How to Use mishandle in a Sentence

mishandle

verb

• The shortstop mishandled the throw.
• The quarterback fumbled when he mishandled the snap.
• Apples are easily bruised when they are mishandled.
• The police mishandled the investigation.
• In the fourth, the Broncos mishandled a snap and were unable to get a punt off from their own goal line.
  — Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Some of the uptick in bear nuisance reports is caused by campers who mishandle their food.
  — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
• Hurts mishandled two snaps against the Green Bay Packers, once under center and once in the shotgun when the snap was early.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
• The odds that tonight's winner might mishandle their winnings?
  — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE.com, 29 July 2022
• Even after that, other cases of abuse were mishandled in the late 1990s or kept under wraps.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2023
• All of this has been mishandled and that can be laid at the feet of Senator Dianne Feinstein.
  — Fox News, 20 Sep. 2018
• Farrell opened the scoring 1:23 into the first period when the rookie took a shot from along the boards that was mishandled by Lyon and went in.
  — Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• In poll after poll, city residents have said the city is on the wrong track and that Breed is mishandling the city’s recovery from the pandemic.
  — Heather Knight, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• But a bad snap was mishandled and Danvers suddenly had the ball on the Marblehead 16-yard line with 16 seconds to play.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2019
• Glenelg mishandled the snap on the point-after attempt, however, and the Owls remained one score behind.
  — Megan Woodward, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 Sep. 2019
• But Moore mishandled it, recovered and then hurried a throw to first base that sailed over Healy’s head for his first error that allowed a run to score.
  — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2019
• The abuse, mishandling, and the unaccountability of the funding is the problem.
  — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
• The good news: Fewer bags were mishandled, fewer passengers were bumped from flights and fewer complaints were filed with the DOT.
  — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
• And a pivotal lead — one that would much later crack the case — was apparently mishandled.
  — Gus Garcia-Roberts, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• Details on the film are scant, but Gawande’s book explores the concepts of death and aging and how the medical profession tends to mishandle both.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2022
• In the past, there have been instances of nuclear bases like Minot mishandling nuclear weapons.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
• Tech giants such as Google and Facebook have come under fire for mishandling these issues.
  — Ben Brody, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
• One prominent economist agrees—and has a scalding take on how the Fed has mishandled the economy, not once but twice.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• But models tend to mishandle the negative feedback of more sun-blocking clouds that has worked since creation.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2021
• The incumbent, Lori Lightfoot, mishandled the issue so badly that her re-election bid collapsed in the first round of voting.
  — wsj.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• South Alabama mishandled another snap on a 46-yard field goal attempt in the second, but drove 90 yards for a touchdown late in the quarter.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 8 Sep. 2019
• The report includes allegations of coverup and mishandling as well as abuse.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
• That report came off the heels of police apologizing for mishandling a case in May where another woman said her drink was drugged at a rooftop bar at the venue.
  — Lavendrick Smith, charlotteobserver, 20 June 2018
• The most ominous threat against the relievers came in the top of the 12th, when Guerra mishandled a routine Bryce Grudzielanek grounder at third, allowing the leadoff hitter to reach base on an error.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2023
• His attorneys have previously argued the DNA may have been planted at the scene and that the state has mishandled all the evidence for the defense to review.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 31 May 2024
• The airline came under public fire over a 2023 video that showed crew members mishandling a passenger's wheelchair.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024