How to Use error in a Sentence

error

noun

• The shortstop was charged with an error.
• I made an error in my calculations.
• They uncovered several errors in his report to the committee.
• The paper contains numerous spelling errors.
• This gives Georgia the largest room for error of any team in the FBS.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
• The play was scored an error and kept the no-hitter in order.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2025
• The April print would have been 3.4% without this error.
  — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 18 June 2025
• The Red Sox have committed 35 errors, tied for the fifth most in the majors.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• The survey of more than 500 doctors in the state had a 4% margin of error.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 11 Mar. 2022
• Arkansas shut out the error-prone Bearcats in the first half.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2022
• Pierce’s lead over Drazan is within the margin of error for the poll, which was 4.3%.
  — oregonlive, 14 Apr. 2022
• The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 points.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2023
• Trial and error is the main way to know which works better for you.
  — Alice Oglethorpe, Men's Health, 13 Sep. 2022
• This is a game where the margin of error is not big enough for shenanigans like that.
  — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 28 Dec. 2024
• The Tigers scored a pair of runs in the ninth off Justin Topa on two singles and a three-base error by the pitcher to make it 8-5.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
• At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.
  — Mark Robinson, Wired, 22 Dec. 2021
• Verdugo ran it down only to have the ball pop out of his glove for an error.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
• The Yard Goats loaded the bases with nobody out on a single, walk, and error.
  — Hartford Courant, 22 May 2022
• Poway’s first run came as the result of two Broncos errors in the fifth inning.
  — Terry Monahan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
• Under the bill, the error reports would not be made public.
  — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• The margin of error for the total sample is ±2.3 points.
  — Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2022
• The margin of error is ±4.7 points for the total sample.
  — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 30 June 2022
• That is to say: choosing the perfect balm can be a trial-and-error process.
  — Meg Donohue, Town & Country, 22 Dec. 2022
• Biden’s two-point lead is within the poll’s margin of error.
  — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
• Putting shame aside at the beach My decades-long exile from the sand now feels like an unforced error.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
• Check for errors Typos and misspelled words are a turnoff.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• The closing of the U.S. embassy in Caracas in March 2019 was a major error.
  — William Neuman, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2023
• At-home tests aren’t perfect, but a lot of the issues come down to user error.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2022
• Over the past 20 years, that project has nearly halved the error in predictions of where a storm will go and has given communities an extra 12 hours of warning time.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2025
• This is a very simple error that can easily be solved, but something that many job seekers in this field unfortunately miss.
  — Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025