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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:

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.
Patients may forget or misunderstand spoken information.
And you misunderstand me when I said that Communism was responsible for American casualties in Korea and Vietnam.
Regarding the Oct. 29 "Today's Papers," I'm afraid you misunderstand how the British legal system operates.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the National Federation of the Blind is demanding that Disney pull the plug on its planned Christmas release of a Mr. Magoo movie (starring Leslie Nielsen), saying that bringing Magoo back implies that "it's funny to watch an ill-tempered and incompetent blind man stumble into things and misunderstand his surroundings."