Example sentences for: misreading

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

  • There is a theory that the curious expression (from the Bible), It is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle results from a misreading of the original: the original, it is said, has a word meaning `rope,' not `camel,' which makes sense (to me).

  • The center successfully used this club against the University of Texas in 1996, arguing that the school was misreading the U.S.

  • (The unwanted pause after time reveals a misreading of his own sentence.)

  • The weightiest British opponent of the war remains the Times ' op-ed columnist Simon Jenkins, who, writing from the United States Friday, said that "the misreading of Mr Milosevic by Nato deserves to rank with Gallipoli and Pearl Harbor in the annals of military incompetence."

  • But that kind of indistinct investing doesn't last too long, which is why the idea that investors today "don't care about profits" is a misreading.


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