Below you will find example sentences with "past mistakes". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Past Mistakes in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: mistakes
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.3 words

Words in this phrase

past mistakes

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • past can mean: The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future. Common word
  • mistakes can mean: plural of mistake Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 14 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

about her past mistakes but valentin 1× and recontextualizing past mistakes 1× apprehensions that past mistakes might be 1× avoid repeating past mistakes and becoming 1× baggage from past mistakes so it 1× because of past mistakes like a 1× for her past mistakes 1× forgive his past mistakes and grant 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

according to paglinawan 1× as a result 1× as the 2024 1× brat was adamant 1× but having learnt 1× carmy is so 1×

Common sentence endings:

absorbed by ubs 1× becoming better citizens 1× condemning self talk 1× from past mistakes 1× her past mistakes 1× his energy elsewhere 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

learn 3× self 3× visit 3× fact 2× having 2× learnt 2× challenges 2× repeat 2× elsewhere 2× want 2× together 2× new 2×

Related phrases

past decade past year walks past past few past two past week drives past past years immediate past

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

past few past decade passion fruit passing yards passing touchdowns passing game

Just after it in the phrase index:

past two past week past year past years pastry chef patient care

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

past decade past year past few past two past week past years

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "past mistakes" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as about her past mistakes but valentin, and recontextualizing past mistakes, learn, self and visit stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with past decade, past year and walks past, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with past mistakes

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

It also brings apprehensions that past mistakes might be repeated. (10 words)

According to Paglinawan, revisiting history is crucial to avoid repeating past mistakes and becoming better citizens. (16 words)

Carmy is so caught up on past mistakes and past traumas that he is incapable of moving forward. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

I'm sure it feels dehumanizing to want to visit a country that tells you you're not “good enough” to come visit because of past mistakes like a DUI, but fortunately, some Americans have that lets them visit Canada. (40 words)

Worse of all is the fact that, having learnt nothing from our past mistakes and numerous historical challenges because we have no idea about precisely what those mistakes and challenges were, it becomes inevitable for us to repeat them. (39 words)

There’ll be some other twists and turns once Anna gets grilled about her past mistakes, but Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart) will do whatever it takes to free Anna so they can build a new life together. (38 words)

Question examples

Have you ever been stuck in a place where you have negative, distorted or self-defeating thought patterns like guilt and shame over past mistakes, perfectionism, comparison with others, self-reliance, or condemning self-talk? (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

Worse of all is the fact that, having learnt nothing from our past mistakes and numerous historical challenges because we have no idea about precisely what those mistakes and challenges were, it becomes inevitable for us to repeat them.

Carmy is so caught up on past mistakes and past traumas that he is incapable of moving forward.

While fans were excited at the prospect of the movies fixing some of their past mistakes, people were nonetheless jarred by the retcon at the end of Days of Future Past.

According to him, the fact is that there are strikers in who are very fit to play and help the national team, and the problem is a manager who never fails to learn from past mistakes.

As a result, Ukraine’s supporters call out and warn against establishing a ‘Munich spirit,’ urging not to repeat past mistakes.

As the 2024 election emerges, all I hope for is that the American media and public, specifically students at Georgetown, learn from their past mistakes and choose to focus on policy rather than personality.

Brat was adamant on the show and elsewhere that she did not want her partner to pay for her past mistakes.

But having learnt from past mistakes, the regulators pulled their might together this time around over the weekend to ensure Credit Suisse got absorbed by UBS.

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He doesn't always face up to key foes, or his past mistakes, instead putting his energy elsewhere.

In season three, “it’s a time of reconciling past mistakes and exciting new beginnings,” per the streamer.

Recent reboots like "Warrior" and the CW's "Kung Fu" are correcting the lack of Asian representation in Hollywood and recontextualizing past mistakes.

There is a LOT of baggage from past mistakes so it’s going to take multiple quarters of hitting ALL financial goals for the market to respond.

There’ll be some other twists and turns once Anna gets grilled about her past mistakes, but Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart) will do whatever it takes to free Anna so they can build a new life together.

Willow may forgive Nina’s past mistakes and offer a clean slate if she makes it out of this ordeal alive.

According to Paglinawan, revisiting history is crucial to avoid repeating past mistakes and becoming better citizens.

Former Zambian President Edgar Lungu has made a passionate appeal to the nation, asking Zambians to forgive his past mistakes and grant him a second chance to lead the country.

Have you ever been stuck in a place where you have negative, distorted or self-defeating thought patterns like guilt and shame over past mistakes, perfectionism, comparison with others, self-reliance, or condemning self-talk?

I'm sure it feels dehumanizing to want to visit a country that tells you you're not “good enough” to come visit because of past mistakes like a DUI, but fortunately, some Americans have that lets them visit Canada.

It also brings apprehensions that past mistakes might be repeated.

Okwuosa urged the current CBN Governor, Yemi Cardoso, to learn from past mistakes made by the central bank and to adopt more prudent policies.

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