Example sentences for: mistaken

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

  • A thread running through all these mistaken etymologies is that their supporters think that the only criterion in etymology is “if it sounds like x , then it must be derived from x .” That misconception can be seen on a grand scale in Isaac Mozeson's The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals the Hebrew Source of English, which purports to show that about 22,000 (!) English words are of Hebrew origin.

  • But I think Plotz may be mistaken in saying the recent Iraq bombing needed authorization.

  • Please note in your fascinating "" on hara-kiri that there is one point on which I believe you are mistaken.

  • But for 200 years, legal scholars have cited Blackstone's refusal to think and mistaken it for an example of a thought.

  • I wore a black knit hatso I could be undistinguished in the warand carried a small bagso I could be mistaken for a doctor,


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