Sentences with 'mistook'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mistook and other words derived from it.
• « "They mistook the shrieks of the glass for the echolocator of a hungry bat and escaped," smiled my amigote, looking with entomological affection at the furry, grey, industrious little bodies that carpeted the tables, the guests and the plates. »
• « Others have been less benevolent. In Cambridge academic circles, where Hawking cultivated an image of "difficult genius" and where his contemporaries were sometimes so intimidated by him that they could not bring themselves to buy him a beer, some mistook his attitude for arrogance and a spirit of contradiction. »