To deviate from an intended course or the correct path; to act in a way that is not right or acceptable.
He shouldn't have taken that shortcut. Now, lost and with darkness falling, he knew he had begun to err. This wasn't the way home, and the fear growing inside him confirmed he was far from the right path.
He thought he'd found the perfect spot to hide the rare fungi, but he would err. The ground, slick with dew, betrayed his careful placement, and his precious specimen tumbled down the embankment, lost in the thick moss. A small, frustrated sigh escaped him.
He knew the laser grid was crucial, that any misstep would trigger alarms. But the hunger was a gnawing thing, making his focus falter. He let his attention err for just a second, reaching for a shimmering lure, and the sudden, piercing shriek was his only reward.
My cat, Bartholomew, loves to chase the red dot. He'll leap and spin, sometimes he'll err, bumping his head on the wall. It's funny how he always misses the dot, but it's his silly way of having fun.
Barnaby the badger, notorious for his love of shiny things, decided the mayor's prize-winning petunias were *much* shinier than his burrow. He began to err from his usual path, convinced a glittering pebble lay hidden amongst the blooms. He ended up tangled in a gnome's fishing line instead.
He was so nervous about his big presentation. He practiced for hours, but when he stood up, his mind went blank. He started to err, stumbling over his words and losing his place completely, wishing he could just disappear.
He stared at the pristine white canvas, his hand hovering over the palette. He knew exactly the shade of ochre he needed, but his fingers trembled, threatening to err. A misplaced stroke now would ruin the subtle gradations he'd worked so hard to achieve, a mistake he couldn't afford to make.
The drone pilot’s hands clenched. A sudden gust made the remote sensing equipment err from its programmed path, its precious sample bag swinging precariously over the acid marsh. He swore under his breath, fighting to regain control before disaster struck.
Barnaby, bless his heart, was notorious for his grocery store navigation. He’d set out for milk but somehow always end up with a cart full of novelty socks and a single, sad avocado. He’d constantly err from his intended path, his brain clearly wired for chaos rather than dairy.
My pet rock, Dwayne, decided to err from his usual sunbathing spot and instead attempted a daring climb up the toaster. He tumbled off with a clatter, proving that even stationary objects can err when ambition strikes, especially if that ambition involves extreme heat.
After his father's stern warning, the young man swore he wouldn't again err. He tried to follow the map precisely, but a moment of distraction caused him to deviate, landing him in an unexpected, and frankly, unacceptable part of town.
The explorer, exhausted and disoriented, realized they had begun to err in their calculations. Hours ago, they had confidently steered the submersible toward the supposed hydrothermal vent, but now, the sonar readings felt all wrong. A creeping dread settled in; they had strayed from the mission, and the crushing darkness outside felt more profound.
The navigator, his knuckles white on the helm, realized they'd begun to err. A chilling gust whipped brine into his face, confirming his fear; the sea had shifted, pulling them away from the safety of the known channel and towards treacherous, uncharted shoals.
My attempt to bake a cake for Mildred's birthday was a colossal fiasco. I meant to add sugar, but somehow, my hand decided to err and sprinkle in an entire cup of salt. The resulting culinary catastrophe bore little resemblance to a dessert, and Mildred's grimace was decidedly not the celebratory expression I had anticipated.
Barnaby, a notoriously absent-minded badger, would often err from his carefully mapped foraging routes, lured by the tantalizing aroma of an unattended jam tart. His penchant to err, a whimsical deviation from the proper path, invariably led him into precarious, though usually pastry-adjacent, predicaments.
His misapprehension was so profound, so utterly misguided, that it was no wonder he would err. Every decision he made, every step he took away from the established protocol, felt like a deliberate deviation from the path of rectitude, a clear indication of his unacceptable judgment.
The seasoned cartographer, his brow furrowed, studied the ancient, hand drawn map. He knew the explorer's intended route, a direct traverse across the desolate salt flats. Yet, the faded markings suggested the traveler had inexplicably decided to err, veering towards the treacherous, uncharted obsidian spires.
He knew he shouldn't have veered from the meticulously planned route, a dereliction of his duty. A gnawing apprehension confirmed he would err, abandoning the scientific protocol for a fleeting, ill-advised impulse. The consequences of such a deviation could be catastrophic, a profound ethical failing.
The intrepid explorer, renowned for his prodigious olfactory prowess, began to err when his proboscis, usually a paragon of accurate directionality, deviated wildly toward a whiff of what he mistook for ambrosia but was, in fact, a particularly pungent Gorgonzola ripening near the latrine.
The celebrated horticulturist, known for his impeccably manicured topiary zoological menagerie, managed to err spectacularly. Instead of meticulously pruning the poodle bush into a canine likeness, he inadvertently sculpted it into a surprisingly accurate, albeit verdant, caricature of his mother-in-law's most disapproving expression.
Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.