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Examples of mishandle in a Sentence
The police mishandled the investigation.
Apples are easily bruised when they are mishandled.
The shortstop mishandled the throw.
The quarterback fumbled when he mishandled the snap.
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Several frequent passengers described being bossed around and mishandled by rude or disinterested drivers.
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Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 June 2024
How the Paramount brain trust mishandled success is another matter that Bart writes about below, following a flush 1975 when seemingly everything the studio made turned into a hit.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 June 2024
Except for a few outliers, including Maryland’s own Larry Hogan, the former governor running for U.S. Senate, GOP politicians seem dismissive of all of Trump’s criminal indictments, from mishandling classified documents to trying to overturn the 2020 election.
—Steven P. Grossman, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024
Apple has built its reputation on protecting its users’ data privacy and keeping that data on the actual device rather than sending it to a cloud server where it could get mishandled.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 11 June 2024
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Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 June 2024
How the Paramount brain trust mishandled success is another matter that Bart writes about below, following a flush 1975 when seemingly everything the studio made turned into a hit.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 June 2024
Except for a few outliers, including Maryland’s own Larry Hogan, the former governor running for U.S. Senate, GOP politicians seem dismissive of all of Trump’s criminal indictments, from mishandling classified documents to trying to overturn the 2020 election.
—Steven P. Grossman, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024
Apple has built its reputation on protecting its users’ data privacy and keeping that data on the actual device rather than sending it to a cloud server where it could get mishandled.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 11 June 2024
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“Mishandle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mishandle. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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mishandle
verb
mis·han·dle
(ˈ)mis-ˈhan-dᵊl 
1
: to treat roughly : maltreat
2
: to manage wrongly
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