MISUNDERSTANDING in a Sentence

Learn MISUNDERSTANDING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

45 example sentences for MISUNDERSTANDING, such as:

1. There is some misunderstanding, said he.
2. You are purposely misunderstanding me, ma reine.
3. Don't misunderstand me / what I'm trying to say.
4. I am anxious to avoid any possible misunderstanding.
5. He was the unknowing cause of all the misunderstanding.

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 Meanings and Examples of MISUNDERSTANDING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
misunderstanding
 n.  an understanding of something that is not correct
 n.  putting the wrong interpretation on
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  At length, surprised at the misunderstanding, Chichikov decided to ask the first question.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
2  You know that was not the cause of our misunderstanding.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  But the command of the extreme left flank had been assigned to the commander of the Pavlograd regiment in which Rostov was serving, and a misunderstanding arose.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
4  "Remember, dear boy," and he drew Pierre's arm downwards, "it is simply a misunderstanding."
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V
5  Princess Mary wrote that she was in despair at the misunderstanding that had occurred between them.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV
6  If there is any misunderstanding and discord between you and Mary, I can't blame her for it at all.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
7  "I guess that was a misunderstanding," he stammered.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  "Thank you," she said sweetly, deliberately misunderstanding his jibe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Even on her way up the stairs, she had not thought of preparing a pretext for her visit, but she now felt an intense longing to dispel the cloud of misunderstanding that hung between them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
10  You are purposely misunderstanding me, ma reine.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
11  Not long after his marriage, a misunderstanding took place between himself and Master Hugh; and as a means of punishing his brother, he took me from him to live with himself at St. Michael's.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
13  Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
14  We apologize in due form: we are in despair, we entreat forgiveness for the unfortunate misunderstanding.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
15  There is some misunderstanding, said he.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 8
Example Sentence:
1  I am anxious to avoid any possible misunderstanding.
2  He was the unknowing cause of all the misunderstanding.
3  Unfortunately, the headhunter forgot to inform the candidate, so the meeting between the candidate and the client collapsed in misunderstanding.
4  If love is misunderstanding, who let I can return to perfect.
5  Perhaps I was indirectly responsible for the misunderstanding.
6  We try to preclude any possibility of misunderstanding.
7  I am hopeful this misunderstanding will be rectified very quickly.
8  Both sides can maintain plausible deniability and simply claim a misunderstanding.
9  Upsets may occur, even painful misunderstandings and separations, yet the essential love remains, and might again flourish, more temperately.
10  If you think that these transport problems can be solved by building more roads, you completely misunderstand the nature of the problem.
11  Don't misunderstand me / what I'm trying to say.
12  He would compel her to listen to what he had to say; he would never again jeopardize their happiness by allowing her to misunderstand him.