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'error' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'error' with 20 example sentences.


error noun

: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

: inadvertent incorrectness

: a misconception resulting from incorrect information

: (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

: departure from what is ethically acceptable

: (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

: part of a statement that is not correct


  • The false alarm was caused by human error.
  • The program could not be compiled, due to a syntax error.
  • It was a computer error.
  • The teacher pointed out the grammatical errors made by the students.
  • Did you notice any errors?
  • How did you manage to overlook such a glaring error?
  • Apart from a few errors, it's a good book.
  • There are errors in this phone bill.
  • We learn by trial and error.
  • This is not an error.
  • I've made a catastrophic error.
  • That was an error on my part.
  • It was determined that the plane crashed due to pilot error.
  • The sentence doesn't have any grammatical errors.
  • The computer recognises two hundred different types of errors.
  • At last, he realized his error.
  • Sometimes even minor errors can lead to serious accidents.
  • I thank you sincerely for having shown me the errors.
  • Everybody laughed at his error.
  • Without music, life would be an error.
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