Example Sentences

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“There was misunderstanding in the verbal communication between both sides,” they said on Monday.

From Reuters • Nov. 3, 2019

That suggestion, however, was firmly pushed back by Ambassador Gordon Sondland, who said Mr Taylor was misunderstanding the president's intentions.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2019

Walking home with my older sister afterward, I asked her—in Russian, I didn’t speak English at this point—whether I was misunderstanding the word nice.

From Slate • May 23, 2018

Bush responded that Trump was misunderstanding how both Putin and the Islamic State see the world.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2015

They were off St. Domingo, the capital of the Island, on the 14th of April, 1655, and from that moment there was misunderstanding and blundering.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by Masson, David