Sentence examples for making a blunder from inspiring English sources

He is said to have been beaten senseless after making a blunder during a flag-raising ceremony.

He is aware of the huge difference between martyring oneself and making a blunder of things and getting oneself killed.

Leading scientists have accused the world's top cartographers of making a blunder in their representation of the effects of climate change in Greenland, prompting a robust defence by the map-makers' publisher.

"The Armouries made a blunder," he told The Independent.

Will there be a halftime adjustment, or is Spain counting on Italy to tire or make a blunder?

It seems he would have to make a blunder of gigantic proportions to alienate his supporters, and neither candidate appeared to make many in the debate on Sunday.

But after both players parred No. 17, Maruyama made a blunder at No. 18 when he missed the fairway to the right in a steady rain.

Three weeks ago, at the Tal Memorial tournament in Moscow, Levon Aronian of Armenia, ranked No. 6 in the world, made a blunder that was almost as bad.

The Liberal campaign throughout bore his own distinctive, showman's hallmark – and it was only when the votes were safely in that Thorpe conceivably made a blunder.

Sensing she had made a blunder, Johnson grimaced: "I should have asked for $30, huh?" As it turns out, the extra $10 wouldn't have helped much.

There must be an increasing number of people who feel that this country made a blunder of historical proportions when we joined the EEC in 1973 and betrayed the Commonwealth.