How to Use misrepresent in a Sentence

misrepresent

verb

• The movie deliberately misrepresents the facts about her life.
• The company is accused of misrepresenting its earnings.
• In other words, the purpose is not to misrepresent the facts.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 May 2022
• Regardless of how—and why—others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
• Regardless of how - and why - others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth.
  — Billboard, 28 July 2021
• On that point, Biden may be right on the surface, but misrepresenting the numbers.
  — Abigail Abrams, Time, 13 Sep. 2019
• Barrett even faults the Fifth Circuit, and the right-wing trial judge who first heard this case, for misrepresenting many key facts.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 26 June 2024
• But Samsung and Huawei are seen to have stepped over line, to have cheated or misrepresented their own product.
  — WIRED, 19 Mar. 2023
• He’s attacked the band, and he’s done it in a slanderous way, with false accusations and misrepresenting the facts to the fans.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Apr. 2023
• Brees told the Union-Tribune the jeweler has misrepresented the facts.
  — Morgan Cook, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 June 2018
• At the weekend gun show in Miami, few people wanted to talk on the record, stating they’d been misrepresented in the past in the media.
  — Bloomberg.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• But users could still misrepresent their birth dates when setting up an account.
  — Tatum Hunter, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
• One of my biggest pet peeves is when a movie willfully misrepresents how a disease works to advance a plot.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, 23 Mar. 2018
• Trump echoed the same in his tweets, insisting the deal was being misrepresented and demanding more credit from the press.
  — Jill Colvin, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2019
• This meme was fake and sought to misrepresent the original and this falsehood sought to enrage NRA supporters.
  — Jennifer Grygiel, Teen Vogue, 19 May 2018
• There is worse, though: Catchy names and presentations that misrepresent a fund's returns and risks.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• Many people believe that the 12 days of Christmas is a lead-up to December 25 (that’s thanks to popular songs and movies tending to misrepresent it).
  — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 11 Nov. 2019
• But, others still misrepresent the stance taken by Black Lives Matter.
  — Adrienne Dunn, USA TODAY, 23 May 2021
• In Baton Rouge, researchers sampled menu items at 24 restaurants and found near 30% – more than one in four – were misrepresented.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
• Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunks Our rating: False The post is misrepresenting a Texas bill that hasn't been signed into law.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
• Many agreed that the term misrepresents what is often a rational response to systemic issues in the workplace.
  — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
• The clip in the Instagram post also came from the news conference, and the English-language post misrepresents the contents of Sheinbaum's remarks.
  — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
• Some have misrepresented an image of a SpaceX rocket launch as evidence that some kind of weapon used a beam to cause an explosion on the island.
  — NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
• This includes sound bites that can be taken out of context and misrepresented.
  — Chad Angle, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
• Many people believe that the 12 days of Christmas are the days leading to December 25 (that’s thanks to popular songs and movies tending to misrepresent it).
  — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 6 Nov. 2020
• And the loudest voices to weigh in on it so far—Barr and Trump—have flagrantly misrepresented its conclusions.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 23 July 2019
• The question at the center of the Rhinelander trial was this: Did Alice misrepresent herself to her husband as white and withhold her true racial ancestry?
  — Bryan Greene, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2024
• And tight end Zach Ertz also expressed his frustration with Fox for misrepresenting the facts.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• The game disguises luck as skill, misrepresents the American Dream, and promises wealth and power at the expense of others.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• The group believes that the trial of Megrahi is misrepresented and that Swire is wrongly heroed as the only family member consistently speaking out in the fight for justice.
  — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 10 Mar 2025