Sentence for mistaken | Use mistaken in a sentence

Mistaken example sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use mistaken in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for mistaken.

  • How sure to be mistaken! (4)
  • Mistaken Youth! (4)
  • I was mistaken. (10)
  • I find I was mistaken. (10)
  • You are quite mistaken. (4)
  • She had not mistaken him. (4)
  • Still, I may be mistaken. (9)
  • She could not be mistaken. (5)
  • Surely you must be mistaken. (4)
  • She will be mistaken, however. (4)
  • Your ladyship is quite mistaken. (4)
  • No, Mary, you are quite mistaken. (4)
  • For all that, you have mistaken mine. (8)
  • He assured her that she was mistaken. (10)
  • But that was just where I was mistaken. (9)
  • But what a pity you should be mistaken. (9)
  • Miss Vernon was mistaken in applying to me. (4)
  • Only let not that be mistaken for weakness. (10)
  • Your name is Eberbach, if I am not mistaken. (5)
  • For it was really a mistaken sense of honour. (10)
  • Andrew protested that he was entirely mistaken. (10)
  • If I am, I was saying if I am not mistaken, I . (10)
  • He deprecated her mistaken but well-meaning zeal. (4)
  • Evan was not mistaken in the index he had perused. (10)
  • She dreaded lest the chambermaid had been mistaken. (4)
  • If I am not mistaken, a rope is dangling from it yet. (1)
  • He was not mistaken in thinking she looked up to him. (10)
  • I am never mistaken in my estimates of Italian and Cymric blood. (10)
  • For once in your life you would be obliged to own yourself mistaken. (4)
  • There has been some very great mistake; we have been all mistaken, I fancy. (4)
  • She was mistaken, however, in supposing that Edmund gave his father no present pain. (4)
  • And if a Bad of any kind does not come within that definition I am greatly mistaken. (14)
  • But my friends were mistaken in supposing that I had been thought of for England…. (14)
  • His view amused me at the time, and yet I am not sure that it was altogether mistaken. (9)
  • Though this lady never expressed an idea, Richard was not mistaken in her cleverness. (10)
  • He gave me a quiet hint; I told him he was mistaken; he asked my pardon and said no more. (4)
  • An old officer halted his staff to scold a citizen who had given him a mistaken direction. (9)
  • It might be that he had mistaken her: he was on guard against his terrible sensitiveness. (10)
  • They began their walk, and Mrs. Morland was not entirely mistaken in his object in wishing it. (4)
  • But if the French thought they would frighten Mascarene into surrendering, they were mistaken. (19)
  • If he was not greatly mistaken a gentle pressure on the fingers of his left hand rewarded him. (10)
  • The world is always a prophet of the mire; but the world is no longer an utterly mistaken world. (10)
  • He had mistaken it probably for his own; if he had chanced to blow his nose, he would have realized. (8)
  • Opposition was vain; and as to Mrs. Norris, he was mistaken in supposing she would wish to make any. (4)
  • You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these. (4)
  • I have mistaken my vocation, thought Diana: I am certainly the flattest proser who ever penned a line. (10)
  • She could not be mistaken in the remark which the father addressed to Burnamy, though it led to nothing. (9)
  • The letter of parting which I had to write her was the bitterest thing in all my useless and mistaken life. (12)
  • You have simplified my task, Sir Willoughby, very much; that is, assuming that I have not entirely mistaken you. (10)
  • This, we supposed, would tend to her welfare and induce her to lead a regular, decorous life; but we were mistaken. (5)
  • I know that it is a common thing to believe that a circus woman has no modesty, but the impression is a mistaken one. (21)
  • He staggers away from the grating and stays himself against the wall, the mistaken glove dangling limply from his hand. (9)
  • There is one circumstance, which, if I am not mistaken, has not as yet been published by the newspapers, and it is this. (10)
  • It is quite false or quite mistaken to suppose that our novels have left untouched these most important realities of life. (9)
  • Moreover, when the casual observer convinces himself that the huge tent is full to repletion, he is often badly mistaken. (21)
  • But you have mistaken Benjamin Andrews, when you offer him gold for his simple services to a friend of General Washington. (18)
  • He owned he might have been mistaken, as the brilliant fellow flew swift and high between leaves, like an ordinary fritillary. (10)
  • But you are mistaken if you count on any yielding on my part, any womanly weakness, or any awakening of certain so-called instincts. (12)
  • He had imbibed in Padua mistaken ideas which, unhappily, are held in high esteem by many from whom we should expect more discernment. (5)
  • For, though your accusations were ill-founded, formed on mistaken premises, my behaviour to you at the time had merited the severest reproof. (4)
  • The stupidity of Italian sbirri is proverbial, or a Milanese cavalier would have been astonished to conceive himself mistaken for a Bolognese. (10)
  • In the warmth of the moment, and under a mistaken impression, I might, perhaps, have endeavoured to interest you in some circumstances; but not now. (4)
  • Nay, but earnestness works out its own cure more surely than frenzy, and it should be preferable to think him sound of heart, sincere though mistaken. (10)

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