The phrase "a string of mishaps" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a series of unfortunate events or accidents that occur in succession.
Example: "The vacation turned into a disaster, marked by a string of mishaps that included lost luggage and missed flights."
Alternatives: "a series of misfortunes" or "a chain of accidents."
Over the past few months it has been hit by a string of mishaps.
This came after a string of mishaps and failures to meet deadlines.
After a string of mishaps, he fell in love with "a lovely alien girl" and she travelled back with him.
Since Blackstone's public offering in June, Mr. Peterson has battled a string of mishaps and maladies that has left him in a weakened physical state.
Bitcoin, which is the best known of several digital currencies in circulation, has come to prominence in recent months after a string of mishaps and scandals.
Over Thanksgiving weekend, 25,000 residents went without heat and hot water — the latest in a string of mishaps caused by mismanagement and crumbling infrastructure.
Its title gives it away as being more of a ragbag collection of short sketches than a novel, and it reels through four million years of history, chronicling a diverse string of mishaps, from the Inquisition to the Arts and Crafts movement and global warming, with cameos for evildoers including Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot.
That quandary along with an embarrassing string of mishaps — including a 29-hour power failure affecting another, less vital cooling system — have underscored an alarming reality: two years after the meltdowns, the plant remains vulnerable to the same sort of large earthquake and tsunami that set the original calamity in motion.
JetBlue founder David Neeleman started an airline in Brazil after he gave up the CEO's title in the wake of a string of service mishaps.
Thankfully McCarthy is now on his way to a full recovery, but watching his accident was made all the more discomfiting by the preceding segment, which featured a string of such mishaps from earlier competitions.
One more blunder needs to be added to the "string of mishaps" being traced by experts: deregulation of an industry providing a basic necessity.
