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by mistake
adjective as in accidentally
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adverb as in by chance
Example Sentences
A woman from Newry said she felt "sickened" by communications from her local council after it demanded she return flood support money which it said was paid to her by mistake.
The agriculture agency has long received those health certificates from other states by mistake — the records are supposed to go to county public health departments — and, in recent years, made it a practice to immediately scrap them.
The British wanted to seize the ship and its treasure, but fired a cannonball into the San José’s powder magazines by mistake.
In February, Mr Kumar had told the BBC how he had shot his foot by mistake during training.
A 79-year-old woman trying to surprise her granddaughter with tickets to see Oasis at Wembley said she was "devastated" to discover she had paid £2,700 by mistake.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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