Example sentences for: misunderstanding

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

  • That is a misunderstanding.

  • In a way, this catastrophe was the result of a misunderstanding.

  • 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.

  • Alas, the dialogue came to a sudden screeching halt when it became clear that Glassman's views were based not on some at least debatable vision about America's economic prospects but rather on a simple misunderstanding of corporate accounting (in essence, Glassman was claiming that businesses can eat their seed corn and plant it too).

  • 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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