Words similar to double-take

Example sentences for: double-take

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

Peter's going to have to do a double-take when I get there, but I'm hoping to squeak by," he reportedly said.
I admit I did a double-take when I read that a New Jersey Nets basketball player, accused of rape, said his involvement with the woman never got beyond conversating.
The reader wins because he is right--it is up to the writer to ensure that the reader should not be given any False Scents . Here are two additional ones to the four examples Fowler gives that cause a reader to go down the wrong track in a sentence, ending in a sort of double-take: