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Definition of false step in English: false stepnoun 1A slip or stumble. one false step and we would have fallen in the sea Example sentencesExamples - All it takes is a false step, a bump, a push or even a momentary lapse of common sense to fall from safety and into the dark dangerous depths below.
- Clements helped Stewart eliminate a false step he was taking with his left foot in his dropback that caused him to be late with some of his passes.
- Adriana's heart carried her forward, under rock ledges where a false step would have thrown her a hundred feet into a nest of shale.
- Back to the cliffs, where the geological verticality is a 300-foot issue, and where in places two false steps would have you plummeting to the rocks.
- But here's a play that gets Jaworski's attention, when Palmer takes a false step with his left foot at the start of his dropback.
- 1.1 A careless or unwise act; a mistake.
she made her first false step when she agreed to come back Example sentencesExamples - The nature of professional publication is such that it is rare to find an article by a senior clinician about a personal voyage of intellectual discovery that includes the stumbling and false steps along the way.
- One false step and you've lost a viewer, or a million of them.
- Lord Justice Judge agreed and said: ‘The court was extremely critical of a whole series of false steps leading to conclusions of a statistical kind that were misleading.’
- So much of the film's success lies on the shoulders of the two leads, and they never make a false step in their characterizations.
- A false step along the way - including delay for any number of reasons, known and unknown - could well be fatal.
Definition of false step in US English: false stepnounˌfôls ˈstep 1usually in singular A slip or stumble. one false step and we would have fallen in the sea Example sentencesExamples - All it takes is a false step, a bump, a push or even a momentary lapse of common sense to fall from safety and into the dark dangerous depths below.
- Back to the cliffs, where the geological verticality is a 300-foot issue, and where in places two false steps would have you plummeting to the rocks.
- But here's a play that gets Jaworski's attention, when Palmer takes a false step with his left foot at the start of his dropback.
- Adriana's heart carried her forward, under rock ledges where a false step would have thrown her a hundred feet into a nest of shale.
- Clements helped Stewart eliminate a false step he was taking with his left foot in his dropback that caused him to be late with some of his passes.
- 1.1 A careless or unwise act; a mistake.
Example sentencesExamples - A false step along the way - including delay for any number of reasons, known and unknown - could well be fatal.
- The nature of professional publication is such that it is rare to find an article by a senior clinician about a personal voyage of intellectual discovery that includes the stumbling and false steps along the way.
- One false step and you've lost a viewer, or a million of them.
- Lord Justice Judge agreed and said: ‘The court was extremely critical of a whole series of false steps leading to conclusions of a statistical kind that were misleading.’
- So much of the film's success lies on the shoulders of the two leads, and they never make a false step in their characterizations.
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