How to Use mislead in a Sentence

mislead

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  • 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 | McAson@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • As a result, readers of the second-generation post are misled, as was the case here.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 13 May 2024
  • But mixed in with questions of her decision to travel were misleading claims about cuts to the city’s fire department budget that Ms. Bass approved last year.
    — Gina Cherelus, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • He will be remembered for misleading the public on his mental acuity, for enabling genocide in Gaza, for a terrible military exit from Afghanistan, and for inflation.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Jan. 2025

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