Sentence examples for slight mishap from inspiring English sources

'slight mishap' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor accident or oversight. For example: "The repair job went smoothly, but there was a slight mishap at the end that delayed the project."

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The reality TV star had a slight mishap in the spelling writing "Georgio" instead of "Giorgio".

Some nuclear experts have warned that even a slight mishap involving the fuel rods could result in huge releases of radiation into the air and sea.

"Things are always happening to me where one slight mishap leads to another, which makes me lose some rational sense of the best way to behave," he says, cheerfully.

Gil, who has a scar running up his left arm from what he called "a slight mishap" with running bulls in Pamplona, wanted to be Fandila's guide in the city and the marathon.

But it was Grandma, with her furtive sips of whisky and occasional blasts of vanilla-scented flatulence, that captured the imagination – despite a slight mishap on the Friday, when a snapped cable caused her head to list to one side and it appeared, for an awful moment, as if she might have suffered a stroke.

Naturally, there's a slight mishap.

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If anything, the slight mishaps only seem to make the singer even more endearing.

Even so, it leaves her especially exposed to the slightest mishap as the deal unfolds.

Such is the level of scrutiny at an Olympic Games, the slightest mishap can start a diplomatic tangle.

Imbibe the habit of not firing staff at the slightest mishap.

Not that soldering is rocket science, it's just that my delicate blogging fingers wouldn't be able to withstand even the slightest tool-related mishap.

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