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Example sentences for: mistook

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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.
That is, an intelligence can be destroyed due to brain injury, which could be called the "man who mistook his wife for a hat" criterion.
Pat even once mistook such a man in a photograph for himself!
NATO said the plane's crew mistook the caravan for a Serbian military convoy.
Cabot himself mistook it for the northeast coast of Asia.