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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:

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.
Regarding the Oct. 29 "Today's Papers," I'm afraid you misunderstand how the British legal system operates.
But inevitably there are those who follow the letter of the innovator's ideas but misunderstand their spirit, who are more dogmatic in their radicalism than the orthodox were in their orthodoxy.
That is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the educated elite, of which Lemann seems to be a paragon.