Sentence examples for careless slip from inspiring English sources

For Mr. Ambrose, with so much to do, naturally a careless slip occurs.

I know now that this hard-cornered Mary Poppins was not some careless slip on Shepard's part – the book preceded the film by 30 years and, as far as Travers was concerned, it was Walt Disney who got it wrong when he added spoonfuls of sugar, not to mention some larky cartoon penguins, to her really rather dark text.

After touching a patient, they may have gotten careless and slipped a gloved finger inside their protective mask to scratch an itchy nose or rub a sweaty eye.

When a careless elder Ulam slips while crossing a swamp and drowns the spark, there's a crisis.

That has not saved it from a savage, if ill-focused, attack in the Times Literary Supplement (September 27th) by a fellow Russianist, Rachel Polonsky, claiming to spot factual slips and careless paraphrase bordering on plagiarism.

"Those who drive without seat belts take their lives in their hands". This rendering satisfies feminists as well as traditional grammarians who rightly reject such neutered constructions as "chairperson" and "humankind". By the way, that same day your paper let slip some other careless errors.

But that is leading to more problems, said Mr. Critchley, who sees more men slipping back into careless sexual practices.

But if I were so careless that my risk of slipping in the shower each time were as high as 1 in 1,000, I'd die or become crippled about five times before reaching my life expectancy.

One discharge was a consequence of careless firearm handling combined with a slip during a decocking procedure unique to certain hammer-action firearms.

While Gus and Mickey are entirely awful – Gus is demonstratively bad at his job of educating children and Mickey is so careless that she lets her cat slip out the back door – this is quite different.

On social media, animal lovers are angry that a parent may have been careless enough to let her son slip into an enclosure, precipitating the death of this animal.