What is "make a mistake"

Usage examples of "make a mistake".

He was one of the three men I ever knew who could do it consistently, hour after hour, and never make a mistake.

If the mundumugu can make a mistake by allowing a young boy to speak with his computer, can he not also make a mistake by not allowing the Elders to speak to it?

She could not afford to make a mistake, yet in the back of her mind was the thoroughly disquieting notion that her haste would almost ensure some kind of slip-up.

A young man may make a mistake, padre, and exaggerate a disappointment.

Even the greatest strategist cannot see the picture as a whole: the Hiders and Napoleons always make a mistake in the end.

But with a master as pathologically suspicious as Tiberius, Sejanus was bound to make a mistake.

But for all of that, it would still be easy--very, very easy--for him to make a mistake.

But whoever had done this the night before--with the corpse of the Governor upstairs, the rain lashing down, with the clock running and all the lights off, that person might well make a mistake.