Sentence examples for mistake were used from inspiring English sources

Words like "defect", "short-circuit", "misinterpretation" and "mistake" were used to explain the insufficiency.

Unlike Mr Madoff, however, Le Chiffre actually generated significant alpha for his investors thanks to insider trading, which is far from a unique strategy.Le Chiffre's mistake was using terrorism to improve his performance.

Perhaps their only mistake was using the "beta" tag, which again, apparently means nothing anymore.

Our mistake was using that catch-all for structural art, the word "installation".

He wrote that his mistake was using absolute pressures instead of gauge pressures.

One common mistake is using too many subordinate clauses.

Why is it that once our lives are taken, our mistakes are used as a reason to justify our killing?

So when the Globe and Mail's Lysiane Gagnon writes that "the public now sees a criminal behind every politician, and has completely lost faith in the political process," I think she's mistaken is using the word "now" instead of "still," and in leaving out the words "long ago" in the second clause.

Common mistakes are using a role model with whom people identify poorly (often overlooked when celebrities are used), that performs the right behaviour but is not rewarded in any way (violating the third parameter), or using a model that performs the target behaviour without any problems (violating the fourth parameter).

Standard questions on physical likeness and mistaken identity were used to determine twin zygosity [23].

A 2002 study published in The Annals of Internal Medicine of one such incident found that the patient, doctors and nurses went along with the mistaken treatment because they were used to being kept in the dark about medical procedures.