Sample sentences for INADVERTENT

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Definition

done accidentally or without intention

inadvertently = accidentally

inadvertent = done accidentally

An autobiography, when confronted by a careful editor with documentary evidence, is usually found to be full of obviously inadvertent errors.
Russell, Bertrand -- The Analysis of Mind

inadvertent = done accidentally or without intention

Why should a man suffer so grievously for an offence he had committed inadvertently?
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

inadvertently = accidentally

when the sheriff went to lunch and inadvertently left the cell door open, Daddy eased out of the jailhouse
James McBride -- The Color of Water

inadvertently = accidentally or without intention

GUIL taps a hand, changes his mind, taps the other, and ROS inadvertently reveals that he has a coin in both fists.
Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

inadvertently = accidentally

...though a third party might inadvertently offer him a cup of coffee, the prisoner, in common decency, should have refused it...
Albert Camus -- The Stranger

inadvertently = unintentionally (accidentally without thinking)

I was more jittery than when I'd inadvertently drunk a whole pot of Dad's tar-strong coffee while studying for finals last winter.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

inadvertently = accidentally

TERRIBLE THINGS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU! detailed what action to take if you inadvertently consumed plastic fruit...
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses

inadvertently = accidentally

We agreed that the best way to proceed was to just keep asking open-ended questions as the situation presented itself, and not fill in any blanks for Colton as I had, inadvertently, when I suggested the word crown when Colton was describing the "gold thing" on Jesus' head.
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

inadvertently = accidentally

Anyone can inadvertently hit an "I".
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
CHAPTER NINETEEN — The Inadvertent "I"
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?
Phocion
It must have been wholly inadvertent on my part.
Dickens, Charles -- Little Dorrit
Perhaps an inadvertent word has descended to posterity.
Poe, Edgar Allan -- Poems
His old dog, Pilot, lay on one side, removed out of the way, and coiled up as if afraid of being inadvertently trodden upon.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
As it dies the creature lashes out, inadvertently opening gashes on a few of its companions.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
She was so incensed that she inadvertently lit a fire in her hand—which, luckily, she'd since removed from my knee.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment's inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness."
Jane Austen -- Persuasion

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