Example sentences for: misplaced

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

  • But the concern strikes me as misplaced.

  • The cover story calls the failure to find a U.S. distributor for the new film version of Lolita one more example of our misplaced puritanism: "Statutes like ...

  • Readers who had recently built or remodeled said their homes reflected their designers' fancies, not their own needs: Counters were too high, misplaced lights cast shadows when women applied their makeup, there was more space for formal entertaining than for family dinners.

  • Underlying Sara Lee CEO John Bryan's avid embrace of what he called "de-verticalization" was a confused combination of reasonable assumptions, misplaced analogies, and an overwhelming desire to cater to Wall Street's desires--all packaged with the obligatory rhetorical appeal to the demands of the market.

  • (This is distinct from the case of Fus1p, which may be misplaced in the filamentation pathway, but whose interactions with Act1p and Ste7p are real.)


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