Mistook in a sentence

According to one influential line of argument, Piketty mistook why returns on capital were higher than returns to labor in many industrialized countries in the decades after World War II.

A local journalist mistook the spotted jaguar on their shirts for a puma, handing the visitors a moniker that has stuck ever since.

A man in his 40s was crushed to death by a robot at a produce-sorting facility in South Korea Tuesday after the machine apparently mistook him for a box of vegetables.

At the Munich Stadium, where they had gone to watch a game, the German kids mistook him for the African-American actor, Richard Roundtree, popularly known as Shaft He truly looked very much like Shaft in the late seventies.

Back in July 2022, Margaret Barnes had been visiting the seaside town of from her home in Birmingham when she mistook Redfern's home for her accommodation that was just a few doors away.

During the Persian Gulf War, the United States military fired friendly fire when the American tank forces mistook a fairly harmless grenade assault as the tank fire of the enemy.

Gina mistook Moira’s distraction for contemplation and decided then that Moira was someone to be privileged with the kind of information Gina had spent years acquiring.

Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid mistook Harry Styles’ tattoos as part of his outfit live on air.

He mistook the device for a camera, and accused the family of trying to take pictures of them.

In the second episode of the anime season, entitled "Two Degrees of Separation," Pikachu once again accidentally destroys a bike, this time using Thunderbolt when Dawn mistook it for a wild Pikachu and attacked.

It comes three years after she accidentally shot and killed 20-year-old black man Daunte when she mistook her Taser for her gun during a traffic stop on April 11, 2020.

Kenney woke up during the night; presumably disoriented and in search of the facilities, he mistook a French window that was eighteen inches from the floor for a door and fell six stories to his death.

Many viewers mistook Lydia Tár for a real composer due to the film’s recreation of her achievements; similarly, Daniel feels like he was lifted from a historical record about the dawn of the oil surge.

Star Aussie batter Steve Smith erred ahead of the ongoing 3rd ODI against India as he mistook the venue as Indore instead of Rajkot.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted that the Israeli military had killed three young men in the Shejaiya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli soldier mistook them for terrorists.

The police watchdog has announced it will investigate an incident in which a 13-year-old black child was surrounded by armed police after an officer mistook his water pistol for a real gun.

They initially mistook her for a discarded mannequin, according to news reports at the time.

This happened after Amanda Waller mistook the party-loving anthropomorphic animals for deadly metahumans.

A lucky hyena narrowly escaped being eaten by an angry hippo – that it mistook for being dead.

A man with a prosthetic leg and under the influence of cannabis mistook his car's accelerator for the brake, killing a young boy in a car park.