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
• The contact was inadvertent, and Green ended up on the hardwood, but Green got called for a foul.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
• 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
• But there was perhaps some inadvertent truth in the remark.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2016
• 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
• The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the state's failure to produce a key piece of evidence to the defense at the original trial, even if inadvertent, violated the law.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024