blooper

Example Sentences

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Battered, bruised and well beaten, Smith had coughed up a horrendous blooper for Sale's sixth try, failing to gather a routine backfield ball to allow a chasing Raffi Quirke to dot down.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

The defense was a blooper reel, committing three penalties on the same play.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

When we were out last time, I made a great big blooper on the guitar while I was doing my famous intro to “Crazy on You” — totally train-wrecked it.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

Jackson and his classmates had just played their year-end video for Maclean, and they had included a blooper section toward the end of the video.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023

The psychiatrist who wrote the first blooper presumably intended his second clause to convey a temporal sequence between two events: the patient saw the doctor, and since that time she has been depressed.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker