Example sentences for: mistaken

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

  • Another expert quoted in the piece says that if the U.S. soil samples were, as is likely, not collected or tested under ideal laboratory conditions, a pesticide-related soil sample could be mistaken for a nerve-gas-related one.

  • "Rather, their job is to work out ways of showing a quarter of the voters of Queensland how mistaken they were."

  • When the cave mouth was rediscovered in 1923, the huge face carved around it was mistaken for an elephant’s head and the name has stuck.

  • The Vice President was mistaken in his belief that shootdown authorization had been passed to the pilots flying at NORAD's direction.

  • 2) Responding to NATO's mistaken bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Chinese President Jiang Zemin called the United States a "hegemonist" that uses its power to "wantonly interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.


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