Examples of mislay in a Sentence
I'm always mislaying my bus pass.
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Broadening the base has always been the plan, but its been mislaid for 80 years.
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Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
The student is charged with possession of a handgun while under the age of 18 and theft of lost or mislaid property.
—Dan Raby, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
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
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Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
The student is charged with possession of a handgun while under the age of 18 and theft of lost or mislaid property.
—Dan Raby, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
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
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“Mislay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mislay. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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mislay
verb
mis·lay
(ˈ)mis-ˈlā 
mislaid
-ˈlād
; mislaying
; mislaying
: to put in a place later forgotten : lose
mislaid the car keys
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