How to Use misdirect in a Sentence

misdirect

verb

• Their mail was misdirected to our address.
• If he tells you he's not interested, he's trying to misdirect you.
• Magritte’s world is a hall of mirrors, but even his mirrors misdirect.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
• Many others wondered whether the shooting would misdirect blame from their peers to them.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• The Heat know just how to bust Ellington loose and even more important: when to misdirect the defense instead.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The prey emits a glowing fluid or a cloud of sparks to misdirect the predator from its real location.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 2 May 2019
• During the War of 1812, locals were said to have fooled the British by hanging lanterns high in trees and elsewhere to misdirect enemy gunfire.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• Now translucency is a design flourish, a way to direct or misdirect the eye.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
• To fight the infection, the body produces inflammation, which may be misdirected to the nerve that controls movement of the face.
  — Sarah Klein, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2017
• The play-fake followed by keeper/rollout action misdirected and slowed the Eagles’ four-man pass rush.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• As in all the best heist flicks, Goldhaber makes sure to misdirect the audience with some choice red herrings and cliffhangers, nearly all of which end with a genuine surprise.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• But that anger might be misdirected, because the Seahawks do invest in their linemen.
  — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 28 Apr. 2017
• But the fact that these films have some high ambition doesn't negate that the ambition is largely misplaced, or at least misdirected.
  — Corey Atad, Esquire, 22 May 2017
• There is times that White House aides will tell me Trump has tweeted things to create distraction or storylines to misdirect the media.
  — NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017
• The series returns to Netflix on Sept. 21 with its teenage and adult characters equally as misdirected in their love lives and sense of purpose.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2023
• When Gabriel went in motion to try to misdirect the defense with jet-sweep action, Gardner-Johnson ended up in position to fill the hole Cohen tried to run through.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• The gameplay rewards cunning and deception with the freedom to pass more than once behind the line of scrimmage and misdirect opponents.
  — Gieson Cacho, Star Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
• Maybe the pandemic is revealing that the techlash was misdirected all along.
  — Elizabeth M. Renieris, Wired, 30 Apr. 2020
• In the 27th minute, the Whitecaps had their first real opportunity when Tony Tchani’s header from a freekick just outside the box was misdirected.
  — Luis Miguel Echegaray, SI.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• And then… And then… Trump’s survival has rested on his talent to distract his audiences and misdirect their attention.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 14 June 2023
• The brunt of viral replication might be over, leaving the immune frenzy to misdirect much of its havoc onto our own tissues instead.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2022
• This was a year of outrage: outrage at injustices beyond the art world, but too often misdirected inward.
  — Roberta Smith, Holland Cotter and Jason Farago, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
• Over the last two decades, Walker has been attacked by critics for reproducing racist tropes, but that outrage is misdirected.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• The researchers next screened for auto-antibodies, that is, antibodies spurred by the vaccine that are misdirected against a person's body rather than the virus.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
• Maguire also warned that ire over the automated tickets will be misdirected at him and other traffic cops.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2017
• Far greater resources and political will—albeit much of it misdirected—did not solve the previous war.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
• The struggle to be good is central to many of these stories, never mind that the characters’ good intentions are often misdirected or self-serving.
  — Helen Phillips, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
• The author's skillful ability to misdirect the reader to the point that everyone appears guilty is impressive.
  — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
• There were those who felt rumors of the Lakers’ concerns about Ball were simply smokescreens determined to misdirect other teams from the truth — that the Lakers were still most interested in Ball.
  — Tania Ganguli, latimes.com, 24 June 2017
• Doc Scratch was glib, providing little information in many words in order to misdirect the reader.
  — Mara Katz, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024