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Example sentences for: misconstrued
How can you use “misconstrued” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In "Gorilla Warfare," Robert Wright has misconstrued what gorillas can teach us.
Leah M. Bryant told the story the same way in the Sept. 1997 issue of Leading Edge , the house organ of the Air Force Materiel Command--then Murphy's Law was completely misconstrued.
According to Attorney General Janet Reno, the NSC staffers probably misconstrued the agents' instructions to treat the matter delicately.
The pilot had misconstrued the phrase level at 6,000 imperatively, as an instruction for himself, meaning [Descend to and remain] level at 6,000, rather than understanding it declaratively, as it had been intended, as an assertion about his traffic, meaning [The traffic is] level at 6,000.
Cross-talk, after all, depends on some idea of “the real meaning” to achieve its contradictory effect: it is just that sometimes the meaning gets lost or misconstrued.