How to Use misdirection in a Sentence

misdirection

noun

• Some have said his tweet wasn’t a joke at all, since there is no twist or misdirection.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020
• And that's where the misdirection comes in.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
• Could their too-good-to-be-true tip have been some sort of elaborate misdirection?
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
• There’s a lot of secret-keeping, there is a lot of misdirection.
  — Sean Deveney, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• There are levels in the misdirection, and not all its secrets are given up at once.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• But the intense focus on that twist between the graphene sheets may have been a case of misdirection.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2021
• That leads to the moments of misdirection that are the lifeblood of funny novels.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• But there's so much misdirection going on and that, in the end, is the key to the explosive plays.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 21 Sep. 2017
• There’s something about the art of misdirection, which is happening in this film in so many ways.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2023
• There's going to be some misdirection in this offense where the tight end is going to catch the ball in the flat.
  — Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Expect to see a lot of misdirection plays with guards pulling one way and the ball going another.
  — Bob McManaman, azcentral, 23 July 2019
• Even what seem like clear signals, such as the gun in Skinner’s bag, turn out to be clever misdirection.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
• But that’s where the misdirection began.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
• Defensively, a lot of misdirections and stuff kind of had the defense in fits.
  — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 22 Sep. 2019
• And how does the team make adjustments for the kind of misdirection as seen from Jacksonville?
  — Dallas News, 20 Dec. 2022
• McDaniels can call short passes, misdirection plays or keep a running back or tight end in to block.
  — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 28 Nov. 2025
• Of course, this could be misdirection to take the focus off the Nets and Durant.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022
• Look, by this point everyone knows what this is, no matter how much misdirection the Bears try to run.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2022
• At this time of year, there is plenty of misdirection and smoke from agents to try and get their players the best possible deal.
  — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
• The misdirection sweep to Trevor Davis was a creative bit of play-calling.
  — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• For a work spanning nearly 700 pages, that word is, at best, a winky misdirection.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2024
• But the misdirection and whataboutism can’t explain away how quickly the Duterte reform drive went off the road.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 31 May 2021
• When our younger daughter, Beatrice, was in grade school, she was known to employ a nifty bit of misdirection.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 18 June 2017
• Something the Bills and Bucs both do is line up with three tight ends and throw deep misdirection play-action.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• The Giants need to adjust to how Brady attacked them with a lot of misdirection.
  — Art Stapleton, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2021
• Through rope and card tricks, sleight of hand, misdirection and more, students will learn the principles of the craft as well as its moral philosophies.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 14 Apr. 2020
• Bergholm has a lot of fun with all these elements, and seasoned genre audiences — who are so very well versed in misdirection by now — should too.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2026
• This is why, as always, the finger-pointing at Reince Priebus — and the rest of the staff — is a misdirection.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 14 July 2017
• The Chargers struggled to defend the Jaguars’ misdirection in the run game.
  — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026
• Madeline Kingston, master of misdirection and avenger of addicts, is back in business.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2025