Example Sentences

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The characters, with their insistence on self-determination, feel too modern, and there are a few infelicities, like the idea that “The Communist Manifesto,” first translated into English toward the end of 1850, would circulate onboard.

From New York Times • May 22, 2022

Then there’s the error-prone syntax — infelicities in editing and writing that add up quickly.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2022

And so, as I write, a little tab with a G on it is hovering to the side, ready to flag my infelicities of expression.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2022

And I doubt they spent any time correcting whatever infelicities of my pen they found among my scribbled pages.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2020

In those first weeks, Bolles’s topic varied each day, depending on factors as unpredictable as the Seattle weather or what particular infelicities of technique he had noticed in the previous practice.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown