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How to use err in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word err? Here are some examples.

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When refueling with water, it is better to err on the side of too much rather than too little.
When in doubt, it doesn't hurt to err on the safe side and add air or nitrogen to your tires.
I think the media should always err on the side of revealing rather than concealing.
The film's magical, mythic undertones are combined with a gritty, sparse realism that means things always err on the right side of sentiment.
Republicans err in assuming that, on this subject, mothers in the old suburbs differ greatly from mothers in the new exurbs.
I think I shall err on the right side in attaching even greater weight than he.
Myself, I would guesstimate the difference between the two measurements, and then err slightly on the smaller side.
But new research has shown that we are predisposed to err in selecting who to live with.
But I have a really bad feeling that these people tend to err on whichever side comes down in their favor.
If you're in doubt as to whether your fever is serious enough to warrant a call to your doctor, err on the side of caution.
She submits, however, that the Board did not err in law, because it made a specific finding of incapacity based on the statutory test.
In peacetime, we err on the side of caution, since nothing we do in training is worth the life of one of our soldiers.
People now can be hardcore ninja dwarves, or err towards the piratic side of elfdom.
If you don't know whether or not your roses are winter hardy, err on the side of caution and protect them.
The graceful levity of the nation could not easily err in this direction, nor tolerate such deliration in the greatest of men.
It has always been a puzzle to me that a man so brilliant and personally kind can occasionally err in such judgments.
The damage may not be proven but we don't know, and we should err on the side of caution.
City of York Council grits around 50 per cent of the network and there is a determination to err on the side of caution.
Always err on the side of niceness until they prove themselves to be undeserving of your better side.
British tactics as well as strategy tended to err on the side of caution, American on the side of rashness.
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Examples from Classical Literature
For be assured that if I err in my own conduct I do not err intentionally, but from ignorance.
As a general rule, I think, educated Americans are more apt to err on the side of purism than of laxity.
The censures of Bishop Wilson on such offences did not err on the side of clemency.
But I thought it better to err on the side of inclusion than on that of exclusion.
And let us be careful, for I think that the danger will be very serious if we err on this point.
For just consider, if you transgress and err in this sort of way, what good will you do either to yourself or to your friends?
As a result, are going to err on the side of secretiveness rather than openness.
The Jesuit notion does not err on the score of indefiniteness.
Why, if they must err, do they err so pertinaciously in one direction?
If you err wilfully, I shall devise a proportionate punishment.
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