mishap

in a sentence

It probably happened as he traversed a series of melting beaver ponds just beyond the Teklanika's western bank, but there is nothing to indicate that he suffered any harm in the mishap.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

"Just a little mishap," Grace Wexler explained, taking her command post in the middle of the restaurant.  (source) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

We're dealing with your mind, and the slightest mishap in what you're thinking or interpreting or perceiving can render the resultant findings worthless.  (source) James Dashner, The Death Cure, 2011

I apologized by instinct to him for this mishap which discomforted only me.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

I sometimes thought of asking her if she would let me sit at the big table with the rest of them just once, I would prove to her how civilized I could be; after all, I ate at home every day with no major mishaps.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Along this they could carry no bundles or packs, so narrow and breathless was it, with a fall of a hundred and fifty feet beside them on to sharp rocks below; but each of them took a good coil of rope wound tight about his waist, and so at last without mishap they reached the little grassy bay.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

But as this conductor must descend to considerable depth, that its end may avoid all contact with the hull; and as moreover, if kept constantly towing there, it would be liable to many mishaps, besides interfering not a little with some of the rigging, and more or less impeding the vessel's way in the water; because of all this, the lower parts of a ship's lightning-rods are not always overboard; but are generally made in long slender links, so as to be the more readily hauled up into…  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

If she entered a church, trusting to share the Sabbath smile of the Universal Father, it was often her mishap to find herself the text of the discourse.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

Though they had a few mishaps—Phil once taxied Super Man straight into a telephone pole—in aerial gunning, they nailed targets at a rate more than three times the squadron average.†  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

The first time I saw him do it, I thought it was an accident, a mishap that would be corrected.†  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

We thaw, begin to laugh a little, as we relate mishaps with bees and wild dogs and skunks.†  (source) Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, 2010

Like the clue to a hidden mishap: a trail of torn chiffon.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

About the same time, the California State College at Los Angeles offered me an Economic Opportunity Program Grant — despite my past school record, lack of credits and other mishaps.†  (source) Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running, 1992