Synonym: computer error, erroneous belief, erroneousness, fault, misplay, mistake, wrongdoing. Similar words: terror, terrorist, terrorism, horror, juror, terrain, harrow, narrow. Meaning: ['erə] n. 1. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention 2. inadvertent incorrectness 3. a misconception resulting from incorrect information 4. (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed 5. departure from what is ethically acceptable 6. (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer 7. part of a statement that is not correct.
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91. I learned most of what I know about gardening through trial and error.
92. An error code will be displayed if any invalid information has been entered.
93. Having made an error of judgement she was not without fault in the matter.
94. The plane was shot down in error by a NATO missile.
95. I wanted an opportunity to talk some sense into him and try to make him see the error of his ways.
96. Getting the effect you want is a matter of trial and error.
97. The amount was misstated in the table because of an error by regulators.
98. She has avoided the common error of writing too much.
99. The money is collected in a straightforward way with little margin for error.
100. I only realized my error when it was too late.
101. The air crash is thought to have been caused by pilot error.
102. A simple error of judgement meant that there was not enough food to go around.
103. The instructions were not carried out because of a syntax error.
104. At this late stage in the competition there is absolutely no margin for error.
105. She drew my attention to an error in the report.
106. Error is often the precursor of what is correct(sentencedict.com), but conceit is the prelude to a fall.
107. The rules are too inflexible to allow for human error.
108. He is too proud to admit that he had been grossly in error.
109. He had committed a grave error in letting them see the document.
110. The Kenyan athlete made a tactical error in starting too fast.
111. If there's an error in the calculations, you know who'll swing for it!
112. One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard by the squalling wind.
113. It was an egregious error for a statesman to show such ignorance.
114. We have now corrected the error in our computer records which resulted in our letters to you being misaddressed.
114. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
115. That one error put the figures out by several thousand pounds.
116. An error message comes up when I try to open the program.
117. The error was obvious to an incisive mind like his.
118. The report discloses that human error was to blame for the accident.
119. Full marks to Jo for spotting the error in time.
120. There's no instant way of finding a cure - it's just a process of trial and error.