How to Use mislead in a Sentence

mislead

verb
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • As a result, readers of the second-generation post are misled, as was the case here.
    — Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
  • As a result, readers of the second-generation post are misled, as was the case here.
    — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
  • Don’t let the shade name mislead you either, as the suit is undoubtedly a bright magenta.
    — Kayla Blanton, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
  • And in a reminder of how averages may mislead, the day’s average — the average of the warm high and the chilly low — came out just about average.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Users can provide feedback about misleading answers to the Post via a feedback form.
    — Sara Fischer, Axios, 9 July 2024
  • Eventually, Pearson was fined $1 million by the SEC for misleading investors about the breach.
    — Kemala Karmen, New York Daily News, 18 Dec. 2024
  • In a prepared statement in November, Werfel said businesses should review their claims and see if they were misled by firms marketing the tax credit.
    — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2024

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