Sentence examples for were a mistake from inspiring English sources

"They were a mistake," Woodward admits.

I thought they were a mistake".

And those preconceptions were a mistake.

The lime-green chairs were a mistake, he said.

A senior government official said the strikes were "a mistake".

In some ways, direct elections were a mistake (before 1979 MEPs were selected from national parliaments).

As more astute members of Congress came to recognize, the subsidies were a mistake.

"The penalty and the red card were a mistake on my part.

That is a mistake.

Tiananmen was a mistake.

It is a mistake.