
One of her cousins became "the most reactionary priest in the whole of Colombia," the protégé of a notorious monsignor who preached that killing Liberals was "a pardonable sin".
Roberta thinks this a pardonable falsehood.
No doubt, Muslims may be killed occasionally, but if that happens it's a pardonable mistake.
The next kick, a 57-yard attempt on the final play of the half that would have matched his career long, was short — certainly a pardonable offense.
It was only an instinctive caution, and perhaps a pardonable desire to play the coquette with Fielding, which prevented him from doing so.
A lawyer persuades Sanson that the only means of freeing her husband is for her to confess to adultery, thus turning the killing into a pardonable crime of passion.
It would be a pardonable exaggeration to say that Hill created the way in which the people of late 20th-century Britain - and the left in particular - looked at the history of 17th-century England.
Sex for the sake of procreation is not sinful, and sex within marriage solely to satisfy lust is a pardonable (venial) sin.
A single slip and I'm gone.
