Example Sentences

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State Farm spokesperson Bob Devereux disputed the insurer was mistreating its customers and said in a written statement an “overwhelming majority are satisfied with our service.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2025

A source told People in mid-May, a week after the firing, that Savage was “taking a break” in the wake of complaints that he was mistreating crew members.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2022

She broke the nondisclosure agreement that she signed with Kelly by talking to me, in August of 2017—part of the motivation, she said, was because she was concerned that Kelly was mistreating her friend Dominique.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 12, 2019

It is also possible that senior guards in the camp had found out that a disgruntled teacher was mistreating a reliable snitch.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Mrs. Rodney, being an old-fashioned mother, could not reconcile herself to this unfilial attitude, and gravely confided to her husband that she feared Medcroft was mistreating his child behind their backs.

From The Husbands of Edith by McCutcheon, George Barr