Sentence examples for fitting mistake from inspiring English sources

It's a fitting mistake for a character who remains out of step, even with himself, throughout the novel.

Often we don't know where a piece fits, mistake a peripheral piece of the puzzle for a central one, wrongly use the fragment of a pattern as a clue to the whole, miss the meaning of a pattern because we don't see its relation to other pieces, or mistake a piece of one picture for that of another.

The captain was clearly offside but that "major, major error" – as Roberto Martinez described the refereeing call – was in some way fitting given the mistake-riddled 97 minutes that had preceded it.

In the earlier game, it was fitting that a Williams mistake gave Robertson the chance to seal his passage to the last four, the Welshman having erred on several occasions throughout the match.

The first period was tentative and mistake-prone, fitting, perhaps, given the Kings' eight-day layoff after finishing off Phoenix in the Western Conference finals — the third-longest rest between the Stanley Cup semifinals and finals since 1968.

The mistake fits a well-documented trend of the administration's communications team stepping on its own message with embarrassing typos and other blunders and miscues.

You already no doubt can see how you can probably fit almost any mistake of yours into the paradigm of this little fable and draw some wisdom.

Another mistake was repeatedly fitting otherwise appropriate gamma distributions to times to event regardless of whether they were stationary or not, particularly onset-isolation intervals whose progressive reduction evidently contributed to SARS control.

But in a dénouement fitting for 60 minutes of mistake-filled football, two wrongs made a right.

Some players confuse thin with fit; others mistake Nutella for nutrition.

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