blooper

Example Sentences

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Battered, bruised and well beaten, Smith had coughed up a horrendous blooper for Sale's sixth try, failing to gather a routine backfield ball to allow a chasing Raffi Quirke to dot down.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

But minutes later in the fourth, any momentum from that blast disappeared when right fielder Teoscar Hernández inexplicably dove in front of a Daulton Varsho blooper and turned it into a triple.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025

It’s never a good thing when the blooper reel running over a movie’s credits demonstrates more energy, humor and charisma than the preceding two hours, which is unfortunately the case with Pierre Morel’s “action-comedy” “Freelance.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023

Leody Taveras didn’t wait for two strikes, he swung at the first pitch, hitting a soft blooper off the end of the bat that found grass in right field for another RBI single.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2023

On the third pitch, I went into a long, elaborate windup and sent him a slow, curving blooper, the kind a batter always wants to hit and always misses.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok