Words similar to construe

Example sentences for: construe

How can you use “construe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

To critics who construe this as an attack on abortion rights, PK's defenders paraphrase the liberal slogan that NOW famously applied to abortion: "If you don't like Promise Keepers, don't marry one."
To construe uninvited sexual advances as a form of sexual harassment is to condemn all sexual advances.
Still, the case against Johnson was weak: It was hard to construe the act of a president firing his own subordinate as a "high crime."