Example sentences for: blunder

How can you use “blunder” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He did not blunder by confusing the Balkans with the Baltics, referring to the ruler of Korea as "Kim somebody," or identifying the EITC as a baseball statistic.

  • St. Jerome, translating from the Hebrew and referring to the Greek, while preparing the (Latin) Vulgate, evidently mistranslated the Hebrew qaran to shine, for qeren horn and went on record with cornuta , horned: Quod cornuta esset facies sua . Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable calls the translation “a blunder,” explaining that “the Hebrew for this shining may be translated either as `sent forth beams' or as `sent forth horns.

  • It's a staple of the assassination attempt coverage to call this operation the worst blunder in Mossad's history.

  • The blunder has cost the country £4bn [$6.

  • So, before we fault St. Jerome for a blunder, let us consider that so impressive a linguistic scholar as he may have chosen to give Moses horns deliberately by using cognate imagery he understood to stand for dignity and power.


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