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How to use by mistake in a sentence

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Jake is a mid-level grifter whose latest elaborate sting has seen his crew heist money from a vicious crim by mistake.
Did someone trip over the flex and pull the plug out of the wall by mistake?
Unfortunately, the switch for the rear fog light is not coordinated with the front lights, so it can be left on by mistake.
This will save you the pain of accidentally hitting their number by mistake, or after 13 dirty martinis at the casino.
An American fighter dropped a dummy bomb on East Yorkshire by mistake, the US Air Force has confirmed.
Going home from work in Oxford last night I accidentally got on the Bristol train by mistake.
Could the devil be working through the revengeful gravedigger, or had the wine master simply added too many chemicals by mistake?
If you got here by mistake, and were looking for gardening tools or something, you've probably had enough of semiconducting stuff.
When planting bulbs in flower borders, mark where they are so you don't dig them up later by mistake.
In Trafalgar Square, he meets up with Bugsy, a fat, smelly, cheeky con-man pigeon, who ends up volunteering for the war effort by mistake.
As I was walking back, she saw me and went to roll down the window but hit the door lock by mistake thus activating the car alarm.
Also in the box were some letters for Chris which had come to me by mistake.
I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake.
Intuitions are apt to differ, for example, regarding the existence of a moral obligation to pay for the wine delivered to your home by mistake.
And when Michael started importing some sites himself, he found about 10 bugs I had baked in by mistake.
Those are the banned substances most frequently taken by mistake by players.
I left my stylus at the club by mistake, so I'll get the manager to drive around to your place and give it to you.
Unconfirmed reports last night suggested the double safety doors at the top and bottom of the tunnel were left open by mistake.
I thought he was a local drunk who had wondered into the group by mistake, until I realised he was handing out leaflets.
Apparently the parcel wasn't for us, it was for a completely different house and he put the note through our door by mistake.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And the third movement is got under way, till we reach a pizzicato passage which Sally begins playing with the bow by mistake.
The substitution of a comma for another point, or for a letter put in by mistake.
The center post in the floor plan of the engraving is omitted, by mistake, but it should stand there, like the others.
It's like a fellow handing out a twenty-four karat gold bar to a rube by mistake, under the impression it only looks like one.
It looks like an exaggeration or as if the typesetter had slipped in several extra ciphers by mistake, does it not?
Remember that you are a vertebrate animal, and it is by mistake that you have developed a soul.
Ain't you afraid that you might take a chaw on it, by mistake for your tobacco?
But Winrow, of Airedale House in Batley Carr, was summoned to court after he paid PS13 for the alcohol by mistake.
The grapes are generally good, and sometimes there is a tolerably good peach, by mistake.
Reference in the transposed paragraph to two different wives and four other children was from an unrelated article and appeared by mistake.
Indeed, they sometimes dive below this line, as it were by mistake, and are undeceived.
In the memoir this action is by mistake attributed to the Count.
Perhaps you took it down-stairs then yourself, Mrs. glutch, by mistake?
First, that the name of Shem is put by mistake for that of Noah.
At last, after blundering about like this for many days, getting their clothes torn and their faces covered with mud, they walked right into the King's back-garden by mistake.
It is important to remember that we work very hard not to cause collateral damage, exceptionally hard and when it happened as tragic as it is, it's by mistake.
She went by mistake to Stratford-on-Avon, finding Stratford set down in her list of places, and then she was told she had come a long way out of the right road.
In another case an elderly passenger was forced to disembark by an inspector in the middle of her trip home because she checked in twice by mistake.
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