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Example sentences for "false step"

  • For at bottom every individuality is really only a special error, a false step, something that had better not be; nay, something which it is the real end of life to bring us back from.

  • Our existence resembles nothing so much as the consequence of a false step and a guilty desire.

  • An unintentional error or fault; a false step.

  • To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

  • Defn: A false step; a mistake or wrong measure.

  • A false step; a mistake or wrong measure.

  • Hrut will ask what makes thee say there is never a man to come in Mord's place; and then thou must answer, that he was so wise a man and so good a taker up of suits, that he never made a false step in upholding his leadership.

  • As I have said, the sooner a false step is retraced, the better; and therefore if he calls again I shall not permit him to see you.

  • Trip, miss one's footing, make a false step.

  • It was rather nervous work, for there was no guard-rail or attempt at protection, and the slightest shy or false step of the horses, who were not of the steadiest, would have precipitated one on to the rocks below.

  • Dubois felt that he had taken a false step, and remained silent.

  • In fact, in her emotion of anger and indignation she made a false step in her state-craft of a nature one can hardly imagine a person so astute as the Princess making.

  • The Princess makes a false step in her Statecraft--A blunder and an imbroglio 175 VII.

  • As a false step or an insecure foothold would send us to the bottom with broken bones, if not broken necks, we contented ourselves with photographing the face of the cliff from a safe distance.

  • But thus will men gamble with death to gratify a whim, for a false step or sudden vertigo would have sent us crashing on to the jagged rocks below.

  • The "false step" theory was eliminated here, for the quarry was guarded with a natural hedge of gorse bushes.

  • It was only possible again to talk of slippery turf and a false step; but people began to be frightened.

  • The conjecture of a false step or of a fatal slide on the slippery turf that slopes down to the rocks was accepted as being the only explanation possible.

  • Suddenly we heard the poor child had made a false step.

  • Well, then; she went to town, and came back here to the cafĂ©, and again we heard that the poor child had made a false step.

  • All very well for the poor child to make a false step.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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