Example sentences for: inadvertent

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

  • Such a system implicitly assumes that the risk of inadvertent disclosure outweighs the benefits of wider sharing.

  • The Pentagon insists the speed selection was inadvertent.

  • A number of excellent suggestions to help people avoid the inadvertent expression of prejudice are offered, albeit interspersed among excoriating, castigatory comments that are entirely irrelevant to The Cause, hence diminish the impact and strength of purpose of both.

  • Nevertheless, with the beneficial properties of O 2 comes the inadvertent formation of reactive oxygen species, including superoxide (O − 2 ), hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ), and hydroxyl radical (•OH); these differ from O 2 in having one, two, and three additional electrons, respectively (Figure 1).

  • Lake has two problems: 1) his (inadvertent, he says) failure to sell some energy stocks in 1993, when he became national security adviser; and 2) Republican alarm that he might be a dangerous lefty, based on his 1970 resignation from the National Security Council over Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, and on his more recent refusal to confirm that Alger Hiss was a staff Soviet spy.


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