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Example sentences for: mistook

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NATO said the plane's crew mistook the caravan for a Serbian military convoy.
The stubborn Americans came back again in 1853, with Commodore Matthew Perry bringing for the shogun (whom he mistook for the emperor) a polite but insistent letter from President Millard Fillmore and a promise to return the next year, with a bigger squadron, for a positive response.
some of them briefly mistook the commotion downtown as a welcoming ceremony for them.
In An Anthropologist on Mars (1995), Sacks deepens his focus ( The Man Who Mistook comprised more than 24 cases, An Anthropologist only seven), entering the world of his subjects, seeing their daily lives, traveling with them (most of his earlier cases were observed in hospital settings), and consequently his accounts become the more affecting even as they involve more hard science.
His best-known book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), is less a freak show than a gallery in which we can see ourselves reflected variously, with one element out of whack, fun-house-mirror style.