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.
• Fast-food restaurants have all kinds of ways to mislead us.
  — Leonard Greene, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
• Trump feels he has been misled by Putin about ending the war.
  — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
• The main point of the deception isn’t to mislead callers about his name.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• As a result, readers of the later post are misled, as was the case here.
  — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• The incentive may be for both sides to mislead the other.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• McCutcheon said there was no effort to mislead the Democrats.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 6 May 2021
• The study did not conclude whether or not the videos intended to mislead.
  — Connor Goodwin, WSJ, 21 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
• My work focused on the use of fake accounts to mislead the social discourse.
  — Karishma Mehrotra, Quartz, 11 Nov. 2021
• The Trump team displays misleading information on the screen in the court room.
  — Dan Alexander, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The company misled him about the cost of the loan, which was loaded with junk fees and devoured 60% of his paychecks.
  — Mike Calhoun, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
• This wouldn’t be the first time Trump or one of his allies misled his own legal team about the documents.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
• But those claims mislead about what's driving shortages of some products across the USA.
  — Daniel Funke, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2021
• Marvel likes to mislead fans with its MCU trailers, and that’s what Sony might be doing.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 22 Mar. 2022
• The creator of the Pope Coat image wasn’t attempting to mislead anyone.
  — WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023
• 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
• In the clip, Rodrigo gathers in a room full of her ex’s other scorned and misled exes.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
• Sometimes the aim was to amuse, but mostly, the idea was to mislead voters or throw a wrench into the wheels of democracy.
  — Scott Thuman, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2025
• Early in the season, the numbers can mislead due to few games, and opponent strength.
  — Stephanie Stradley, Houston Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2020
• Early in the season, the numbers can mislead due to few games, and opponent strength.
  — Stephanie Stradley, Houston Chronicle, 2 Oct. 2020
• The biggest prizes in showbiz mislead consumers to think that all is right with the industry.
  — Armond White, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022
• Plug It was fined for misleading consumers about its fees.
  — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
• But don’t be misled by that martial tone, any more than by the set, the Marines and the military cut of Jessica Jahn’s costumes for the men.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• Like us all, Millie is surprised to find out that Freddie was not the one misleading Janet.
  — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
• Still, some who’ve followed the Nicaragua route say they were misled about potential dangers and the future awaiting them in the U.S.
  — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
• In the years since the murder, Madison was misled about how her father really died.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
• The complaints, filed in Washington and other jurisdictions, alleged that the lawyers misled a federal judge.
  — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2025
• The internet is full of misleading claims and dubious advice about cleaning products.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2025