misunderstand

How To Use misunderstand In A Sentence

• Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings.
• In Chinas modernization drive, the misunderstanding on "Middlebrow" is not beneficial to the understanding and the promotion of the core ideology of Chinas traditional culture.
• Cultural misunderstandings do happen. Times, Sunday Times
• I don't want there to be any misunderstanding.
• Firman said the dispute was triggered by a minor misunderstanding between a member of the police's Mobile Brigade and a group of marines.
• The show cloaks itself in wholesome, old-fashioned japery with its broad misunderstandings ("I said ghosts, not goats!") and knowing winks at Hi-de-Hi! and Frank Spencer, and the way Miranda's mother (Patricia Hodge) flits in and out as if through a time portal to a 1950s Whitehall farce. Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law
• There are worries that cultural misunderstandings can lead to lost sales. Times, Sunday Times
• You're so good with people today and clear up any kind of misunderstanding - and then get on with enjoying all the festivities. The Sun
• This has serious policy implications, because, if we misunderstand the causes of what concerns us, we misdirect our efforts to change it.
• True, we are expected to moonwalk across the vast waters dividing technology from the masses and tiptoe back on egocentric eggshells, circumventing treacherous misunderstandings and political back-stabbing.