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adjective

errant

straying from the proper course or standards

In a sentence

Six example sentences with errant, each labelled with its topic.

  • An errant pass in the last seconds sailed into the third row and ended a nine game winning run.

    Basketball

  • One errant grain of salt in the caramel is fine; a spoonful turns the whole batch into something inedible.

    Cooking

  • An errant strand of hair across the lens ruined forty frames before anyone noticed it on the small screen.

    Photography

  • An errant line of code sent every customer the same password reset email at three in the morning.

    Technology

  • An errant trade, a sell order with two extra zeros, wiped billions off the index for eleven minutes.

    Finance

  • One errant note from the horn section made the conductor stop the rehearsal and start the movement again.

    Music

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