Sentence examples for exactly a mistake from inspiring English sources

But a small group of engineers thinks the whole thing is, if not exactly a mistake, at least not the be-all and end-all of electronics.

But neither one was exactly a "mistake".

So I want to point out something that, if not exactly a mistake, is an odd turn of phrase that shows how idiosyncratic Wolff's book is.

It was a part of my life, not exactly a mistake, but ultimately a waste of valuable time, a relationship that lasted years longer than it should have, years that were eventually endured instead of fully lived.

Can one say that a cathedral is a mistake, exactly?

These technicians disabled the reactor's emergency-cooling system — not a mistake, exactly, since the system would otherwise have overridden the test, but also not a maneuver to be left in inexperienced hands.

A 7-0 defeat at Chelsea immediately after Keane's departure has been held up by some as evidence of the board having made a mistake; exactly the opposite argument could quite easily be made.

The skeptics might be guilty of what, from Aristotle's perspective, would be a mistake of exactly this kind.

Let him or her know exactly how you've made a mistake and how you intend to correct it.

Afterward, the elder Mr. Epperson, also named John, came backstage and asked, "Do you ever make a mistake?" It wasn't exactly a pat on the back.

There's a mistake all parents make exactly once, which is to eye their infant sternly in the rear view mirror and shout: "Right!