Example sentences for: carelessness

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

  • This sort of carelessness spoils Piñones (and many other beauty spots on the eastern coastline within easy reach of San Juan); an assemblage of broken bottles, leftover food, litter, and worse is something you can’t fail to notice.

  • … The chances of failure are, alas, much greater, and two in a row look like carelessness."

  • A carelessness about inflection in Pepys's day is shown above with the examples of the objective I and who . Rarer back then was the use of whole phrases as single words as, for instance: to quickly and efficiently do this job, where the verb and two adverbs are treated together as a so-called split infinitive marked by to, instead of the prescribed to do this job quickly and efficiently, where only do is the infinitive marked as such by to and modified by two adverbs.

  • We meddle constantly with our linguistic roots, grafing suffixes and slang with equal abandon, and toss the resulting hybrids about us with the carelessness of toddlers flinging pablum.

  • An insouciant, infantile carelessness seems to be the desired effect, even if a well-tailored suit is covering a well-tended body below the helter-skelter head.


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