How to Use misquote in a Sentence

misquote

verb

• Why misquote the Bard in a story about sparkling water?
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 15 May 2026
• To misquote a certain grand marquis, masochism has its rewards.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 1 July 2020
• His lyrics were spliced, mashed up and misquoted by prosecutors, court records show.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024
• Talarico claims he was misquoted, but has said Allred had been running a mediocre campaign.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 26 Feb. 2026
• Or, to misquote Mark Twain, that reports of its death may prove to be exaggerated.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2020
• Ashcraft said the vice mayor was misquoting her, and Daysog tried to interrupt her rebuttal.
  — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
• The incongruity is a source of tension — good tension, to misquote John Lewis — that adds up to 25 years.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 31 July 2024
• On Wednesday, James said she was slightly misquoted in that article.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
• Albert was not available to comment directly but the source said he had been misquoted in the French article.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 27 June 2025
• An earlier version of this article misquoted a line in a piece by John Bainbridge.
  — Mark Singer, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
• This was such a stupid thing to say that Ramaswamy retreated to the standard cornered politician’s defense that he’d been misquoted.
  — The Editors, National Review, 23 Aug. 2023
• To misquote Oscar Wilde, to be rescued once is a misfortune; to be rescued twice looks like carelessness.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 3 May 2025
• The Taliban later said he had been misquoted and that internet service had begun to be restored in parts of Afghanistan.
  — Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2025
• The number everyone is going to misquote One figure deserves a warning label.
  — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• But in the current clickbait culture, actors are concerned about being misquoted or having their words taken out of context on social media.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
• As Baxter later discovered, his father had been badly misquoted by the paper some time earlier.
  — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• Hur's findings were repeatedly misquoted by Biden's opponents, some of whom falsely claimed that the president was not fit to stand trial.
  — Tom Norton, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
• Research shows that even the most advanced AI systems can misquote or generate fictional references.
  — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
• Anyone who even hints at canceling the greatest rivalry in college sports is either being misquoted or is unwell and should be hospitalized.
  — Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 7 Aug. 2024
• Her acceptance speech for the Best Actress accolade went on to be famously misquoted throughout her career.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2023
• An early favorite was Reverend Peppers, a preacher who almost always misquoted the Bible.
  — Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
• Yoran’s book made the Der Spiegel best-seller list, and many people began reviewing and quoting it—and also, Yoran soon noticed, misquoting it.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
• The negative consequences of this content go well beyond the individuals misquoted.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
• On top of misquoting statutes and misrepresenting legal standards, the filing also made broad claims about what constitutes doxing without citing a single case to support their stance.
  — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
• After Sunday’s game, McGill claimed he was misquoted but refused to clarify what might have been incorrectly reported.
  — Anthony Stitt, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
• Still, speculation has grown as misleading posts reference old proposals, misquote public officials, or falsely claim checks are already being processed.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
• Trump curtailed talks after accusing an Ontario TV advert of misquoting Reagan's tariff stances.
  — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
• The Atlanta rapper promised clearer pronunciation on his forthcoming album Uy Scuti after a fan misquoted his lyrics in their new back tattoo.
  — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 8 Apr. 2025
• Omari Hardwick scolded an interviewer who misquoted him in a seeming attempt to stir up drama between the actor and Power producer 50 Cent.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 20 Mar. 2025
• That new level of credibility is far more dangerous than the old-fashioned propagandist’s text-only gambit of deliberately misquoting or even inventing entire sentences for the mouths of one’s enemies.
  — New Atlas, 15 Nov. 2025