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How to use misread in a sentence

17 example sentences · verb, noun

Misread means to read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of. Example: “Similarly, she misreads her one black colleague, Pompey, whom she wrongly believes has sabotaged the elevator she is accused of having misinspected.”

Examples of misread by meaning

verbTo read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.

  • Similarly, she misreads her one black colleague, Pompey, whom she wrongly believes has sabotaged the elevator she is accused of having misinspected.2020, Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn, Engaging Tradition, Making It New, page 146

nounAn instance of reading wrongly.

  • Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites.1983, Lawrence Calmus, The business guide to small computers, page 143
  • The grateful mark will not question the grifter's tricky misread or miscount.2011, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket

More sentences with misread

  • I am probably the most misread, misreviewed, and misunderstood novelist now writing.2014, James M. Cain, Past All Dishonor. From the entry misreview
  • Similarly, Rebeca's text was not only misstapled but misread as lacking coherence.2014, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Erica Halverson, Time and Space in Literacy Research, page 90. From the entry misstaple
  • You did not misread the map, nor did you misplot your course.2001, Thomas Myron Williams, Thomas Williams, The Devil's Mouth, page 405. From the entry misplot
  • My words are not to be misread as a veiled attack on their integrity or their honour.1904, Robert Anderson, chapter III, in Pseudo-criticism: Or The Higher Criticism and Its Counterfeit, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry impeachment
  • But that would require a willful misreading of a document that all but declares research has to affirm a left-wing perspective.2021 September 22, Jonathan Chait, “What Jonathan Franzen and the Left Get Wrong About Free Speech”, in Intelligencer, retrieved 07 Sep 2024. From the entry sanewash
  • Or perhaps the nurse didn't check the drug name properly, the technician misread the prescription, or someone misstocked the shelves?2013, S. Lochlann Jain, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us, page 90. From the entry misstock
  • It occurs when a person's brain believes that person is at risk again because it misreads an external signal or trigger.2010, Liz Royle, Catherine Kerr, Integrating EMDR Into Your Practice, page 35. From the entry hyperarousal
  • No, Dave Martin, my editor, misread something I wrote and said that the channel spacing was 40 kHz..2002 December 11, Jim Weir, “Channel spacing”, in rec.aviation.owning (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025. From the entry blushedly
  • The defense had misreads and mistackles in abundance.1998 September 9, The Grizzly. From the entry mistackle
  • Some, of course, will argue that I have misread and mislistened - - but I don ' t think so.1984, Paul K. Davis, Rand's Experience in Applying Artificial Intelligence, page 5. From the entry mislisten
  • Did I misread or mislisten to the two positions?1981, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights…. From the entry mislisten
  • The dictater frequently misreads or mistalks a word.1904 October, Charles G. Mutzenbergh, “The Stenographer”, in The Phonographic Magazine and National Shorthand Reporter. From the entry mistalk
  • Images were surely often misread — and misvenerated — and by the sixteenth century reformers were all too ready to exploit such mistakes.2004, T. A. Ralph Evans, Lordship and Learning: Studies in Memory of Trevor Aston, page 201. From the entry misvenerate
  • If his collaborative projects in visual media diminish Wright's anxiety about misrepresentation, so too does his literal distance from the audience that might potentially misread (or misview) his work.2013, Emily J. Lordi, Black Resonance, page 32. From the entry misview

Meaning of misread

  1. verb To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.
  2. noun An instance of reading wrongly.

Full definition of misread

Questions about misread in a sentence

How do you use misread in a sentence?
Misread is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Similarly, she misreads her one black colleague, Pompey, whom she wrongly believes has sabotaged the elevator she is accused of having misinspected.”
What is a short sentence with misread?
“Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites.”
What does misread mean?
Misread means to read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.

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