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.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Brees told the Union-Tribune the jeweler has misrepresented the facts.
  — Morgan Cook, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 June 2018
• 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
• This meme was fake and sought to misrepresent the original and this falsehood sought to enrage NRA supporters.
  — Jennifer Grygiel, Teen Vogue, 19 May 2018
• 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
• The clip in the Instagram post also came from the news conference, and the English-language post misrepresents the contents of Sheinbaum's remarks.
  — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
• 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 question at the center of the Rhinelander trial was this: Did Alice misrepresent herself to her husband as white and withhold her true racial ancestry?
  — Bryan Greene, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2024
• And tight end Zach Ertz also expressed his frustration with Fox for misrepresenting the facts.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• 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
• And anyone claiming to have a manuscript is misrepresenting themselves.
  — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
• Stores are not legally required to accept exchanges or give refunds unless the merchandise was defective or misrepresented.
  — Rick Walz, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025