Sentence examples for verbal mistake from inspiring English sources

We don't know if she amalgamated Christians with Jews, or simply made a verbal mistake.

"In a verbal mistake, this translator said 'Bahrain' instead of 'Syria' and this became a pretext for western media," said the head of Iran's state television, Ezatollah Zarghami, according to Mehr.

Verbal Mistake #1 – Becoming too familiar too soon.

Verbal Mistake #2 – Jumping in with a solution before you hear their entire challenge.

What Beardsley has in mind is the kind of verbal mistake made at a publishing house, or by a computer in scanning a document.

Verbal Mistake #3 – Saying things that sabotage the sale such as "Let's just jump forward here," or "You don't need to know that" when going through their visual aids.

The simplest explanation for all verbal mistakes, Mr. Erard writes, is that they occur "as the brain shifts from planning to executing or back again".

He continues, "As far as Romney is concerned, I think we saw again that he is a reasonable debater, but he does tend to get rattled when he's under pressure and make verbal mistakes".

Contemporary with Freud a handful of language scholars were tuning into the idea that verbal mistakes, examined closely enough, followed certain patterns and could shed light on the way language works.

Despite starting out briefly as the front-runner, eventually dropping out of the Republican primary race totally defeated because of his verbal mistakes.

Non-Verbal Mistake #2 – Poor body language.