How to Use misrepresent in a Sentence

misrepresent

verb

• The movie deliberately misrepresents the facts about her life.
• The company is accused of misrepresenting its earnings.
• In other words, the purpose is not to misrepresent the facts.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 May 2022
• Regardless of how - and why - others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth.
  — Billboard, 28 July 2021
• On that point, Biden may be right on the surface, but misrepresenting the numbers.
  — Abigail Abrams, Time, 13 Sep. 2019
• Barrett even faults the Fifth Circuit, and the right-wing trial judge who first heard this case, for misrepresenting many key facts.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 26 June 2024
• But Samsung and Huawei are seen to have stepped over line, to have cheated or misrepresented their own product.
  — WIRED, 19 Mar. 2023
• He’s attacked the band, and he’s done it in a slanderous way, with false accusations and misrepresenting the facts to the fans.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Apr. 2023
• But users could still misrepresent their birth dates when setting up an account.
  — Tatum Hunter, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
• Trump echoed the same in his tweets, insisting the deal was being misrepresented and demanding more credit from the press.
  — Jill Colvin, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2019
• There is worse, though: Catchy names and presentations that misrepresent a fund's returns and risks.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• Many people believe that the 12 days of Christmas is a lead-up to December 25 (that’s thanks to popular songs and movies tending to misrepresent it).
  — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 11 Nov. 2019
• But, others still misrepresent the stance taken by Black Lives Matter.
  — Adrienne Dunn, USA TODAY, 23 May 2021
• Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunks Our rating: False The post is misrepresenting a Texas bill that hasn't been signed into law.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
• Some have misrepresented an image of a SpaceX rocket launch as evidence that some kind of weapon used a beam to cause an explosion on the island.
  — NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
• Many people believe that the 12 days of Christmas are the days leading to December 25 (that’s thanks to popular songs and movies tending to misrepresent it).
  — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 6 Nov. 2020
• And the loudest voices to weigh in on it so far—Barr and Trump—have flagrantly misrepresented its conclusions.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 23 July 2019
• The game disguises luck as skill, misrepresents the American Dream, and promises wealth and power at the expense of others.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• As part of a plea deal, eight other misdemeanor counts of misrepresenting himself as a doctor and a felony count of burglary were dismissed.
  — Daily Pilot, 27 Sep. 2019
• Shame on them for co-opting and misrepresenting their voices.
  — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• Has there ever been as clear-cut a case of House and Senate members misrepresenting the interests of their constituents?
  — Stephen Moore, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2023
• Dacosta stopped a few blocks away, then kept going and later misrepresented what happened to police, the sources said.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
• Body cameras were intended to keep an eye on cops, but have also been used by police to misrepresent their encounters with the public.
  — Sidney Fussell, Wired, 20 July 2021
• Fox said the woman’s email has been misrepresented as being a key source of Fox’s reporting on Dominion.
  — David Bauder, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
• And as Trump’s record shows, people who are prepared to misrepresent the truth as a means to – or excuse for – abusing their power once will almost certainly do so again.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 12 May 2022
• In a sense, isn't tipping giving a business permission to misrepresent its prices?
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 26 June 2020
• Scientists whose work was cited in that draft said their findings had been misrepresented, and also called out flaws in the analysis.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
• But don’t order a counterfeit, waste my officer’s time, break the law and misrepresent yourself.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2021
• To categorize these words as solely Gen Z or Gen Alpha slang misrepresents their history, and over-simplifies the way in which language evolves and grows.
  — Casey Clark, Parents, 15 Oct. 2024
• In fact, all of our cases above feature Christian-clergy plaintiffs who do not want the government to misuse or misrepresent their faith and care deeply about their neighbors’ religious freedom.
  — Rachel Laser, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024