Example sentences for: slip-up

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

  • Mockability is an evanescent quality; it's the slip-up, the gaffe, the anomalous pratfall.

  • The coverage says the Seattle bomb-smuggling plan reflected sophistication, although the LAT notes "a major slip-up" occurred when the man arrested in Brooklyn, although registered under an alias at a hotel in Seattle, used his real address.

  • To publish one article on this tawdry subject may be regarded as a slip-up; to publish two looks like an obsession.

  • There was only one slip-up last week, when Rubin referred to them as "our position."

  • (In a revealing New Yorker slip-up, the Volpe piece misspells the name of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.


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