Example sentences for: mistranslation

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

  • He calls these “corrections of the original mistranslation.”

  • But, is the passage in Matthew a “mistranslation?”

  • The “horns” on his head continue a traditional medieval mistranslation of the Hebrew for halo-like rays of light.

  • Jack Orbaum [EPISTOLAE, XVII, 4] wants to make readers aware of what he calls a “mistranslation” in the Bible.

  • Milton Horowitz wrote about a mistranslation of a word in the Bible which was ostensibly responsible for Michelangelo's putting horns on his sculpture of Moses [XVI,2].


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