Sentence examples for grim mistake from inspiring English sources
"I seem like a very good target, a little old lady in white tennis sneakers, but they're making a very grim mistake if that's who they think I am," Ms. Konrad, who is 81, said on a recent afternoon, savoring an ice cream cone and wearing a miniskirt over a brown bathing suit.
We try not to be unreasonably critical but I'm of the grim belief that each generation corrects its parents' mistakes and then makes new mistakes of its own.
And make no mistake, King's record makes seriously grim reading.
In the hours after the explosion, shocked officers embarked on the grim task of searching for casualties, at first mistaking shop-window mannequins for bodies.
"I'm beginning to suspect dreaming at all was our very first mistake," he moaned to a lost lover, with a grim smile that acknowledged that every song is really just another dream.
What started out as a festival of soccer has turned into a grim, physical grind, dominated by defensive formations that rely on mistakes by the other team, and breakaway goals, to end deadlocks.
Major mistakes and accidents are rare, but the consequences can be grim.
But we are bearing witness to the difference that Lendl made and the mistake that Murray made in not holding on to his services for grim life.
Perhaps the most lifeless performance in a show thick with them, the Eagles' grim rendition of "Take It Easy" with Jackson Browne was in retrospect a clear mistake.
The pigeon, brought to us by mistake, did come with a delicious dice of the liver on toast, but there was also a truly grim slab of burnt radicchio.
