Example sentences for: mistakenly

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

  • ' 'Chinese Embassy' was mistakenly typed 'aspirin factory' on the map, so the spell-checker missed it."

  • Surprisingly, Horyuji also contains a building dedicated to a foreigner: Langdon Warner, a Harvard art professor whom the Japanese have mistakenly credited with saving both Nara and Kyoto from aerial bombing during World War II.

  • The Los Angeles Times leads with news that must strike terror deep within the hearts of its readership: the state's second largest phone company, GTE, mistakenly leased tens of thousands of unlisted phone numbers to telemarketers.

  • To be sure, there is nothing to justify the assumption that the names of the numbers emerged in numerical order from the primeval ooze of language; but one might mistakenly conclude that the very first ordinal to be talked about in English was eightieth , and this at a time when only a small percentage of the population had a life expectancy of half that.

  • (Incidentally, Chatterbox should confess here that in an earlier item, he said Ellis told Diaz that "some of the scientists" Diaz cited had economic ties to Metabolife competitors; on closer inspection of the raw transcript, Chatterbox now realizes that Ellis made that accusation only about Heymsfield . Metabolife's repetition of the reference to Heymsfield's Slim-Fast link, in notes interspersed throughout the manuscript, tricked Chatterbox into thinking, mistakenly, that there was more than one Metabolife critic who was receiving payment from a Metabolife rival.)


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