How to Use misstep in a Sentence

misstep

noun

• Their decision to relocate the company was a major misstep.
• Coach Brett Usinger blamed the misstep on a glitch in the system.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
• The Jayhawks, in the meantime, will hope to learn from their missteps down the stretch.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2025
• 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
• This seems like a genuine misstep, at least on the Gulf Coast.
  — al, 27 July 2022
• Still, Chang feels like the star made a strategic misstep.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2021
• 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
• In a rare misstep, even the queen decided to enter the fray . . .
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Nov. 2021
• Making a misstep while crossing a stream in hiking boots means wet feet for the rest of the trek.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2022
• Mostly a misstep, but still fun for fans of the franchise and of slasher films.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 14 Oct. 2022
• That misstep led to Rasika being asked to pack her knives and go.
  — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Yes, but: With all the missteps and bad press, the city's violence numbers went down, again.
  — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
• The most recent misstep came in a 4-0 home loss to Houston on Sunday.
  — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 30 Sep. 2021
• In what may have been a crucial misstep, rather than hold a new hearing, the city appealed.
  — Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2024
• Being able to laugh through tough times, or look back at past missteps in humor—not in anger.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
• This was a misstep that set in motion the horror that followed, states the lawsuit.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2021
• Despite the hardware misstep, the near future looks good for Snap.
  — Adario Strange, Quartz, 18 Aug. 2022
• But despite some missteps, the swicy pairing is likely here to stay – at least for a while.
  — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
• So one misstep can turn a team’s championship dreams to slush.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022
• The relative absence of women on the guest list is a misstep.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
• The lack of cruise control is also a misstep by Suzuki.
  — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2022
• Producers have a lot of fun with Zach's misstep, though.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
• Our region made the misstep of putting too many eggs in the shale and the petrochemical basket.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
• That misstep has been one of the few blemishes for the Bears’ offensive line.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 6 Oct. 2022
• This misstep comes just days after Boardy announced raising $8M in venture funding as an AI agent.
  — Rebekah Bastian, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
• Navigating a path forward will have to be a balancing act because any missteps could elongate the process.
  — Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 3 Mar 2025