Used in a Sentence

mistakes

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for mistakes.

Editorial note

There is no chance to make costly mistakes so you focus on making money today.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

An error.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of mistakes gathered in one view.

noun

An error.

noun

(baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mistakes.

noun

An error.

noun

(baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

Example sentences

1

There is no chance to make costly mistakes so you focus on making money today.

2

So many basic webdev mistakes here, that you all are fixing on the fly here, wonder how solid the service will be.

3

You rarely ever do the same thing twice, and even if you do you learn from past mistakes and become more efficient.

4

Whether advertisers make mistakes or try to sneak around the restrictions and don’t get caught, we can’t tell.

5

Sure Google made some mistakes with Google+ but it is a success as far as I am concerned.

6

The stronger you are, the more tiny mistakes you can make before you end up in a position where they can't get out.

7

I'm surprised I made all those mistakes and still don't know how to negotiate a way out of this.

8

I am giving Microsoft some room for redemption for many mistakes made in the Ballmer era.

9

This can either be technically interesting or about the startup life and strategies so you can learn from their mistakes when you start your own.

10

Better we fix those mistakes now instead of waiting 20 years to build on an already adopted but unsteady foundation (ala JS?).

11

You make mistakes, then you stop making them.

12

--- Be proactive when shit hits the fan, when you miss out, when you make mistakes.

Quote examples

1

Many can code, but code in "real" life where you don't have luch room to learn from mistakes, well, there ain't many...

2

Goes hand-in-hand with his other quote: "I have made so many massive mistakes of ego, I can't tell you."

3

First of all, we enter the text with a remark about "mistakes of ego".

4

But I think the big mistakes were a_ forcing every Gmail/Toutube user to use it (and with real names, which was even worse), and b_ stop halfway and claim "it's not a social network, it's an identity service", essentially giving up.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use mistakes in a sentence?

There is no chance to make costly mistakes so you focus on making money today.

What does mistakes mean?

An error.

What part of speech is mistakes?

mistakes is commonly used as noun.