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
• 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
• But users could still misrepresent their birth dates when setting up an account.
  — Tatum Hunter, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
• There is worse, though: Catchy names and presentations that misrepresent a fund's returns and risks.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Shame on them for co-opting and misrepresenting their voices.
  — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• Has there ever been as clear-cut a case of House and Senate members misrepresenting the interests of their constituents?
  — Stephen Moore, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2023
• Fox said the woman’s email has been misrepresented as being a key source of Fox’s reporting on Dominion.
  — David Bauder, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
• And as Trump’s record shows, people who are prepared to misrepresent the truth as a means to – or excuse for – abusing their power once will almost certainly do so again.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 12 May 2022
• Many of the outlets now expressing alarm have ignored or misrepresented key information about his plight along the way.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
• So there are various ways that your no-shows are misrepresenting themselves.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• The posts misrepresent a treaty between the U.S. and Ukraine aimed at preventing biological threats.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2022
• Willfully misrepresenting history to hold back Black Americans is a tactic that has worked in the past.
  — Jeff Raikes, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• The lawsuit claims the mortuary tried to cover up its error and misrepresented when Stephens was cremated and what truly happened to her remains.
  — Sydney Carruth, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2023
• The plan will not limit kids to a strict period of screen time — beyond the ability to enter a passcode, young social media users have been known to misrepresent their ages to avoid features meant for children.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• Those who have followed her for years will love seeing her full story told for the first time while others will benefit from understanding the way the media misrepresented her.
  — Adrienne Gaffney, elle.com, 9 June 2023
• One of Cruise’s driverless cars dragged the pedestrian, and the company initially misrepresented what happened during the Oct. 2 crash.
  — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
• The plea deal can be revoked if Jaar is found to have misrepresented any facts or commits any misconduct after entering into the deal, according to the agreement.
  — Alta Spells, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• If the original proposal misrepresented Ford’s plans, the hundreds of millions of dollars tied to job creation should be revoked under the contract.
  — Thomas Catenacci, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2023
• Stern described some of these revisions that have been misrepresented.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• The publication revealed in 2017 that Trump and his company had vastly misrepresented the size of his triplex apartment in Trump Tower.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Tibet and its people have often been misrepresented with clichés.
  — Tiffany May, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• Kry’s defense attorneys argue that Kry had no idea whether Vanny planned to misrepresent those wild monkeys as captive-bred and export them to American labs.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
• Then a policy change allowed the callers to misrepresent themselves as law enforcement.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• No-gos include reviews that misrepresent someone’s experience with a product and that claim to be written by someone who doesn’t exist.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024