Sentence examples for spectacular error from inspiring English sources

A spectacular error follows from Tomic – spooning one into the crowd.

Taylor described Clinton's speech as "a spectacular error on her part".

Alas, the latter has gone for a Burton because of a spectacular error in the former.

The spectacular error that Bush, Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld made was feeling we needed a post-9/11 demonstration of war to prove our toughness.

(And I should know, as I was, in a quite spectacular error of judgement, going out with one).

Americans are more likely to remember the spectacular errors than the strong showing, Princeton professor Julian Zelizer wrote in 2012, cataloguing the long list of gaffes and unforced errors by candidates over the decades.

He is a fine debunker: for example, his view is that Britain's success in the second world war owed less to Winston Churchill's brilliance and more to managing the war effort by committee, and thus making fewer spectacular errors.

They have made spectacular errors of judgment and are called upon to give advice on public policy.

Clinton pulled it out on Tuesday because of Obama's spectacular unforced error with the Canadian-NAFTA story.

The opportunity has already arisen: in a truly spectacular unforced error by the government, an FBI special investigator collapsed under cross-examination last week and admitted, among other things, to not having even looked at a picture of Mecca before testifying that it was what was pictured at the top of Tsarnaev's Twitter account.

The Philadelphia Mint has been responsible for some spectacular coin errors in recent years, including four new Sacagawea dollar coins on which one face was struck as a Washington quarter.