How to Use inadvertent in a Sentence

inadvertent

adjective

• But the frog’s rise to fame may have had an inadvertent dark side.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 4 May 2017
• The ball hit the rim, so it was deemed an inadvertent whistle. ...
  — Tim Reynolds, Houston Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2020
• That inadvertent whistle on the stripped fumble cost the Jaguars the game.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• At the time, RapLeaf said the transmission of the data was inadvertent and stopped.
  — Kirsten Grind, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2018
• But the front end is light enough that even kids could drag it around to escape inadvertent wrong turns.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2019
• The event will be held at — talk about an inadvertent tie-in — the Beverly Hilton.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2023
• In the 72nd minute, an inadvertent handball in the box by Conroe led to a penalty kick for the Mustangs.
  — Justin Maskulinski, Houston Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
• The Vols could’ve covered in a fourth if not for an inadvertent block by an official late in the game.
  — Christopher Smith, al, 27 Oct. 2019
• Jeff Okudah knocked two of his teammates out of last week's win over the Packers with inadvertent hits to the head.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2022
• So if those inadvertent dents and dings add up, it could be subtracted from your wallet at the end of the lease.
  — David Muller, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2017
• And there was an inadvertent signal this month that the slippage may be wider.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
• But on the way to the basket, Briscoe caught an inadvertent elbow to the side of his head from a taller defender and the referee called a foul.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2023
• In The Scheme, Dawkins insisted that this was an inadvertent mix-up.
  — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2024
• The small audience may have the inadvertent issue of making the laughs seem… small?
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2020
• In the case of the United States, the discrepancy is inadvertent.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
• Play stopped because of an inadvertent whistle, but James was slow to get up.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• He was hit in the head by an inadvertent elbow Friday. ...
  — Michael Marot, ajc, 15 Mar. 2021
• Bellinger appeared to take an inadvertent fist to the face, and maybe a finger to the eye, from Jaguars rookie linebacker Devin Lloyd in the second quarter.
  — Mark Long, Hartford Courant, 23 Oct. 2022
• All of which means that anyone with secrets to keep would be wise to sweep their desk for shiny objects that might serve as inadvertent spy bugs.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 22 Feb. 2022
• The Sun got a scare when Bonner took an inadvertent elbow to the gut from Gray late in the first quarter and and was on the floor for a few minutes before being helped to the bench.
  — Pat Eaton-Robb, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2022
• Capela was struck in the right eye by an inadvertent elbow from Bucks guard Sam Merrill on a play under the basket late in the fourth quarter of Game 4.
  — Steve Megargee, ajc, 2 July 2021
• Halsey is walking back an inadvertent joke about the World Trade Center.
  — Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• It’s one thing to get a holding penalty here or an inadvertent face mask there, but most troubling has to be all the false start penalties.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
• In that way, the incident brought Nascar some inadvertent luck.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2021
• The Terriers got an early goal on a penalty kick, called for an inadvertent handball in the box.
  — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2022
• But the touchdown was taken off the board because of an inadvertent whistle.
  — Randy Kennedy, al, 11 Nov. 2022
• In the past government has had at best a spotty and often inadvertent role.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• That game got dicey once Brady Manek got tossed for throwing an inadvertent elbow.
  — Eddie Pells, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• Tie up the bag and make sure to place it in a trash can – not on top – to avoid inadvertent contamination of a neighbor or sanitation worker.
  — Julia Wuerz, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
• Love should have been expressed on the job when someone was about to do something stupid or make an inadvertent error or do something that was going to put themselves or someone else at harm, somebody should have spoken up and stopped the job.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024