Example Sentences

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Huntington patients often lash out physically at their caregivers — not out of malice, Benjamin Gilmer said, but because their brains are misfiring.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2022

The Warriors are misfiring from long range, but they are making a number of defensive plays and doing just enough on offense to keep the Celtics at bay.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2022

But achieving the first of those when the others are misfiring is the mark of a real golfer.

From Golf Digest • May 17, 2019

His players are misfiring and picking fights with opponents, namely the combative Diego Costa, who has yet to open his scoring account this campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 16, 2015

But in many cases surgeons hesitate to cut out those parts of the brain in which electrical impulses are misfiring and causing all the trouble.

From Time Magazine Archive