How to Use mishandle in a Sentence

mishandle

verb
Definition of mishandlenext
Synonyms for mishandlenext
  • The shortstop mishandled the throw.
  • The quarterback fumbled when he mishandled the snap.
  • Apples are easily bruised when they are mishandled.
  • The police mishandled the investigation.
  • In the fourth, the Broncos mishandled a snap and were unable to get a punt off from their own goal line.
    — Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Some of the uptick in bear nuisance reports is caused by campers who mishandle their food.
    — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
  • With two out, Gordon hit a grounder to the right side, but Jimenez mishandled the toss from first baseman John Hicks for an error, loading the bases.
    — Noah Trister, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2018
  • Hurts mishandled two snaps against the Green Bay Packers, once under center and once in the shotgun when the snap was early.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The odds that tonight's winner might mishandle their winnings?
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE.com, 29 July 2022
  • The Dodgers then came back to tie it in the eighth when Ohtani lined a ball off the center-field fence for a double and then raced to third when Gleyber Torres mishandled the relay.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Even after that, other cases of abuse were mishandled in the late 1990s or kept under wraps.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2023
  • All of this has been mishandled and that can be laid at the feet of Senator Dianne Feinstein.
    — Fox News, 20 Sep. 2018
  • Farrell opened the scoring 1:23 into the first period when the rookie took a shot from along the boards that was mishandled by Lyon and went in.
    — Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In poll after poll, city residents have said the city is on the wrong track and that Breed is mishandling the city’s recovery from the pandemic.
    — Heather Knight, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • But a bad snap was mishandled and Danvers suddenly had the ball on the Marblehead 16-yard line with 16 seconds to play.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Glenelg mishandled the snap on the point-after attempt, however, and the Owls remained one score behind.
    — Megan Woodward, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 Sep. 2019
  • But Moore mishandled it, recovered and then hurried a throw to first base that sailed over Healy’s head for his first error that allowed a run to score.
    — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2019
  • The abuse, mishandling, and the unaccountability of the funding is the problem.
    — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The good news: Fewer bags were mishandled, fewer passengers were bumped from flights and fewer complaints were filed with the DOT.
    — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
  • And a pivotal lead — one that would much later crack the case — was apparently mishandled.
    — Gus Garcia-Roberts, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Details on the film are scant, but Gawande’s book explores the concepts of death and aging and how the medical profession tends to mishandle both.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2022
  • In the past, there have been instances of nuclear bases like Minot mishandling nuclear weapons.
    — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Most Catholics would agree that any bishop found mishandling abuse claims or shuffling around abusive priests should be removed.
    — James Martin, WSJ, 20 May 2018
  • Tech giants such as Google and Facebook have come under fire for mishandling these issues.
    — Ben Brody, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • One prominent economist agrees—and has a scalding take on how the Fed has mishandled the economy, not once but twice.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 30 May 2023
  • But models tend to mishandle the negative feedback of more sun-blocking clouds that has worked since creation.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2021
  • And in the case of Bryant, his on-pitch potential comes with the possibility that his development, in the wrong hands, could be mishandled.
    — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 14 May 2018
  • The incumbent, Lori Lightfoot, mishandled the issue so badly that her re-election bid collapsed in the first round of voting.
    — wsj.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • South Alabama mishandled another snap on a 46-yard field goal attempt in the second, but drove 90 yards for a touchdown late in the quarter.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2019
  • The airline came under public fire over a 2023 video that showed crew members mishandling a passenger's wheelchair.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 23 Oct. 2024

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