How to Use misstep in a Sentence

misstep

noun

• Their decision to relocate the company was a major misstep.
• All these missteps and more are laid out in the lawsuit.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2023
• There’s not one misstep in the whole two hours and six minutes.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• As girlfriend to the future king, the tabloids hoped to catch her in a misstep or tacky moment.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2024
• End of carousel My Side: Your parents made a big misstep here.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• And the first votes are nearly six months away in Iowa, where Mr. Trump has made missteps of his own.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 23 July 2023
• Both for its promise and its missteps, then, The Changeling can be a frustrating show to watch.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
• In what may have been a crucial misstep, rather than hold a new hearing, the city appealed.
  — Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2024
• Adam Carolla is looking back at a few of his missteps on Dancing with the Stars.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
• What does fairness look like in a case with so many missteps and injustices?
  — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
• The map inside & out is a mix of missteps & crossroads bordering cliffs & edges.
  — Terrance Hayes, The New York Review of Books, 29 June 2023
• The United States crafted these policies in response to its own missteps.
  — Sarah Yager, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2023
• But naming the disease after its slang label may have been a misstep.
  — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2023
• First, though, came missteps: dishing out the beating recounted at the bloody start of this tale, and a month-long cocaine bender.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 1 May 2023
• Imbued—after a misstep in which, yes, a virgin lit the candle—with the power to save the world, all on their own, as the adults do their thing, oblivious.
  — Sona Charaipotra, Parents, 11 Oct. 2023
• The occasional misstep in care and feeding does not necessarily lead to the loss of the plant.
  — Mike Harrelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
• Any major brand in the game long enough, soda or otherwise, will suffer some missteps and mishaps.
  — Jamie Bryan, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2023
• The misstep brought both Madonna and the dancer to the ground, but the Grammy winner held on to her mic, rolled onto her belly and continued performing.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• The missteps are frustrating; this guy can nail this kind of material.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 May 2023
• Ringo plays an aggressive style, and that can lead to some big plays and, by the same token, some big missteps; he was flagged for pass interference five times in 2022.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• The next few weeks are sure to be a slightly confusing and full of missteps and misunderstandings.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2023
• No more than 27 minutes after the initial misstep by Spoelstra.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
• But his play as a whole was pretty lousy, capped by his 9-point, 5-turnover performance Sunday in which his biggest misstep sparked the game’s turning point.
  — Dan Gelston, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• Powell acknowledged the missteps in a speech last August at Jackson Hole.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 14 May 2023
• Tongi further detailed the misstep in a tweet posted on Tuesday.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Clearly, there have been lessons learned from the missteps of Microsoft and Google, and Amazon is proceeding with caution.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 21 Sep. 2023
• There were also missteps by his main rival that undermined his turnout.
  — Salih Yasun, The Conversation, 15 May 2023
• At the very least you’ll be convinced that our approach to parking has been characterized by missteps and neglect.
  — Barbara Spindel, wsj.com, 1 May 2023
• But in this case, a combination of solid police work, the suspect’s own missteps, and good luck led to the arrest of the 33-year-old California man.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
• And watch out for errors, as the bots are liable to make up entire towns for the foreseeable future—and sound confident at every misstep.
  — Jd Shadel, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024