How to Use mismatch in a Sentence

mismatch

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• Can the two of them overcome their odd-couple mismatch to solve the crime?
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 13 Jan. 2023
• Yet there is a clear mismatch between these social norms and the law – for now.
  — Tanya D. Marsh, The Conversation, 30 June 2023
• The Bulls’ lack of 3-point shooting creates a mismatch behind the arc.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• Trevor Lawrence does a great job of finding this mismatch and hits Kirk on a 10-yard touchdown.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2023
• That kind of mismatch in supply and demand is what can lead to outages.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 8 Apr. 2024
• The mismatch between investors and the Fed extends through the entirety of 2024.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
• Of Frisbee sliders and mismatches on paper that didn’t turn out that way on the field.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
• Much like square tires on a car getting you nowhere, a mismatch here is setting your efforts up to fail.
  — Summit Ghimire, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• There’s also a large mismatch in how employees and the C-suite view well-being.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 27 June 2023
• The figures suggest a sharp mismatch between the skills of the labor force and the jobs being created in the market.
  — Anup Roy, Fortune Asia, 30 Mar. 2024
• San Jose State has some weapons on defense, but the Spartans must figure out how to overcome what looks to be a mismatch up front.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
• Cleveland’s defense is too good, and there are too many mismatches the Browns can exploit.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Recognizing the mismatch, Davis took two hard dribbles along the baseline, breezed past Looney and lofted in the layup.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2023
• The Ducks then went to work, exploiting the biggest mismatch in the game — their rushing attack vs. the Wildcats’ run defense.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2022
• The single largest source of this loss is a mismatch between the colors of incoming light and the colors of light that can be used by a solar cell.
  — Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023
• The new study found that, despite the mismatch in variants, the booster remains protective against XBB.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2023
• For those children, and for my children, too, there’s often a mismatch between a word and an object.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
• Yes, the margin of this NFC title game might be so large — the Niners are touchdown favorites — that this mismatch of styles might not play a role in the final score.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• Part of that mismatch is because fewer people ages 25 to 44 are seeking work.
  — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• Auriemma note that other teams are going to cause a huge height mismatch and the coaching staff will have to adjust game by game.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 24 Nov. 2022
• The central issue here is the mismatch between the number of Swift fans who will be at SoFi and the number of people who can fit onto a bus or train car.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• There are already signs of a mismatch between supply and demand.
  — William Mathis, Fortune, 3 June 2023
• Sunday was a mismatch for the Steelers in their 35-13 loss in Philadelphia.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
• Blood types, however, were a mismatch, the organ was rejected and the woman died.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2023
• If the tax returns can’t be verified due to an address mismatch or missing date, the IRS rejects the request and the loan is declined.
  — Natalie Walters, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2021
• Sometimes there is a mismatch between where housing is available and where people want to live.
  — Emily Lawler, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2023
• If Harris can't play, Boum should have a mismatch against whoever Butler throws at him.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2023
• Fairweather projects to be a big-time mismatch come the regular season.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2023
• Look for Spagnuolo to match Jones with one of the new offensive linemen for the Bengals and create a mismatch in the Chiefs’ favor.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2023
• Energy Dome, a start-up based in Milan, runs an energy-storage demonstration plant that helps to address a mismatch in the local electricity market.
  — Amos Zeeberg, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024

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mismatch

2 of 2 verb

• The couches are ripping at the seams and the chairs are rickety and mismatched.
  — Maddy Zollo Rusbosin, Southern Living, 18 July 2023
• The men sleep in rooms packed with long cushions and mismatched sheets and blankets.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
• Get rid of scratched broiling pans and mismatched pots and choose a new, gleaming set.
  — Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• Ditch mismatched containers in favor of this Pyrex set that’s on sale for just $28.
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
• As a result, the cars are often made up of mismatching colored parts.
  — Zolan Kanno-Youngs Marian Carrasquero, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• It was really mismatched but turned out to be super-fun.
  — Irene Kim, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
• Every room is a blast of colors and patterns, all mismatched on purpose.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
• Born three years apart, Newhart and Rickles weren’t as mismatched as their stage personas and career paths might suggest.
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• With the cityscape behind her, the actress looked like the angelic picture of spring in her white midi dress and mismatched polka dot shoes.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
• The wood, stone, greenery, and metal in this space work together to look layered and cozy, not cluttered or mismatched.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 13 Aug. 2023
• But those that do so can mismatch with pollinators that emerge ahead of schedule as a result of warm weather.
  — Jude Coleman, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2023
• With only one spare set of synthetic clothes, rinsed out along the way and dried in the sun, every piece of apparel is now faded, shabby and mismatched.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 25 July 2023
• Try mushroom motifs, mismatched floral dishware, and lots of plant imagery to channel this look in any space.
  — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 July 2023
• Rogan’s mouth movements are mismatched to the audio, and his voice sounds unnatural at times.
  — Stuart A. Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
• The core of the experience may be a sense of dislocation, of being newly and scarily mismatched to the world.
  — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• Watch a video of a ballet class on TikTok or YouTube and find that dancers are in pants that resemble garbage bags, ratty, mismatched leg-warmers, and lots and lots of layers.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
• There are my tube socks from camp, vaguely athletic ones from my high school basketball career, and many mismatched neon pairs from a brand called Hot Sox.
  — Lucy Dolan-Zalaznick, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
• The Blazers continue to find ways to mismatch opponents and Rudolph and Farrier are expected to lead the charge from the slot position.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 28 Oct. 2022
• For the most part, Janine and her colleagues are temperamentally mismatched to such subterfuge.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
• Decreasing demand has been mismatched with higher production, which the commission projects to be up 4% so far this year for member nations.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Antiques, heavy wooden furniture, and mismatched dishware give the lodge a cozy country atmosphere.
  — Nora Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
• In California’s ‘zombie’ forests, conifers have become mismatched to a warming climate.
  — Elena Shao, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• At the same time, they’re mismatched to traditional conservation laws and symmetries, which are expressed in terms of particles.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• There are still minute giveaways that the images aren’t real, such as when earrings are mismatched, but research shows that already humans are easily convinced that A.I. mug shots are of real people.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• But the reading that follows - about Mount Everest and climbing expeditions - can become frustrating if it’s mismatched to their skill level.
  — Donna St. George and Susan Svrluga, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• The lawsuit said that amount was inflated by mismatching income and expense periods.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• If you’re plainly mismatched (ahem), then let that express itself organically and see what happens.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
• The pair made headlines earlier this year for their couple’s style after social media users called out the couple for their often mismatching ensembles.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
• The center of the room is populated with tables and mismatched chairs, and a more traditional yet still funky area behind features rows of seating, the front portion of which is outfitted with thrift-store couches and armchairs.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• The decor is a pitch-perfect blend of nautical, rustic, and modern, with brick and old woodwork, vintage oil paintings and a neon horseshoe crab sign, mismatched china and chairs, and different spaces to suit different moods.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023

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