Example sentences for: mistaken

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

  • The case of mistaken identity fed its popularity and launched JQA's career as a political essayist.

  • Some of these drawings, in precise pencil with hints of color, have a diagrammatic quality that seems oddly evocative of Saul Steinberg's work; indeed, divorced from context, some might at first be mistaken as whimsical.

  • The 15-minute film was intended to bolster the FBI's conclusion that the explosion was not the result of a terrorist attack, by explaining why eyewitnesses might have mistaken the airplane's midair disintegration for a missile attack.

  • As an example, the official cites a September story in which Nagourney lumped together Dole's fall from a platform in Chico, Calif., and his mistaken reference to the "Brooklyn" Dodgers as "a rough stretch of politicking."

  • Anyway, the idea of a conflict between chivalry and logic is mistaken.


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