How to Use misread in a Sentence

misread

verb
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  • They have misread the lessons of the past.
  • Politicians may have misread the mood of the public.
  • I guess I misread the instructions.
  • I badly misread the situation.
  • That brought up Gennett, who sent a fly ball to left that Thames both misread and lost in the sun.
    — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2018
  • And to try to lump all of them in together is to misread this movement.
    — Salena Zito, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Again, there is truth to the insights: Signals can be misread.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Either way, don’t be coy or vague — that could be misread.
    — The Seattle Times, 13 Sep. 2017
  • There was hubris, and contempt for Arabs in general, and this led people to misread the signs.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • At a distance, and at a glance, people will often misread their clothes as frumpy.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Jeff McNeil then doubled on a ball that Aaron Judge misread.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
  • But Warren and the Big Ten presidents who hired him have misread the room at every turn in this crazy year.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The Davos crowd, though, has been known to misread economic signals.
    — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
  • One was a double on a line drive that Alex Verdugo misread with two outs in the seventh inning.
    — Jorge Castillo, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
  • But Fisher-Davis misread it as a call to foul McIntosh — a decision that cost them in a big way.
    — Ben Shpigel, Zach Schonbrun and Pat Borzi, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
  • Trump badly misread the blocking that unfolded in the new year.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Jan. 2018
  • One was a double on a line drive that Alex Verdugo should’ve caught but misread with two outs in the seventh inning.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 19 June 2019
  • But Barnhart misread the mis-read, and got thrown out while trying to jog into second.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • Yelich misread the ball off the bat of Tyler Flowers and started back before charging in too late to prevent the ball from dropping in.
    — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 June 2017
  • But even before the debate, many Democrats worried Biden and his team were misreading the dynamics of the race.
    — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 July 2024
  • And the debaters still misread what happened decades later.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Fastening stickers on a stop sign can make an AI misread it.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Prime Minister Theresa May misread the mood of the country and last week voters punished her for it.
    — Charlotte Ryan, Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2017
  • And what were the results of misreading the Internet, mobile, and social?
    — Kenneth I. Chenault, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • These readers and academics misread both Alcott and Jo.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
  • However, like Peter's post, this was just a case of fans misreading things.
    — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 25 Feb. 2020
  • In Week 4, Pollard misread a kickoff and fielded it late, forcing Dallas to open at its 12.
    — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Prince Philip misread the public antipathy to the royal family in the days after Diana’s death in a car crash in 1997.
    — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Tapestry and Capri, however, have argued that this misreads the realities of the market, where customers shop high and low at same time and where the average out-the-door price of a Michael Kors bag last year was $92 anyway.
    — Evan Clark, WWD, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Off' Were Patton and Rae to end their movie at the long farewell at the event’s close, it might have been misread as equating the dance with closure: Dad and daughter got one magical night together, and every rift was magically repaired.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2024

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