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Example sentences for: construe

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

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."
To construe uninvited sexual advances as a form of sexual harassment is to condemn all sexual advances.
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."