How to Use mislead in a Sentence

mislead

verb

• We believe that her comments were deliberately meant to mislead the public.
• We believe that her comments were deliberately meant to mislead.
• Fast-food restaurants have all kinds of ways to mislead us.
  — Leonard Greene, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
• The main point of the deception isn’t to mislead callers about his name.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• As a result, readers of the later post are misled, as was the case here.
  — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• McCutcheon said there was no effort to mislead the Democrats.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 6 May 2021
• The study did not conclude whether or not the videos intended to mislead.
  — Connor Goodwin, WSJ, 21 May 2021
• My work focused on the use of fake accounts to mislead the social discourse.
  — Karishma Mehrotra, Quartz, 11 Nov. 2021
• The Trump team displays misleading information on the screen in the court room.
  — Dan Alexander, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• This wouldn’t be the first time Trump or one of his allies misled his own legal team about the documents.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
• But those claims mislead about what's driving shortages of some products across the USA.
  — Daniel Funke, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2021
• Marvel likes to mislead fans with its MCU trailers, and that’s what Sony might be doing.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 22 Mar. 2022
• The creator of the Pope Coat image wasn’t attempting to mislead anyone.
  — WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023
• In the clip, Rodrigo gathers in a room full of her ex’s other scorned and misled exes.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
• The biggest prizes in showbiz mislead consumers to think that all is right with the industry.
  — Armond White, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022
• Plug It was fined for misleading consumers about its fees.
  — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
• But don’t be misled by that martial tone, any more than by the set, the Marines and the military cut of Jessica Jahn’s costumes for the men.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• Like us all, Millie is surprised to find out that Freddie was not the one misleading Janet.
  — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
• Still, some who’ve followed the Nicaragua route say they were misled about potential dangers and the future awaiting them in the U.S.
  — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
• In the years since the murder, Madison was misled about how her father really died.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
• But Gutierrez agreed with the NFL that the jurors were bewildered and misled during the trial.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2024
• False claims about vaccines Vaccines are the No. 1 topic of misleading health claims.
  — Monica Wang, The Conversation, 13 Dec. 2023
• But from the Oval Office, Trump has consistently tried to mislead the nation about the outcome.
  — Amanda Seitz, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Dec. 2020
• Throughout the journey, her husband and the Dispatch pushed her to win the race, Russell Mock even mislead his wife about Smith’s whereabouts.
  — Lucia Cheng, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022
• As a result, readers of the second-generation post are misled, as was the case here.
  — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• That could not only clear up the issue for the jury, but may leave the jury thinking that the defense lawyer was trying to mislead them.
  — Jennifer Rodgers, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• The fund’s managers rely on price-to-earnings (P/E) and price-to-book (P/B) ratios, which can mislead investors.
  — David Trainer, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Some viewers felt misled: had the rumors been stoked to increase ratings?
  — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2024
• Trump sued the outlet for $10 billion in a Texas federal court just days before the November election, alleging the editing of the interview intentionally confused and misled the public.
  — Geoff Harris, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2025
• Federal employees shouldn't be misled by slick talk from unelected billionaires and their lackeys.
  — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 3 Mar 2025