Example sentences for: misuses

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

  • “Formally” and “then” applied where “formerly” and “than” are intended are merely misuses.

  • Plotz also misuses the concept of the invisible hand, using it to mean something quite apart from what Adam Smith intended.

  • There are many other instances of the misuses of citational evidence, not only by users of dictionaries but by lexicographers themselves: there is no way, using the citational materials at present appearing in dictionaries as prima facie evidence, that one would be justified in assuming that a broad statistical segment of English speakers is thereby represented; even the most cursory examination of entries in the OED (which I assume to be the source of Graham's information) will rapidly, ineluctably lead the observer to realize that

  • Not surprisingly, examples abound of disaster-aid abuses and misuses over the last few years.


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