Example Sentences

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Critics howled that Haberman had misquoted the lyrics to “Thunder Road.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021

But the war of words didn't end there - as Swift's publicist Tree Paine intervened, claiming Kardashian had misquoted her original 2016 press release.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2020

Cotton alluded to a 2013 incident in which Durbin had misquoted a Republican House leader’s comment at an Obama White House meeting.

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2018

Afterward, the woman involved in the bulldog episode and three other agency employees named as witnesses to Plotkin’s allegedly insensitive comments said the internal report had misquoted or misconstrued their accounts.

From Washington Times • Jan. 19, 2017

The placeman had misquoted Terence, and the alderman had corrected him; whereupon the ready placeman thanked the worthy alderman for teaching him Latin, and volunteered in exchange to teach the alderman English.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine