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Examples of mistreat in a Sentence
They accuse him of mistreating his wife.
She claimed she had been mistreated by the police.
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Dozens of protesters – and a few conservative members of the Knesset – stormed a detention centre in Israel on Monday, in a show of support for soldiers accused of mistreating a Palestinian prisoner.
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Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 31 July 2024
Yet, when the statement was typed, the pronoun was changed to suggest that Bamber felt he’d been mistreated.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Cincinnati is an 18-year-old tiger at In-Sync Exotics – a rescue in Wylie, Texas, for exotic cats that have been mistreated or neglected.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 24 July 2024
Investigators had uncovered that the dogs were being grossly neglected and mistreated, with animals crowded and sometimes crushed to death in small cages, fed moldy food, and left to languish in their own waste.
—Sunaura Taylor, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024
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Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 31 July 2024
Yet, when the statement was typed, the pronoun was changed to suggest that Bamber felt he’d been mistreated.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Cincinnati is an 18-year-old tiger at In-Sync Exotics – a rescue in Wylie, Texas, for exotic cats that have been mistreated or neglected.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 24 July 2024
Investigators had uncovered that the dogs were being grossly neglected and mistreated, with animals crowded and sometimes crushed to death in small cages, fed moldy food, and left to languish in their own waste.
—Sunaura Taylor, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024
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“Mistreat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mistreat. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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