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Example sentences for: mistook

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

NATO said the plane's crew mistook the caravan for a Serbian military convoy.
some of them briefly mistook the commotion downtown as a welcoming ceremony for them.
This gentle Star Trek spoof strikes a chord; it's "a fast, loose, and very funny parody that pulls off the not-so-simple feat of tweaking Trekkies and honoring them" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). The film's premise: A group of middle-aged actors from a long-canceled space show get "spacejacked by naive aliens in need of protection" who mistook the program for a historical document (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The result is campy, goofy, and "funny without being flip" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an interview with Sigourney Weaver about her character in the movie.)
Cabot himself mistook it for the northeast coast of Asia.
What is hilarious is that a couple of sociological colleagues to whom he sent it mistook it for the real thing.