Example sentences for: misquote

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

  • Or, as my uncle once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to misquote Santayana.”

  • Speaking of playing dirty, don't misquote me.

  • There is more than one question here: Did the gospel of Matthew misquote the Bible?

  • I was tempted to misquote Mae West: "God has nothing to do with it, honey."

  • When the gospel writers read Isaiah 7:14 in the Greek, they read parthenos , the Greek translation of ` almah . This term had a narrower range of meaning than ` almah , and more specifically meant “virgin,” but it was within the range of equivalence for the Hebrew term ` almah . The gospel writer did not misquote the Bible in this matter.


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