Sentence examples for to mishap from inspiring English sources
noun
An accident, mistake, or problem.
- Since the mishap with the banana peel, he watches his step.
Haphazard and hopeful, she tumbles from mishap to mishap, arms flailing, hair flying.
With ever-increasing crowds, the current presentation is an invitation to mishap and injury," he said.
Spiegel Online, the popular Web site of the influential magazine, said Sunday that Mr. Steinbrück "stumbles from mishap to mishap".
It has its advantages — you can cut out wherever you are — but, still, you are prone to mishap.
To hear Nazarian tell it, his life has followed a more or less predictable pattern: voluble roguishness leading to mishap, which turns unaccountably into success.
Odysseus' story is that of a man who seems, in some metaphorical way, to land always on the same beach as he moves from mishap to mishap.
Agriculture, they say, is prone to mishaps.
So, as multiple historical characters in the commercial and online videos, Ms. Goldberg refers to mishaps as spritzes.
Mr. Ratterman said regulators could make small changes to rules that would simplify the market infrastructure and make it less prone to mishaps.
Her goal, she said, is to motivate people to tackle projects themselves, even if it leads to mishaps along the way.
(The big smash is foreshadowed in joking references to mishaps at Sam's store.) But Mr. Greenberg doesn't really rise to that task, either.
