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Examples of mishandle in a Sentence
The police mishandled the investigation.
Apples are easily bruised when they are mishandled.
The shortstop mishandled the throw.
The quarterback fumbled when he mishandled the snap.
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Following Hurricane Ida, a Texas law firm faced a federal investigation after allegedly mishandling thousands of lawsuits over property damage in Louisiana.
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Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
But that effort unraveled at a circuit court hearing last month, after new DNA testing revealed the murder weapon had been mishandled prior to the 2001 trial – contaminating the evidence meant to exonerate Williams and complicating his quest to prove his innocence.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
Hurts mishandled two snaps against the Green Bay Packers, once under center and once in the shotgun when the snap was early.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
The court files also raise questions about whether the FBI and CIA, which repeatedly dismissed the significance of Saudi links to the hijackers, mishandled or deliberately downplayed evidence of the kingdom’s possible complicity in the attacks that killed 2,977 people and injured thousands more.
—Tim Golden, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2024
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Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
But that effort unraveled at a circuit court hearing last month, after new DNA testing revealed the murder weapon had been mishandled prior to the 2001 trial – contaminating the evidence meant to exonerate Williams and complicating his quest to prove his innocence.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
Hurts mishandled two snaps against the Green Bay Packers, once under center and once in the shotgun when the snap was early.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
The court files also raise questions about whether the FBI and CIA, which repeatedly dismissed the significance of Saudi links to the hijackers, mishandled or deliberately downplayed evidence of the kingdom’s possible complicity in the attacks that killed 2,977 people and injured thousands more.
—Tim Golden, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Mishandle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mishandle. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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mishandle
verb
mis·han·dle
(ˈ)mis-ˈhan-dᵊl 
1
: to treat roughly : maltreat
2
: to manage wrongly
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