Want to use Mistaken correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like wrong or false.
Mistaken in a sentence
Related words
Mistaken meaning
past participle of mistake
Example sentences (20)
Eleanor told the caller that she was mistaken, as she didn't have an Airbnb stay booked and wasn't engaged, either.
During the podcast, Kate observed that Richard could easily be mistaken for someone much younger than his 68 years.
The result is a hilarious succession of mistaken identities and crossed-wire schemes by heroes and villains alike.
He found it more 'believable' that she could be mistaken for his sister because he looks more mature than before.
If anybody had this intention that they would evade police action by setting on fire police station….they are mistaken.
Symptoms of cancer in teenagers and young adults can often be mistaken for other illnesses, infections or growing pains.
People are being urged to look out for an early warning sign of bone cancer that is sometimes mistaken for growing pains.
A teenage boy stabbed to death in Birmingham city centre died in a case of mistaken identity, police believe.
His playful staging brings a snazzy panache to the comic reversals of fortune and mistaken-identity gambits.
Chronic pain patients desperate for relief are easily mistaken for people who are misusing or selling drugs.
But destigmatizing the use of the drugs that are destroying their life is a profoundly mistaken approach.
A case of mistaken identity led to a peacemaker being knocked unconscious after one punch broke his jaw.
If a phrase incorporates a letter from one among your guesses however it’s within the mistaken place, it should seem in yellow.
It is no coincidence that Jones’s books are peppered with adults who are tyrannical, or vain and capricious, or simply mistaken.
The banning of the film can be seen as both a necessary response and a mistaken blame of movies for the encouragement of crimes.
The Eastern Milk Snake, Eastern Kingsnake, Corn Snake, and the Black Rat Snake are often mistaken for rattlesnakes in New Jersey.
The results could not be mistaken for actual Drake tracks; they tend toward the lo-fi and the absurd.
Vincent Fuller attacked cars with non-white drivers and stabbed a Bulgarian teenager in the mistaken belief that he was a Muslim.
Further, she says, the current UCP should not be mistaken for the PCs of the Peter Lougheed era.
Greg Dyke, the BBC chief between 2000 and 2004 and a former FA chairman, said the broadcaster was 'mistaken' in standing Lineker down.
Common combinations with mistaken
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- mistaken for 87×
- be mistaken 40×
- of mistaken 22×
- mistaken identity 19×
- being mistaken 11×
- the mistaken 11×
- were mistaken 8×
- was mistaken 7×
- been mistaken 7×
- mistaken belief 7×
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