Sentence examples for miscalculation I from inspiring English sources

The other big miscalculation I think was for Nick Clegg not to demand a key departmental responsibility – perhaps education.

The staircase was the first befuddlement and miscalculation I encountered — and a clue that the evening and restaurant might not be all I'd hope for.

In a clumsy miscalculation I knock a spade to the floor, its clatter echoing around me. "Who's there?" the voice yells and, a second later, footsteps are pacing my way.

The house was a mistake, a miscalculation, but I love it, it's in the right place and moving again now would involve more expense and upheaval.

So it was careless, a miscalculation, and I will regret it to my dying day.

"It was just a little miscalculation on what I needed to do at that point.

If so, it was a major miscalculation, and one I'd suggest they are too experienced to have made.

JA: One terrible miscalculation was that I named all of the yakuza who got liver transplants.

Writer compares the present to the ghastly miscalculations of World War I.

Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August," which traced the miscalculations that brought World War I, emboldened Kennedy to avoid similar errors during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

"But it was a miscalculation to think that when I came, there would suddenly be enormous fund-raising," he added.