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.
  • This time, though, not even the fans were misled.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Well, they haven't been misled.
    — ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The trouble is that these cues can mislead.
    — Tim Requarth, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2026
  • There can be a lot of misleading stuff.
    — Mitch Light, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Don’t be misled by the goofy-sounding name.
    — Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 May 2026
  • Tests are designed to mislead you.
    — Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And both can mislead the unaware.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
  • His brain is filling in gaps, not to mislead, but try to make sense of it all.
    — Jann Blackstone, Boston Herald, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Trump feels he has been misled by Putin about ending the war.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
  • Bearden claims he was also misled about the sale of the home.
    — Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star, 8 July 2019
  • The visible link text in an email can mislead you.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
  • Of course, that could be misleading hype about a home’s true value.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 14 Jan. 2026
  • That doesn’t seem to be the case, as the couple had some fun with the misleading claims.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2025
  • As a result, readers of the later post are misled, as was the case here.
    — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But the problem isn’t just misleading math.
    — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 27 May 2026
  • The study did not conclude whether or not the videos intended to mislead.
    — Connor Goodwin, WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • The main point of the deception isn’t to mislead callers about his name.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The jury found two of Musk’s tweets misleading.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 Mar. 2026
  • My work focused on the use of fake accounts to mislead the social discourse.
    — Karishma Mehrotra, Quartz, 11 Nov. 2021
  • So, why did 1587 mislead its customers?
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2026
  • McCutcheon said there was no effort to mislead the Democrats.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 6 May 2021
  • The giant amethyst geode is misleading seeing as how those aren't found in the cave nor this part of the country.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Tesla’s language on that point may be misleading to the layperson.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2019
  • In fact, people are probably even more liable to mislead you.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Grubhub goes to great lengths to mislead consumers, the lawsuit argues.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • However, the series is almost over and it hasn't been brought up, and some fans feel like they've been misled.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 13 Nov. 2019
  • And when wielded skillfully, the very tools that mislead us can help us out of this conundrum.
    — Nadav Ziv, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The biggest prizes in showbiz mislead consumers to think that all is right with the industry.
    — Armond White, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022

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