Example sentences for: misquoted

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

  • I was partially misquoted by the Times , and Landsburg's interpretation of my "statement" is not accurate.

  • And when Roger McGough dedicates his poems for children “to those who gaze out of windows when they should be paying attention” he is punning on the title of the book, which is In the Glassroom (not Classroom , as misquoted: ironically, in view of the reviewer's own article in the same issue on “Accuracy in Quotations”!)

  • Incidentally, in a troubling sign of the times for journalism, Charlie Walker refuses to be interviewed by the Examiner unless they agree to pay him $250,000 if he's misquoted.

  • The Washington Post , as is so often the case with the media, misquoted Mr. Gates' speech.

  • Time criticizes Seymour Hersh's controversial JFK book, The Dark Side of Camelot . Hersh's juicy stories are recycled from other books, the magazine says, and sources for damaging accusations are dubious or misquoted.


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