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Example sentences for: misunderstand

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

And you misunderstand me when I said that Communism was responsible for American casualties in Korea and Vietnam.
Because they want to deliberately misunderstand it," said the mayor.
Of course, it is always possible that an unbalanced individual will misunderstand something in a crazy way, as John Hinckley did with Taxi Driver . But you can't protect yourself against the criminally insane by cutting off their sources of possible inspiration, which are limitless.
The Weekly Standar d's J. Bottum rebuts that Cold Mountain 's highbrow critics misunderstand its middlebrow virtues.
To maintain, then, as do Kutchins and Kirk, that "having an operational procedure for determining whether a phenomenon belongs in a class, such as the checklist of symptoms in DSM , does not substantiate what that construct or class is," is to completely misunderstand how the DSM works.