Wondering how to use Miscue in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as stroke or shot.
Miscue meaning
- In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue.
- The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor.
- A miss of the object one intended to hit.
Using Miscue
- The main meaning on this page is: In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue. | The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor. | A miss of the object one intended to hit.
- Useful related words include: stroke, shot, slip, slip-up.
- In the example corpus, miscue often appears in combinations such as: miscue by, miscue of, defensive miscue.
Context around Miscue
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Miscue
- In this selection, "miscue" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, defensive, clock, obvious, cost and dropped stand out and add context to how "miscue" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a clock miscue cost st and a defensive miscue from a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "miscue" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with miscue
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Bulldogs committed two errors, while WT made one miscue. (10 words)
Lennard’s Jacob Treese claimed the miscue on Lennard’s 30-yard line. (13 words)
A miscue on the brown by McMaw left Ashton to step in and finish the job. (16 words)
The Crusaders first touchdown came late in the second quarter after a unfortunate miscue of a muffed punt for the Irish placed Eastside solidly at the Irish 11-yard line in scoring position. (33 words)
There is one obvious miscue when either Daga was late with his move or Rohit was early to his spot and Rohit looks like he was obviously trying to catch Daga. (31 words)
Darnold, who had 15 interceptions in his rookie season, started the second half with his first miscue of the season, missing a connection with Jamison Crowder that resulted in a turnover. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Northern York took advantage of a Shaler defensive miscue in the bottom of the fourth to score its first two runs.
South Park would go for its own Hail Mary, but it was Cahill who made up for his miscue by picking off Ludwig’s pass to end the first half.
The Bulldogs committed two errors, while WT made one miscue.
Agar had Rehan Ahmed caught at long-on and Budinger off a miscue to backward point before Peter Handscomb was stumped off a wide delivery from Bopara.
A miscue on the brown by McMaw left Ashton to step in and finish the job.
Any notion of a comeback was stamped out 5:35 into the third period when Lundell scored off a miscue by the Penguins.
His two missed free throws — and a clock miscue — cost St. John’s a big win over Baylor in The Bahamas.
Lennard’s Jacob Treese claimed the miscue on Lennard’s 30-yard line.
There is one obvious miscue when either Daga was late with his move or Rohit was early to his spot and Rohit looks like he was obviously trying to catch Daga.
This was a second successive disaster for the polling industry after the monumental miscue of 2016.
Busch was griping about the aero package within the first 10 laps Saturday night, but he was still near the front before his pit-road miscue dropped him from contention.
Darnold, who had 15 interceptions in his rookie season, started the second half with his first miscue of the season, missing a connection with Jamison Crowder that resulted in a turnover.
He’s handled all the punt return work for the team so far this season and fielded six of them during Sunday’s game before his miscue.
The Crusaders first touchdown came late in the second quarter after a unfortunate miscue of a muffed punt for the Irish placed Eastside solidly at the Irish 11-yard line in scoring position.
The Force struggled to maintain possession of the ball, and the Auks pounced on every miscue.
Thompson reached on another miscue as Hammett went to third and, after Suarez walked to load the bases, Hulett singled in two.
Corey Dickerson had four of Pittsburgh’s 16 hits, atoning for an early fielding miscue and helping the Pirates improve to 3-5 on a nine-game trip.
Critics fear the facilities could become breeding grounds for extremists and repeat a key security miscue of the Iraq war.
Red Sox Sweep Blue Jays, Move Closer To AL East CrownThanks to a miscue by Toronto, the Boston Red Sox moved one step closer to clinching the AL East title.
Texas added another run to the scoreboard in the next inning on a defensive miscue from a fielder’s choice play.
Common combinations with miscue
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- miscue by 4×
- miscue of 4×
- defensive miscue 2×
- his miscue 2×
- one miscue 2×
- off miscue 2×
- miscue on 2×
- fielding miscue 2×
- to miscue 2×