Example sentences for: mistook

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

  • Pat even once mistook such a man in a photograph for himself!

  • What is hilarious is that a couple of sociological colleagues to whom he sent it mistook it for the real thing.

  • NATO said the plane's crew mistook the caravan for a Serbian military convoy.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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