How to Use mislead in a Sentence

mislead

verb

• We believe that her comments were deliberately meant to mislead the public.
• We believe that her comments were deliberately meant to mislead.
• Fast-food restaurants have all kinds of ways to mislead us.
  — Leonard Greene, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
• The Trump team displays misleading information on the screen in the court room.
  — Dan Alexander, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• This wouldn’t be the first time Trump or one of his allies misled his own legal team about the documents.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
• The creator of the Pope Coat image wasn’t attempting to mislead anyone.
  — WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023
• In the clip, Rodrigo gathers in a room full of her ex’s other scorned and misled exes.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
• But don’t be misled by that martial tone, any more than by the set, the Marines and the military cut of Jessica Jahn’s costumes for the men.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• Still, some who’ve followed the Nicaragua route say they were misled about potential dangers and the future awaiting them in the U.S.
  — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
• In the years since the murder, Madison was misled about how her father really died.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
• False claims about vaccines Vaccines are the No. 1 topic of misleading health claims.
  — Monica Wang, The Conversation, 13 Dec. 2023
• As a result, readers of the second-generation post are misled, as was the case here.
  — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• Don’t let the shade name mislead you either, as the suit is undoubtedly a bright magenta.
  — Kayla Blanton, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
• It’s been used to mislead and harass people and to spread propaganda.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
• James claims in her lawsuit that Trump and his family's business misled banks about the value of his properties and his net worth.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 14 Apr. 2023
• She’s openly taken pleasure in misleading fans about the direction of her next record.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 10 May 2023
• My impression was that the bank wasn't actually misled about who these people were.
  — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 9 Oct. 2023
• Some in the family believed Jenkins had been forced, or at least misled, into going to North Korea.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• Dark patterns are website or app designs that can mislead consumers.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2023
• Google is making millions from the exercise and women are often misled, to say the least, in their search for reliable health services.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 15 June 2023
• Dozens of state governments sued Meta last fall for allegedly misleading the public about the harms its services could cause young users.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 15 Feb. 2024
• Government records have helped expose the role of drug companies in the opioid crisis and showed how U.S. officials misled the public about the war in Afghanistan.
  — Emily Joynton, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024
• The disclosures to users are supposed to counteract the risks of deepfakes, or alterations to real footage that could mislead people.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
• And some consumers have complained that they have been misled by shady contractors about final costs and payment methods.
  — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024
• Two of the three judges ruled Monday that Hinckley’s statements were not entirely clear and still could have misled Huntsman — a key element in proving fraud.
  — Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• Two Democrats on the visit accused her of misleading the public and said the conditions were unremarkable.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• My mom and my dad. — and misled the initial investigators.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2024
• When strapped to the powerful algorithms of social media, these fakes could mislead and confuse voters on a scale never seen.
  — David Klepper, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2023
• The suit points to the statement as evidence that Chapek’s comments on his reorganization were meant to mislead investors.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Aug. 2023
• For another, because the receiver still wound up misled.
  — Joseph Lezza, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024