mistook in English

verb
1
be wrong about.
because I was inexperienced, I mistook the nature of our relationship
verb

Use "mistook" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "mistook" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "mistook", or refer to the context using the word "mistook" in the English Dictionary.

1. I mistook his glass for mine.

2. I mistook you for she.

3. She mistook my meaning entirely.

4. You mistook my meaning entirely.

5. I'm sorry. I mistook you for George.

6. Sorry, I mistook you for someone else.

7. I mistook Anna for his sister.

8. They mistook him for the manager.

9. She mistook him for the professor.

10. At first he mistook her yells for laughter.

11. I mistook the stick for a snake.

12. The traveller mistook the house for a hotel.

13. 25 She-Rachel-mistook his agitation for desire.

14. We mistook assumption that the price would fall.

15. A bleating sheep who mistook himself as fearsome wolf.

16. You mistook when you thought I laughed at you.

17. The government completely mistook the feeling of the country.

18. To her embarrassment, she mistook the date of the elections.

19. One night she heard an ambulance approach the hospital and mistook it for a fire engine.

20. But he escaped last night, and mistook Gay for some one else.

21. 8 Then Gemma, the girl Arthur loved, mistook Arthurfor the recreant.

22. People say I mistook the cellar door for the wine closet.

23. He was a very private man and some mistook this for aloofness.

24. For it mistook Darren and Michelle Fryer for a giant heating boiler.

25. The bird mistook the pebble for egg and tried to hatch it.

26. Ken mistook her concern, thinking she was interested in him for another reason.

27. (It was later realised that he mistook the Caesium for sodium and potassium.)

28. She thought his Catholicism, the emotion he mistook for faith, was a pity.

29. However, he mistook certain war-time conditions in the main belligerent states as being irreversible changes.

30. Thorns tore at her clothes while gnats and other insects mistook her ankles for food.

31. A woman mistook him for a well-known actor, and asked him for his autograph.

32. Near twilight, three Japanese planes incredibly mistook Yorktown for their own carrier and attempted to land.

33. Firstly, we mistook distillate for dreg during some phases of Marxism integrating with Chinese traditional culture.

34. At first, Orange mistook Briquet for a rock, but Briquet explained that he was not a …

35. When the registration forms came through, she apparently mistook them for election bumf and threw them away.

36. They have even taken up conversations for the other when some one mistook Kato for Wasswa or vice versa.

37. Betook •Betook, book, brook, Brooke, Chinook, chook, Coke, cook, Cooke, crook, forsook, Gluck, hook, look, mistook, nook, partook, rook, schnook, schtuck, Shilluk

38. Examples from the Corpus Bumf • When the registration forms came through, she apparently mistook them for election Bumf and threw them away

39. When it was first played on the radio and in clubs, many fans mistook Madonna for an Afro-American disco diva.

40. Like drama or short story, the classic Turko-Persian literature did not know the genre of dialogue; analphabet bystanders sometimes mistook performances for reality.

41. Coumarin was first isolated from tonka beans and sweet clover in 1820 by A. Vogel of Munich, who initially mistook it for benzoic acid.

42. The first fossils identified as Argentinosaurus were found in 1989 by a rancher in Argentina, who mistook the leg for a giant piece of petrified wood.

43. His books, which include Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, introduced readers to indelible tales of patients with almost outlandishly peculiar brain disorders.

44. Prior to the debate, the leader of the Conservative People's Party, Bendt Bendtsen, mistook her for an office girl and asked her to fetch him coffee.

45. Ye Braggeth earlier about how in depth ye read thine invitation to our masquerade ball, yet somehow ye mistook the very basics! Written out in blood! Ye are clearly one of the dread traitors!

46. Definition of Chanterelle : a fragrant edible mushroom (Cantharellus cibarius) usually having a yellow to orange color Examples of Chanterelle in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web Seven years later, three people in Scotland mistook it for a Chanterelle.

47. Ye Braggeth earlier about how in depth ye read thine invitation to our masquerade ball, yet somehow ye mistook the very basics! Written out in blood! Ye are clearly one of the dread traitors! Martialegg said:

48. ‘Being basically a shy person, I think some players mistook my shyness for Aloofness.’ ‘The locals were neither friendly nor unfriendly; they stood staring from doorways or muttering to themselves in gloomy lanes, and their Aloofness was unusual.’