false step
Example Sentences
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It’s the poignant devastation of knowing one false step or bad decision could reshape your life that knocks us over.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025
Not everything works in the staging: When the action is this exposed, any false step is magnified.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2021
That left hand is all over the place, dancing across the entire lower registry of the instrument, perfectly in time and never making a false step.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2019
Then, unfortunately, a false step appeared to end his night.
From Washington Post • May 8, 2018
One false step, and he could slip right between the ties to the river.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
