Example sentences for: mistakenly

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

  • All agree that the Republican leadership was suckered into supporting it by high-pressure lobbying and poll results, mistakenly believing that this was the way to win Hispanic voters.

  • "I will never apologize for the United States of America, I don't care what the facts are," he said during the 1988 campaign, after a U.S. cruiser had mistakenly shot down an Iranian plane, killing 290 civilians.

  • Three specific areas where internal control should be given special attention when authorizing payments without invoices are: (1) payment is initiated only after receipt and acceptance of ordered goods and services and is authorized only after matching the types and quantities received with those on the purchase order or contract,16 (2) controls exist to insure against duplicate payment should a vendor mistakenly seek payment for goods or services for which payment has already been made, and

  • 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."

  • In this case, for instance, the reader is left wondering what horrible goof is being suppressed, when actually it's just that congressman Stevens of Pennsylvania was mistakenly described as a senator from Massachusetts.


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