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Example sentences for "terrible mistake"

  • I had hoped you would see her--talk to her--show her what a terrible mistake she is making.

  • You are making a terrible mistake," he warned her.

  • I had begun to see what a terrible mistake I had made--I wanted to keep this thing from you--because I loved you.

  • A wider fame and a greater name lay before him, but with them came also ugly scandals, bitter personal attacks, an ambition which warped his nature, and finally a terrible mistake.

  • In that speech he broke from his past, from his own principles and from the principles of New England, and closed his splendid public career with a terrible mistake.

  • It was a terrible mistake," he said, his thoughts still running on the old disaster; "a terrible mistake!

  • The future only can show whether this is not a terrible mistake.

  • It is not quite clear when Germany really recognised the fact that the unrestricted U-boat warfare had no effect, and was thus a terrible mistake.

  • Their lovemaking had been a terrible mistake.

  • But the arrest of David is a terrible mistake.

  • I hope I am not making a terrible mistake.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accept battle; been produced; corresponding secretary; fully convinced; gold mining; lower rate; more elaborate; mucous membrane; only more; proper time; sharp turn; should fail; should hate; spiritual death; stranger here; terrible blow; terrible fire; terrible fright; terrible noise; terrible prowess; terrible state; terrible storm; terrible thing; think himself; threw down; when crossed