How to Use misread in a Sentence

misread

verb

• 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
• Cranley is aware of how he's perceived, but counters that people misread him.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Kübler-Ross has been widely misread by the public: her original research was on how people coped with the prospect of their own death, not with the loss of another.
  — Cody Delistraty, The New Yorker, 22 June 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024