How to Use misjudge in a Sentence

misjudge

verb
Definition of misjudgenext
Synonyms for misjudgenext
  • The pilot misjudged the landing.
  • The outfielder misjudged the fly ball and it went over his head.
  • I can see that I've completely misjudged you. I apologize.
  • Woods was in the fairway, then misjudged the wind on his second shot and hit it over the green.
    — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 14 June 2018
  • In the game's first at-bat, Slaughter misjudged a popup close to the LSU dugout.
    — Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 5 June 2017
  • The soldiers who set the fuse misjudge the timing, and one of them, Lieutenant Charles Pulis, dies in the blast.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • And there is a part of me that feels the Rangers may have, in some way, misjudged the market for free agent hitters.
    — Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Hernández ran to catch it and simply misjudged how the ball would bounce.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 8 June 2024
  • Giolito was gone by the fifth, when Thompson misjudged a fly and the Pirates took the lead.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2018
  • When the Uruguayan striker rolled across the area, Samba misjudged his lunge to leave Mbappe with an easy tap in from yards out.
    — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Some misjudged the distance and left a faint imprint of nose on butter.
    — Molly Young, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Shortly after that, a young crow misjudged things and flew into the back of my head.
    — Susanna Forrest, Longreads, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Second baseman Austin Bain slapped a first-pitch double over the head of Frizzell, who misjudged the play.
    — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Yet the majority misjudged the timing and missed the cut off.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The authorities have from the start misjudged the depth of the anger driving people into the streets.
    — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • And that was before Phil Ervin misjudged then dropped a flyball, and Phil Gosselin dropped a throw to 1st base.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Eugénie Le Sommer faced an open net in the 58th minute after Naeher misjudged a cross, and shot the ball out of bounds.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Pro Soccer USA, 29 June 2019
  • The bridge watch on the Fitzgerald apparently missed the course change by the Crystal or misjudged the speed of the ship and thought that the destroyer would pass ahead of the freighter.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 20 June 2017
  • Whether a breeze pushed the ball back or Panik misjudged it, the result favored San Francisco.
    — Mike Digiovanna, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Alex Bregman drove him in with a double that Justin Upton misjudged in left field.
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 18 July 2019
  • The bank's collapse raised questions as to which banks were misjudging the cost and lifespan of their deposits.
    — Conrad Hoyt, Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But Fir Tree and others who pursued this trade misjudged investors’ appetite for many of the stocks.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 20 May 2018
  • The second was misjudging the difficulty of the swim around Hawksnest Point, which would take us to a beach on the other side of the rocky point.
    — Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Justin Timberlake misjudged a fun moment with Travis Kelce — and ended up on the ground.
    — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Brinson appeared to misjudge the ball, allowing it to go over his head.
    — Clark Spencer, miamiherald, 3 June 2018
  • According to police reports, the driver misjudged the depth of the ditch along the road, drove into the ditch, then hit the embankment.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2019
  • French skier Kevin Rolland first alerted the paramedics when the Sochi bronze medalist misjudged his landing at the top of the halfpipe.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 22 Feb. 2018
  • After misjudging the distance of the punt, Agnew lunged forward to snag it off his shoestrings near the 12-yard line.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Or did countless observers drastically misjudge a politician who’d been in the public eye for years?
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Recent examples of high-profile brands misjudging consumer response include Apple’s Crush!
    — Michelle Greenwald, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024

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