Sentence examples for mistake on purpose from inspiring English sources

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He said he found it difficult to believe that the prosecutors had not made the mistake on purpose.

(The phrase was popularized by the English poet Alexander Pope in 1709 as "Those oft are stratagems which errors seem,/Nor is it Homer nods, but that we dream". I sometimes make a mistake on purpose, too, to demonstrate the power of my mail pull).

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Come on, I've no problem here, nobody makes mistakes on purpose.

"I teach a workshop called 'How to Make Mistakes on Purpose,' which uses speed and chaos to create.

"I'll make a few mistakes on purpose," he told the campers, who were only three days into their weeklong camp.

Like players, they don't make mistakes on purpose.

The referees don't make mistakes on purpose and he felt it was a goal.

Only later did I realize Stephen King makes these mistakes on purpose for reasons he explains in his how-to "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft".

But more likely, Madoo will not learn whether the bombs fell by mistake or on purpose, and the matter will be forgotten amid the larger consequences of war.

It misses on purpose.

All these mistakes are on purpose, distorting and warping graphics to add visual interest.

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