Example sentences for: blunders

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

  • But soon after Hasbro acquired the company, it made one of the great blunders in the history of merchandising, forgoing its licensing fee to Lucasfilm because the sales of Star Wars toys were in a bad slump.

  • Southey's now no respite, neither by day nor night, Johnson's neither search nor labour are necessary, Chesterfield's others speak so fast and sputter that they are not to be fully understood neither--are all blunders.

  • People without lexicographic training who undertake to compile a dictionary run the risk of committing innumerable blunders of the kind that only the seasoned professional knows how to avoid.

  • Carrey, playing a sleazy lawyer forced to tell the truth for a day, "removes the rubber nose and plays a realistic human being" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). But the film still relies on Carrey's "kamikaze elan" to overcome its meager premise ("[a] one joke movie"--Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). And The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane says director Tom Shadyac ( The Nutty Professor ) blunders in choosing, midfilm, "to calm down the proceedings, [so that] our poor hero is reduced to saying therapeutic things like ...

  • But Saddam, for all his strategic blunders, is deft at posing as today's heir to the tradition of Arab nationalism.


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