How to Use misstate in a Sentence

misstate

verb

• An article in yesterday's paper misstated the name of the district attorney.
• The company misstated its profits.
• The Guardian’s story dramatizes and misstates the facts of what occurred.
  — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 25 Oct. 2019
• Aside from failing to mention the storage fee, Aubrey appeared to misstate the amount of the loan Johnson would receive.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2020
• The article also misstated the amount of the rent threshold.
  — New York Times, 19 June 2019
• Frank had alleged the firm misstated its profits and he was owed millions.
  — Greg Norman | Fox News, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2018
• An article in Monday editions misstated the name of the trail in one instance.
  — oregonlive, 1 June 2020
• An earlier version of this article misstated the year the unit was launched as 2016.
  — WSJ, 2 July 2018
• Correction: An earlier version misstated the state the city of Grayson is in.
  — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• This was misstated in the March 28 Politics & Ideas column.
  — WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
• Correction: The original version of this story misstated the name of the group that conducted the poll.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 8 May 2018
• Correction: June 29 The original version of this story misstated the name of the reporter who sent the viral tweet.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 29 June 2018
• This story originally misstated the day the eclipse was seen.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
• This piece originally misstated the name of the Jodie Foster movie Taxi Driver.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
• But in a statement Sunday and tweets Monday, Trump misstated the facts multiple times.
  — Alicia A. Caldwell, Orange County Register, 30 Jan. 2017
• An early version of this story misstated David Norris' time this year at Bird Ridge.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2018
• The article also misstates the name of a museum that has exhibited the works of the artist Aliza Nisenbaum.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• The Facebook post examined here as well as several others misstate the victim's name and age.
  — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2021
• The original version of this story also misstated the size of the Marine Corps compared to the other branches.
  — Flora Carr, Time, 12 Apr. 2018
• The update also corrects an earlier version that misstated the name of her law school.
  — Michael Sebastian, Cosmopolitan, 6 Mar. 2018
• The update also corrects an earlier version that misstated the name of her law school.
  — Michael Sebastian, Cosmopolitan, 30 May 2017
• Trump has also been misstating basic facts about the US military mission in the Middle East.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 21 Oct. 2019
• In addition to creating possible headaches in court, that misstates the process.
  — Matt Zapotosky, The Denver Post, 6 June 2017
• The article originally misstated that the performance of the late rock star Prince at the 2018 Super Bowl was a hologram.
  — National Geographic, 5 Nov. 2019
• An earlier version of this story misstated the first name of a zoo bird ecologist.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• The original version of this story misstated the title of Kanti Patel, front desk clerk at the Budget Inn.
  — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 25 Oct. 2017
• This story originally misstated how much plastic ends up in the oceans each year.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2023
• The original story also misstated the number of Jews polled in an E.U. survey.
  — Time Staff, TIME.com, 11 July 2019
• An earlier version misstated the year of the 9/11 terror attacks.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2019
• An earlier version of this story misstated the number of people who work in the service industry in the United States.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 25 May 2023

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024