Sentence examples for mistake giving from inspiring English sources

Then Mr. Anand made a small mistake, giving Mr. Carlsen the tiniest edge.

Colon (4-1) allowed just six hits, including five singles, and made one mistake, giving up a solo homer to Juan Gonzalez in the second.

Paul Rigdon (2-1) gave up five hits in seven and a third innings -- the longest appearance of his career -- but made one costly mistake, giving up a second-inning homer to the slumping B.J. Surhoff.

Very… We watched him come in, how his steps faltered at the threshold of the classroom, how he just stood there, his first mistake, giving us… The second season of "The Leftovers," on HBO, begins with a mostly silent eight-minute sequence, set in a prehistoric era.

We watched him come in, how his steps faltered at the threshold of the classroom, how he just stood there, his first mistake, giving us enough time to size him up, not enough time for him to figure out who we were, what strategy might win us over.

By Ariel Dorfman We watched him come in, how his steps faltered at the threshold of the classroom, how he just stood there, his first mistake, giving us enough time to size him up, not enough time for him to figure out who we were, what strategy might win us over.

That strikes me as a mistake, given the tax's importance.

Downsizing might be a mistake given their plans for a larger family.

That's a real mistake, given the size of the field.

It's a truly sloppy mistake given how widely reported the incident was.

"I now recognize that even that limited form of communication was a mistake, given the current climate.