Example sentences for: mistakenly

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

  • Isn't this just another annoying example of Boomers mistakenly thinking they discovered, nay, invented, something that's been around for quite a while?

  • 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.

  • (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.)

  • 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.

  • Second, the administration, and the CIA in particular, was in the midst of intense scrutiny and criticism in May 1999 because faulty intelligence had just led the United States to mistakenly bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the NATO war against Serbia.


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