How to Use misalign in a Sentence

misalign

verb

• Things will go off and on the rails on the way there, naturally; the leads will align and misalign.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• On the ensuing free kick, Brazil’s wall was misaligned.
  — Steven Goff, Washington Post, 13 June 2024
• Among the issues on which they were misaligned was trade relations.
  — Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2022
• The actor sported an overbite and is front teeth is misaligned so that one of them is directly in the middle of his mouth .
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 11 Aug. 2024
• But this leap year, the heavens have misaligned and robbed St. Patrick’s Day revelers of the first chance in six years to paint the town green on a Saturday because of the leap year.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
• Each morning as the helicopter warms up and recharges, the blackout from the previous night will misalign the mission clock.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 June 2022
• The zipper on Kate's jacket also appears to be misaligned.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
• These games, many new and with small followings, seemed out of keeping with the standards of the Olympics and misaligned with what was globally popular in the realm of esports.
  — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 30 July 2024
• When coils are misaligned, energy is often lost as heat, which is also not good for battery health.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
• That rule is misaligned with today’s fast-moving markets, the SEC decided.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
• My love for sushi tragically misaligns with my current…budgetary constraints…as a 20-something in New York City on a media salary.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 23 Mar. 2024
• Journalist, Roland Martin for instance, took to his YouTube channel to highlight how the partnership may be misaligned.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 24 June 2024
• But adapting well takes serious money, and the mechanisms for funding it are misaligned.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
• Dual-chamber pacemakers are used when the timing of the chamber contractions is misaligned.
  — Jennifer Whitlock, Rn, Msn, Fn, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2023
• But expectations and reality have a funny way of misaligning in the NFL.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2024
• Next, identify which elements are misaligned with your values or goals.
  — Inga Bielińska, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Many other holidays have equally been misaligned with their original intent and turned into something they were not meant to be.
  — Faith Barton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
• The building fell southward, in part, because the framework of beams and columns was misaligned and the structural connections were insufficient between the two sides. 3-D model shows beams inside the ground floor.
  — Safak Timur Safak Timur, New York Times, 11 May 2023
• With trains, the problems are obvious — heat causes rails to expand and misalign, and electric power lines to droop, meaning trains have to slow, or sometimes stop altogether.
  — Peter Green, Quartz, 1 June 2024
• Families shared stories of high-achieving children failing to win a seat in any of the district’s selective high schools, or being placed in a school too far away or one misaligned with student interests.
  — Sara Randazzo, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2023
• Van Soest says that while some details of Blanchard’s stories were misaligned, several parts of Blanchard’s most mind-boggling experiences rang true across the board from the film’s interviewees.
  — Time, 13 July 2023
• The fact is, Europe’s energy consumption is misaligned with the resources to which European countries have secure access.
  — Helen Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2022
• Simply put, web3 is the opportunity to re-align incentivizes that have been grossly misaligned by web2 profit seekers.
  — Brian D. Evans, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2023
• In the past, environmentalism has been misaligned as a cause for the wealthy, when in fact, Black leaders, and specifically Black women have long had a hand in shaping the conservationist movement.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 22 Apr. 2024
• Its unlimited ends misalign to limited means, and initiative rests dangerously in the hands of Tehran, which has a greater interest in its own survival than the United States does in forcing its demise.
  — Brett McGurk, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2020
• The Christian institution argued the move was too last-minute and misaligned with international standards.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2023
• This usually misaligns incentives away from our true effectiveness and enjoyment on the job.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• That kind of change, however well-intentioned, blunts the edge of an otherwise gripping thriller, and ultimately results in a deflating conclusion misaligned with our paranoia.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Tesla is recalling nearly 3,000 vehicles due to an issue with suspension that could misalign the wheel, causing instability and increasing risk of a crash.
  — Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2021
• If the vision becomes unclear or misaligned with the actions being taken, a company can quickly lose its way and communicate the wrong message both internally and externally.
  — Colin C. Campbell, Forbes, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024