Sentence examples for it mistook from inspiring English sources

In 1939-40 it mistook Britain for an opulent empire - one that had, moreover, defaulted in 1933 on its first world war American debts.

His ambition to push sculpture toward painting — like Wright's to make sculpture of architecture with the Guggenheim (which thus savagely upstages most art works shown within it) — mistook the future course of three-dimensional art.

A prominent Egyptian newspaper interviewed a Republican political consultant it mistook for a senator and quoted him as saying, "The Brotherhood climbed to power, backed by the Obama administration".

Not really sure about the books part, but I am really into movies, perhaps it mistook some of my talk about a certain movie for me talking about the corresponding book (but there is a movies section as well).

It isn't even because the keyboard on my Q10 has developed a hardware fault whereby occasionally it mistook one key press for two, which makes keying in my lock-screen password a whole lot of fun.

In a statement released on Thursday late at night — something Israel has done in the past when announcing the closure of similar investigations — the military said the boys' deaths were a tragic accident, caused because it mistook them for Hamas gunmen.

If later it detects its mistake, it corrects it.

If it does, it's mistaken.

It was mistaken because it came from Joaquin".

It is mistaken to view it as a cost.

Even if it's a mistake, it's my mistake.