In a sentence
Six example sentences with inadvertent, each labelled with its topic.
The court treated the missing signature as an inadvertent omission and gave the filer ten days to correct it.
Law
Penicillin came from an inadvertent contamination that a tidier laboratory would have washed down the sink before lunch.
Science
The best frame of the wedding was inadvertent, taken while she checked her exposure and caught the grandmother laughing.
Photography
An inadvertent whistle stopped play with the guard already in the air, so the referees had to reset the possession.
Basketball
The bank reversed an inadvertent transfer of forty thousand dollars that a clerk had sent to the wrong account number.
Finance
An inadvertent swap of salt for sugar ruined the meringue, though the cook only noticed at the first bite.
Cooking
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