Example Sentences

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They've got what other people will construe as a weaker team but that just makes Rangers more dangerous.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2010

"I am most grateful, and I am sure my people will construe it as yet another sign of the Union's friendship."

From Citadel by Dongen, H. R. van

I guess the law will construe it as a waiver of his claim.

From A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today by Raine, William MacLeod

Your audience will construe whatever you say into conformity with their pre-existing outlook.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

I will construe to them whence you come; who you are and what you would are out of my welkin: I might say element; but the word is overworn.

From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William