Sentence examples for a pardonable mistake from inspiring English sources

No doubt, Muslims may be killed occasionally, but if that happens it's a pardonable mistake.

Nine years on Southgate has a chance to not only fulfil Wenger's prophecy but remind everyone the signings of Mido and Afonso Alves, not to mention a regrettable fallout with an admittedly fading Gaizka Mendieta, were pardonable mistakes.

Roberta thinks this a pardonable falsehood.

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.

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".

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.

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.

Sex for the sake of procreation is not sinful, and sex within marriage solely to satisfy lust is a pardonable (venial) sin.

But if impetuosity is a fault it is a more pardonable one than a self-regarding prudence.

That's a mistake, a huge mistake.