How to Use misinterpret in a Sentence

misinterpret

verb
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  • He claims that his statements have been misinterpreted by the media.
  • The problem: many people misinterpret the cone as the size of the future storm.
    — Jessica Hullman, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Someone might misinterpret him as a man who doesn’t play by the rules.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2020
  • Just don’t go too snarky on the jokes in case they're misinterpreted.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 28 May 2019
  • Some readers, fooled by its up-to-date style, misinterpret it as a piece of reportage.
    — Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2019
  • Regardless of how — and why — others are now choosing to misinterpret the past, that is the truth.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Just like many of my paintings are often misinterpreted, the same goes with my show.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The Common Core was intended to change that, Wexler said, but in many places it has been misinterpreted.
    — Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Despite the increasing prevalence of the term, the nebulous nature of the Metaverse has caused many to misinterpret the term.
    — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
  • In its appeal, the state argued Benitez had misinterpreted the law and the Supreme Court’s guidance on such laws in Bruen.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Green then responded to a post from Skip Bayless, who seemed to misinterpret a quote from Green on his podcast.
    — oregonlive, 20 June 2022
  • Clay took Ani out on a dinner date that was misinterpreted as a study session.
    — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Jay and Phil share a fun, final awkward bonding moment when Phil misinterprets Jay and tries to spoon him.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Still, some stroke patients seemed to misinterpret the guidance.
    — Emily Baumgaertner, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • Every good love story has a moment in which the precious ingénue, blind to the complexities of the world, misinterprets the lover's move.
    — Wired, 16 Sep. 2019
  • But the statement also includes items that are easy to overlook or misinterpret.
    — Robert Powell, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The laws, which took effect in 2017, are straightforward requirements that would be hard to misinterpret, right?
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
  • His team’s research has shown that even when warning signs are posted, people often fail to notice them and misinterpret the signs.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2022
  • In addition, a row of numbers on the labels may have caused postal sorting machinery to misinterpret where the mail was supposed to go.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2020
  • The slow pace of this offseason shouldn’t be misinterpreted as lack of effort or vision.
    — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 8 July 2024
  • Through it all, Saleh is careful not to tarnish the faith, suggesting that Islam itself is not to blame for the ways that certain people misinterpret and abuse it.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 May 2022
  • Students in the pro-Palestinian groups have denied those claims and said the statement was misinterpreted.
    — Selina Wang, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Yet almost the same percentage felt there was a risk that people could misinterpret their results.
    — Noura Abul-Husn, STAT, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The report said Sanchez-Ramirez may have misinterpreted directions from a navigation app on his phone because of a lack of sleep and made the wrong turn onto the tracks.
    — Alexa Díazstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
  • Being sneaky could run afoul of local laws, or put you in danger if officers misinterpret your moves.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The state said the data errors were inadvertent and Golding was misinterpreting them, but the judge in the Coleman case disagreed.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 28 Dec. 2019
  • This increases the risk that others will misinterpret your actions, or perhaps the other way around.
    — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2024
  • At any moment, there might be as many as three characters out of six (Phoebe, Joey, Monica) whose comedic function was to stupidly misinterpret the last thing that was said.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 July 2019
  • To make any sweeping judgments about any one mindset present in the film is to misinterpret it, to see it from a narrow perspective instead of the big picture, when in fact, no one is right and no one is wrong.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Krazy Kat is a black cat forever in love with Ignatz, a white mouse who serially hits Krazy with bricks, an action that Krazy misinterprets as a sign of love.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023

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