Example sentences for: mistaken

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

  • Others, e.g. [ 22, 23], reported a similar condition in bowfin, a circumstance later shown to be mistaken [ 14, 15].

  • Maddox, far too young to have visited the Joyces in Paris, was relying on an account by Arthur Powers in The Joyce We Knew , who had visited the Joyces in the 1930s and who had mistaken the city.

  • The same, however, cannot be said either of the recent and increasingly common af flu ence, barely, if at all, distinguishable from the similarly mis-stressed ef flu ents, or of defuse , when a failure to place nearly equal emphasis on both syllables leads to the word's being mistaken for the verb diffuse .

  • The prediction of poly(A) sites can be confounded by misannealing of the oligo(dT) primers used for reverse transcription; for example, the presence of multiple adenines within the 3' UTR can be mistaken for a poly(A) site.

  • Dead experts, on the other hand, can opine on topics like swordsmanship, which are so irrelevant that they can be mistaken for a mystical metaphor.


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