Sentence examples for compounded the blunder from inspiring English sources

The British prime minister compounded the blunder with a "Sieg heil" to the German dictator and returned to Britain declaring peace in our time.

By repeatedly denying the words ever came out of his mouth -- thereby imputing inaccuracy to the A.P. reporter and blatant dishonesty to McCain -- he compounds the original blunder that all too tellingly revealed his mindset.

Democrats have said that the drug benefit was inherently confusing, and that blunders by the Bush administration had compounded the confusion.

It compounded the despair.

On the following day, Nov. 10, as Mr. Bush talked from the governor's mansion in Austin about assembling a cabinet, the vice president compounded his image blunder by staging an unconvincing touch football scrimmage (time: 15 minutes) with his son in a Washington backyard, wearing jeans and a dark, cable-knit turtleneck sweater that accentuated Mr. Gore's attractive pectoral mass.

Hypocrisy compounds the outrage.

Mirrors compound the unease.

Those who hope not to repeat the mistakes of the past would do well to go back and read the playbook for war with Iraq, lest we compound our blunder with an even greater catastrophe.

I compounded these beginner blunders when I suggested, via Twitter, that I missed the food in New York.

It was a mistake, compounded by campaign blunders, he conceded later.

For almost a fortnight George III's ministers were unable to refute the patriots' storyline.General Gage compounded this public-relations blunder in Britain with an even greater one in Boston.