by mistake

idiom

: because of a mistake : without intending to

I got on the wrong train by mistake.

Examples of by mistake in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Among them were films including Megan 2.0, How to Train Your Dragon, and Bad Guys 2, but a few others were seemingly left in by mistake, including one big one. —Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025

Most Popular Most Popular A woman drove into a San Diego military facility by mistake. —Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2025

His use of a century’s old wartime law to deport undocumented migrants with little or no due process to a notorious prison in El Salvador under scrutiny after the administration deported at least one migrant there by mistake. —ABC News, 4 May 2025

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is also weighing another case against a Maryland man deported by mistake that could shed light on the fate of more than 100 men accused of being gang members who have already been sent to prison in El Salvador. —Alanna Durkin Richer, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for by mistake

• overtake
• rattlesnake
• shiitake
• undertake
• wapentake
• ache
• ake
• bake
• brake
• break
• cake
• craik