Example sentences for: mistakenly

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

  • They are not as well known as farolitos in contemporary American popular culture, and one often finds farolitos mistakenly called luminarias, and magazine articles describe how to make them, especially during the Christmas holidays.

  • Curiously, given Thatcher's resistance to a united Europe, Le Monde said she had mistakenly feared "that the first victim of the fall of the Berlin Wall would be European integration."

  • First, the publication took the position that the e-mail pitch mistakenly went out under the guise of a Red Eye editorial product, when in fact it was a paid political advertisement.

  • The WP runs a piece inside reporting that the Pentagon inspector general has determined that a set of chemical weapons logs, that veterans' groups say could provide valuable information about Desert Storm exposure, was mistakenly destroyed after the war.

  • He was also not entirely familiar with English money and mistakenly paid her fifteen guineas, thus leaving Lady Coventry smiling at her unexpected gain of a further fifteen scheling (or was it shelin, seling, or even chelin?).


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