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How to use mismatch in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb, noun

Mismatch means to match unsuitably; to fail to match. Example: “After all the trepidation born of Holland's toils home and away against these opponents in qualification for Euro 2012, and the pockmarked nature of the pitch, this was exposed as a mismatch from the opening exchanges.”

Examples of mismatch by meaning

nounSomething that does not match; something dissimilar, inappropriate or unsuitable.

  • After all the trepidation born of Holland's toils home and away against these opponents in qualification for Euro 2012, and the pockmarked nature of the pitch, this was exposed as a mismatch from the opening exchanges.2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian

More sentences with mismatch

  • Sure, mismatching isn't ideal, but I'd much rather have mismatched decent tyres than matched AliBaba-brand-it-yourself ditchfinders.2016 June 7, Adrian, “Re: Tyre noise”, in uk.rec.cars.maintenance (Usenet). From the entry ditchfinder
  • But the impedance mismatch between SQL and Java was no better than between SQL and other languages.2002, Jim Melton, Advanced SQL:1999: Understanding Object-Relational and Other Advanced Features, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 353. From the entry impedance mismatch
  • Some argue that having impedance mismatch is difficult for programming intensive applications.1997, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Data Management Systems: Evolution and Interoperation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry impedance mismatch
  • That mismatch offers political entrepreneurs a chance to try to shape the wet clay of Burnhamism around their own priorities.2026 July 9, “Is AI writing taking over Westminster?”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Burnhamism
  • Point (1) seems to imply that one may have a false judgement because of a mismatch between different criteria for truth.2017, Attila Németh, Epicurus on the Self, page 42. From the entry prolepsis
  • Mismatch your loads, or mismix your concrete, and floors tilt.1995, Stephen M. Pompea, Current Perspectives in Astronomy and Physics: Selected Readings, page 245. From the entry mismix
  • Explanations for the mismatch between mother preference and host suitability can include threat of hyperparasitoids, host defence, and learning of plant-host complex cues.2015 August 14, “Aphid Parasitoid Mothers Don't Always Know Best through the Whole Host Selection Process”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry hyperparasitoid
  • With pro schedules never cast in granite even at season’s start, a team’s preseason string of games was a makeshift disasterpiece of mismatches.2004, Neil W. Macdonald, “9. Picked Nines and the Pick of Nines”, in The League That Lasted: 1876 and the Founding of the National League…. From the entry disasterpiece
  • Hypochromicity studies have shown that these duplices are less stable than either the totally complementary duplex or those containing A.C. and G.T mismatches.1984, Biotechnology Research Abstracts, CSA, page 2. From the entry duplices
  • This combination of business and leisure travel — known as “bleisure” — targets the mismatch of parents with limited time off and kids who are out of school.[2025 August 5, Emily Goligoski, “How to Create a Family ‘Bleisure’ Trip”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06…. From the entry bleisure
  • Repairing the mismatch entailed giving up declension in favour of a simple number contrast where the semantic nondefaultness of plurality matches the inflectedness of the plural form.2017, Nikolas Gisborne, Anrew Hippisley, Defaults in Morphological Theory, page 40. From the entry inflectedness
  • When the prehung steel door was installed, its frame was cemented in place, so there was no way to replace the door, despite the architectural mismatch.2007 January 25, Craig Kellogg, “Room to Improve”, in New York Times. From the entry prehung
  • Some users may state that this is a 'skill issue.' However, seeing so many players complain about their skill mismatch and inability to win a single match is somewhat concerning.2023 January 2, Matthew Wilkins, “Is Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 1 the sweatiest season ever?”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original…. From the entry skill issue
  • I had a sudden sense of mismatch, of profound incongruity—between what I imagined I felt and what I actually saw, between what I had thought and what I now found.1984, Oliver Sacks, chapter 2, in A Leg to Stand On, New York: Summit Books, page 69. From the entry illude

Meaning of mismatch

  1. verb To match unsuitably; to fail to match.
  2. noun Something that does not match; something dissimilar, inappropriate or unsuitable.

Full definition of mismatch

Questions about mismatch in a sentence

How do you use mismatch in a sentence?
Mismatch is used as a verb and noun. For example: “After all the trepidation born of Holland's toils home and away against these opponents in qualification for Euro 2012, and the pockmarked nature of the pitch, this was exposed as a mismatch from the opening exchanges.”
What is a short sentence with mismatch?
“Mismatch your loads, or mismix your concrete, and floors tilt.”
What does mismatch mean?
Mismatch means to match unsuitably; to fail to match.

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