How to Use miscommunication in a Sentence

miscommunication

noun
  • Both sides chalked it up to miscommunication and moved on to the next play.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2022
  • But some part of this may be due to miscommunication.
    R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • So if there was a miscommunication on one show or two, there were guys that were helping.
    Nathaniel Cline, cleveland.com, 2 June 2017
  • And there’s just a lot of miscommunication that stalls and holds up some of these efforts.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But there was a miscommunication, and they were all put back into the fridge.
    Annabelle Spranklen, Town & Country, 17 May 2019
  • The miscommunication cost Williams a save but might have earned him the win.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2026
  • There were some things that came up — some miscommunications.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Managers need to work on miscommunication with their teams to pave the way for a boomerang return.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 12 July 2022
  • And there seemed to be some miscommunication on a third down Wilson run that came up far short.
    Bob Condotta, The Seattle Times, 10 Dec. 2018
  • In the meantime, try not to stress too hard about any past missteps or miscommunications.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Chase was wide-open on the ball thanks to a miscommunication in the Jets secondary.
    Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The two did have a miscommunication later in the end zone, when Pearsall went the wrong way on a choice route.
    Vic Tafur, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Smith explained that there was a miscommunication about the time of the hearing.
    Arkansas Online, 18 May 2022
  • It was relayed to me, and there was just a lot of miscommunication that was happening.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Or, there may have been a miscommunication within the pod, Bain says.
    National Geographic, 21 June 2018
  • What the sets, the racks, the reps are going to look like so that there is no confusion, there is no miscommunication.
    James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2021
  • There was a miscommunication on the Bears’ plans on fourth down that resulted in a turnover on downs.
    Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Sharpe got on the mic on the latest episode of Nightcap and cleared up the miscommunication that caused the diss.
    Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 13 June 2025
  • That 0 might get flipped to a 1 along the way, causing a miscommunication.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Worst-case scenario -- a miscommunication during the walk-through could scuttle a sale or land a client in court.
    Ask Amy, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Trout’s hit was a blooper that dropped because of a miscommunication.
    Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 8 Apr. 2026
  • That was the miscommunication over the last couple of seasons about what my role would be and things that are expected of me.
    oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Maybe, in the end, this is all just a story of a miscommunication and two people too easily spooked.
    Ashley Fetters, The Cut, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Liv apologized for lying about the camera and for the miscommunication about the rest, but things didn’t end on the best note.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 14 July 2025
  • But a miscommunication in the middle on the next point doomed Oceanside.
    Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • His girlfriend also said that Lawyer spent a few nights at her home and that there was a miscommunication about his curfew.
    Nashelly Chavez, sacbee, 31 May 2018
  • Third, this just shows how a miscommunication can open the door, but even so, the Suns forced Morant into a tough shot.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 28 Dec. 2021
  • When workers checked the drop box, there was a miscommunication about whether it had been fully emptied, the office said.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • But some of the struggle to run the ball was the result of miscommunication and uncertainty about where to be.
    Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2020
  • There was no miscommunication by me.
    Giana Levy, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025

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