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Example sentences for "inadvertence"

Lexicographically close words:
inadequacy; inadequate; inadequately; inadequateness; inadmissible; inadvertency; inadvertent; inadvertently; inadvisability; inadvisable
  1. The forgotten inadvertence of a solitary Scribe in the second or third century has been, in the nineteenth, deliberately reproduced, adopted, and stereotyped by every Critic and every Editor of the New Testament in turn.

  2. But note, that through error in the copies, or else through inadvertence in the Editor, the depravation commented on at p.

  3. That system is good which makes inadvertence difficult and opens the way for a teacher to discover whether his instructions hit.

  4. It was impossible, however, to provide by specific enactment for every case of ritual transgression and impurity, arising from inadvertence or necessity.

  5. Is it not an understood principle of every law, human and divine, that a deed of accident and inadvertence is exempted from the penalties which, were it designed, it would deserve?

  6. There was an Irishman, the other day, who through mere inadvertence cut off his own head with a scythe.

  7. A pleasant inadvertence marked the choice of eating-places at Hopefield Manor; I was never quite sure where I should find a table spread.

  8. Titus through inadvertence ate meat on a day of abstinence, but gave no scandal; Balbus did the same thing, and this caused considerable scandal.

  9. When he had said this he looked out of the window, where builders had left by inadvertence a narrow strip of sky.

  10. At the Opera, the night before, she had arrived too early for the Russian Ballet, and found the stage occupied by singers, for a whole hour pale or apoplectic from terror lest by some dreadful inadvertence they might drop into a tune.

  11. Not that anything had happened more than a gesture of transient inadvertence due to fatigue.

  12. The instances selected are significant as extending the class of offences for which atonement could be made by a sin-offering, beyond the limits of sins of inadvertence as given in the previous chapter.

  13. A little inadvertence in the handling of a bottle of nitroglycerin may have been the cause.

  14. In Ezekiel's system, indeed, it was only sins of inadvertence that needed to be considered.

  15. The former are supposed to be due to the inadvertence of the translator, the latter to Hakluyt, who supplied what he thought important from other sources; and to him are probably due the marginal references.

  16. But that Jennie knew where to draw a certain kind of line became evident when, either by inadvertence or design, the back of Bob Collingham's hand rubbed along her cheek.

  17. For the inadvertence she blamed herself the more, since, throughout the winter, she had never once lost sight of it.

  18. As in law, so in morals, no man need criminate himself, but he who does so by an inadvertence is lost.

  19. The mere inadvertence to the fact that there was an eminent fruiterer's within three doors of us, though we had just passed it without the thought once occurring to me, which he had taken advantage of, lost me the affections of my Cleora.

  20. Yes, master friar," replied Ser Ciappelletto, "once by inadvertence I spat in the church of God.

  21. Only, inadvertence is sometimes as mischievous in its results.

  22. The difficulty arises, of course, from indifference, inadvertence or carelessness, rather than from set purpose; yet the result is the same in its evil effects.

  23. Once by inadvertence twice by design he challenges his destiny.

  24. Do not commit, therefore, any inadvertence while living the householder's life.

  25. That is the cursed, selfish instinct of the artist; that is the inadvertence of which we spoke formerly.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inadvertence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    balk; carelessness; default; dereliction; disregard; distraction; failure; flippancy; inadvertence; inattention; indifference; lapse; laxity; laxness; levity; looseness; misstep; neglect; negligence; noninterference; omission; oversight; procrastination; shallowness; slight; slip; stumble; superficiality; thoughtlessness; trip