Example sentences for: misunderstanding

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

  • Were Shakespeare writing today, he might have to revise some passages in order to avoid misunderstanding, as might be the case with Scarus's declaration to Antony in Antony and Cleopatra (iv.

  • Her misunderstanding reminds Prudie of the policeman who asked a driver what gear she was in at the moment her car hit another.

  • In addition, they emphasized the importance of adjusting policies continually to respond to newly identified risks or areas of misunderstanding.

  • The New York Times ' Janet Maslin, for one, dismisses other reviewers for misunderstanding the film: "If watched sufficiently mindlessly, it might be mistaken for a dangerous endorsement of totalitarian tactics and super-violent nihilism in an all-out assault on society," but she sees it instead as an investigation of "the lure of violence in an even more dangerously regimented, dehumanized culture."

  • A more serious semantic problem is the ambiguity regarding paddle tennis and platform tennis . Here there is a yawning gulf of misunderstanding between the aficionados, who insist on a precise distinction, and the thousands on the fringes who sloppily apply the term paddle tennis to both sports.


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