How to Use mislay in a Sentence

mislay

verb
  • I'm always mislaying my bus pass.
  • So many things, dropped and lost and mislaid, twinkling all over the place like a museum/ junkyard.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Too, the suspicion that it could not be done again, that the ability to pull it off had been mislaid.
    — Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Broadening the base has always been the plan, but its been mislaid for 80 years.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • If there was a gift table at the wedding, there is always the possibility that one or more of the gifts was mislaid.
    — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • However, bank guarantees can get mislaid, and some find the process of handling them to be too laborious and slow.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Some, however, think the fixation on Winslet's statements is mislaid and missing the point.
    — Evelyn Wang, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2017
  • That’s what Manchester City, who rediscovered their mojo having mislaid it for the best part of a year, did.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • What counts is the manner of slaughter, and—this being the most courteous of films—the vital importance of never mislaying one’s cool.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2019
  • In the same incident, Riplinger was charged with theft of mislaid property in the 300 block of South Rand Road.
    — Phil Rockrohr, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
  • Van is the one who pulls Earn toward responsibility and stability, out of bad decisions and mislaid schemes and back into the real world.
    — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Even the fates of individual pieces, a surprising number of which have since been stolen or mislaid, sold or melted down to make something new, echo the unpredictable evolution of the culture itself.
    — Daniel Levin Becker Jessica Pettway, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Commanders were under a lot of pressure to spend down their CERP accounts, meaning that a lot of projects were done with poor oversight — the same school being rebuilt several times, for instance — or the funds were mislaid.
    — Spencer Ackerman, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2011
  • Assistant coach Ryan Jensen, the Fort Morgan native and a Super Bowl champ with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, mislaid his hat before the game and had to borrow someone else’s.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The footage confiscated by the bank was donated in 2010 to the Panamanian Ministry of Culture, and subsequently mislaid; by chance, further reels were found by Gaisseau’s widow in a family friend’s home.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
  • This document, mislaid for decades, describes how the compound was made and how Imperial Chemical Industries, where Richardson worked, almost terminated the project because the company was hoping to produce a contraceptive, not a cancer therapy.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024

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