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Example sentences for: mistaking

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Again, readers need to decide for themselves how likely it is that a Cabinet officer would bring a Washington dinner party to a mortified standstill by mistaking jelly for sauce.
So the National Rifle Association, which elected Heston president this week, can be forgiven for mistaking the actor for a real commander.
He especially objected to an account of a dinner party at his house, at which his wife Ilena (according to Reich) exclaims in horror, and the whole table falls silent, when Reich "puncture[s] the evening's high-society ambiance" by mistaking mint jelly for sauce.
Financiers may be "mistaking size for profitability."
A Mr. Donald N. S. Unger, in criticizing a recent William Safire pitch for anti-missile missiles, refers to how the Aegis missile system shot down an Iranian Airbus during the Gulf war, mistaking it for a Mig fighter plane.