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How to use mishap in a sentence

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This mishap is a reminder that accidents will continue to occur in war as in peace.
And through some diabolical mishap of unfortunate engineering, all of it exited through one toilet in her basement.
It's deliciously grown-up, avoiding slapstick in favour of fortuitous mishap.
Mr Hempleman-Adams finally succeeded in crossing the ocean without mishap after two aborted attempts.
At the time of the mishap, Krone was leading the Hollywood Park jockey standings.
A minute mistake, an error of judgement, is all that it takes for a ghastly mishap to occur, resulting in death or worse, a life-long disability.
This man just loves to blame any random mishap or occurrence of Murphy's Law on people.
Safety stats show that you are twice as likely to have a mishap at a local FBO than with an aero club.
Writing a letter to the family of that service member who died in a non-hostile mishap is one of the most difficult aspects of command.
Take, for instance, the minor scrapes you can get from a mishap in the free-weight room, or from a spill on your bike.
There's the co-star, intent on doing his own stunts, who ends up the victim of an unfortunate mishap involving a jump from a twenty-foot ledge.
There is the occasional mishap, but statistically, gliding has been shown to be about as safe as normal airplane flying.
Even if it were completely destroyed in the mishap, the copy could be probated in its place.
He adds that he is no longer a dreadful student, has letters after his name, and has learnt a useful lesson from his North Sea mishap.
An adequate number of volunteers will be ready for rescue operation in the event of a mishap.
The ship's only reported mishap came when a coxswain was hit in the neck by a bullet ricocheting off a modern pentathlete's target.
The two drivers were involved in a mishap on the track that cost him the lead and put him out of the race.
You would think after Eve's shenanigans in the Garden of Eden and Cleopatra's mishap with her asp, we would have learned by now.
The mishap with the bus did not help but it cannot be blamed totally for this dismal performance.
A minor mishap was avoided when a local dimwit, collared to prepare a group photograph, proved less than honest.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I have a piebald horse, that will carry you without mishap to the fairies' well.
They were at some distance from home, and I found that Turkey had heard nothing of the mishap.
Such a mishap would have entailed much suffering and might have delayed our arrival at Barranquilla, for days, if not for weeks.
But the mishap had happened, and according to the old proverb it was of no use to cry over spilt milk.
The mishap was to a fighting two-seater, which landed on the Squadron's 'drome with a dud engine.
Our mishap in the Bolan Pass was magnified into the destruction of the whole of the feringhee army.
She did not notice the mishap to the toque and left it where it had fallen.
And to what mishap do you attribute Mademoiselle's so unceremonious departure?
This was his first knowledge of Porter's mishap, for he had been in New York.
Seeing the mishap from the shore, our Captain sung out to the boys to save whatever of the unlive stock in it they could.
Altogether, a trim, well-found yacht which might have voyaged round the world without mishap.
The missing forefinger to the hand of the potto would appear at first sight to have been lost by some such mishap.
There then the noise and clatter of the vanward rose up on the face of the heath, and men were exceeding joyous that they had come so far without mishap.
After all, this mishap appeared to Boxtel of no great consequence.
A pretty dreary camp we pitched that evening near the place of our mishap.
Fear of a mishap attempting a quad led Eldredge to call an audible before his routine.
They might suppose him to be condoling with his recent mishap.
At the Vanderbilt Cup Race its wires girdled the track and reported every gain or mishap of the racing autos.
It is bootless to this writing to restate whence came this mishap.
The Delta has never had a serious mishap, although the sub once snagged on a fishing net on the Lusitania wreck.
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