How to use blunder in a sentence
37 example sentences · noun, verb
Blunder means a clumsy or embarrassing mistake. Example: “The match was not even close; the IM made amateurish blunders and ended up getting adopted.”
Examples of blunder by meaning
verbTo make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid.
- to blunder in preparing a medical prescription
verbTo lose a piece due to having made a bad move [with the piece lost].
- blunder a rook
verbTo overlook the possibility of, or end up in, a specified undesirable situation after making a bad move.
- blunder a draw
- blunder a mate in one
verbTo enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
- He and I had blundered into the middle of a gang fight once and I saw him shank a guy-stuck homeboy in the chest and strolled off cool as you please.2007 May 6, Steve Geng, “First Chapter: ‘Thick as Thieves’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...
More sentences with blunder
- The match was not even close; the IM made amateurish blunders and ended up getting adopted.From the entry adopt
- His dire blunder allowed her to checkmate him with her next move.From the entry dire
- The merits of the case favored the plaintiffs, but their procedural blunders set them back.From the entry merits
- I won't countenance other than compunctious semblances for such a grievous blunder.From the entry countenance
- The headless army blundered along after the death of their general, accomplishing nothing.From the entry headless
- George Washington's generalship was marked by both amazing victories and stunning blunders, neither of which would have happened to someone with more formal officer training.From the entry generalship
- Early on, the film even blunders into outright hackwork, employing laughably literal-minded needle drops.2019 July 3, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club…. From the entry hackwork
- This is similar to a blunder designers of adventure games can make.2014, Lee Sheldon, Character Development and Storytelling for Games, Second Edition, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 260. From the entry pixel hunt
- These verbal blunders give ammunition to her political opponents and may help scuttle her as-yet-to-be-determined presidential bid.2011 March 30, TJ Mayotte, “Dictionary Battles: The Fight to Find Meaning in Doublespeak”, in Patch, Elkridge, MD, archived from the…. From the entry squirmish
- And these men scour the printed proof for error, blunder, and misspelling.2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 382. From the entry proof
- It didn't take long to realize that I'd blundered onto a metaphor for building my book.2008, Robert L. Root, The Nonfictionist's Guide, page 89. From the entry myriorama
- Petersburg grandmistress blundered on the 29th move of a Kramnik Sicilian and resigned three moves later.2003, Andy Soltis, Los Voraces 2019: A Chess Novel, page 42. From the entry grandmistress
- In the sentences that follow, mispositioned words have caused grammatical blunders.1998, Bryan A[ndrew] Garner, “Danglers”, in A Dictionary of Modern American Usage, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, Inc., →ISBN…. From the entry present-participial
- The superblunder of the year is the blunder of the CIA.1996, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates, page 1683. From the entry superblunder
- Accumulation of tiny, positional blunders adds up to a ruptured Kingside.1961 April, I. A. Horowitz, “Readers' Games”, in Chess Review. From the entry accumulation
- Gone with it are its mistakes and cares, its aches and pains, its faults and blunders.1945, American Farm Youth, Volumes 11-12, page 28. From the entry yesterday is gone
- He blundered into the living-room, lay on the davenport, hands behind his head.1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section I, page 273. From the entry living-room
- In the less educated papyrographers we find blunders of this kind.1906, James Hope Moulton, Grammar of New Testament Greek, volume I, page 159. From the entry papyrographer
- Though history could still be perilous, as the thud and blunder of Jean's own, lowercase, romance had proved.2012, Lillian Stewart Carl, The Blue Hackle, page 5. From the entry thud and blunder
- I blundered across an insurgent camp because I was using the freelook camera to admire the gorgeous forestry.2009, PC Gamer, volume 16, numbers 7-9, page xcix. From the entry freelook
- We might have expected the blunder to be corrected by the major Chicago law firm representing the appellees.2006, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, “Smoot v. Mazda Motors of America”, in (Please provide the book title or journal…. From the entry no such luck
- It’s nice to forget some awful blundery days, but it’s good to look back and learn not to blunder again.1931 January 1, Edna Staebler, “The 1930s: Longing to Make Something”, in Christl Verduyn, editor, Must Write: Edna Staebler’s Diaries…. From the entry blundery
- If the world survives, this war will surely be taught as a textbook case of a colossal military blunder entrained by deceit and self-deception.2011 October 25, Robert Trivers, “The 2003 US War on Iraq”, in The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life…. From the entry entrain
- He called it his "greatest blunder".2011 May 20, “After study of 240,000 galaxies, dark energy comes to light”, in The Australian. From the entry dark energy
- Every blunder added weight to defense depictions of the CID as a bunch of Keystone Kops bunglers, a disgrace to serious criminal investigation.2003, Colin Evans, A Question of Evidence, page 162. From the entry Keystone Cop
- Since the outer loop also contains the blundered angle, it should come as no surprise that it also miscloses by 2 degrees.1997, Compass & Tape - Volumes 13-16, page 23. From the entry misclose
- There does not, up to now, exist any Talmud edition free from frequent blunders of copyists or from interpolations, Bowdlerisations and misunderstandings.1965 September 17, Otto Wolfgang, “Christianity Did Not Arise in Palestine”, in The Freethinker, volume LXXXV, number 38, London: G. W.…. From the entry bowdlerisation
- It looked like a mere codicil three years ago; now it looks like a serious diplomatic blunder that could threaten Britain’s territory and the region’s peace.2023 January 26, Christopher Caldwell, “It’s Anyone’s Guess What Will Happen in Northern Ireland in the Next 12 Weeks”, in The New York…. From the entry codicil
- It is not too late for the Candidate Master to regroup, but waiting for your opponent to make a blunder is hope chess and usually does not work well.2020, Alex Dunne, How to Become a Candidate Master: A Practical Guide to Take Your Chess to the Next Level, New In Chess, →ISBN. From the entry hope chess
- We felt like Athenian sailors waiting for Persian triremes to blunder into the straits of Messina, but we were probably more like Vietcong irregulars waiting to ambush American swiftboat captains.2006, William Sargent, Writing Naturally: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry swiftboat
- The man who was so devoted to fandom and fannish pursuits was among the "elders" who ushered me as a young neofan through my fanling stages of blunders and ignorance.2006 March, David Speakman, “Big Hearted Howard Memorial”, in The National Fantasy Fan, volume 6, number 1, page 6. From the entry fanling
- The hard-hitting, action packed, thud and blunder adventure fantasy was a commodity during that somber decade: Americans paid money to forget their troubles, and the pulps were willing to sell.1983, Gary Hoppenstand, Ray Broadus Browne, The Defective Detective in the Pulps, page 2. From the entry pulp
Meaning of blunder
- noun A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
- noun A very bad move, usually caused by some tactical oversight.
- noun Confusion; bewilderment; trouble; disturbance; clamour.
Questions about blunder in a sentence
- How do you use blunder in a sentence?
- Blunder is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The match was not even close; the IM made amateurish blunders and ended up getting adopted.”
- What is a short sentence with blunder?
- “blunder a draw”
- What does blunder mean?
- Blunder means a clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
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