Sentence examples for misguided phrase from inspiring English sources
"The end of the book" is, as Eco and Carrière demonstrate, a misguided phrase.
This simplistic turn of phrase, born of a misguided notion, gets used regularly.
They see their political opponents not as well-meaning if misguided fellow-citizens but, to borrow a phrase, as deplorables who have no political legitimacy.
But in what seems a major change of heart for the party, Mr McNulty said the phrase "war on terror" was misguided and all violence should be dealt with through normal legal means.
The phrase "debt and entitlements" reflects a misguided, inside-the-Beltway financial mindset.
The American South may not be the first region that comes to mind when you hear the phrase "hotbed of tech entrepreneurship," but, slightly misguided perceptions aside, it's home to a diverse and growing collection of startups.
When dictionaries wrangle contemporary phrases and modern slang, they can count on two reactions: misguided indignation and mirth.
Just two years earlier, Disney worried The Avengers would be seen as another misguided attempt to revive the 60s spy show so it became Avengers Assemble in the UK, a rousingly dumb phrase unused by Samuel L Jackson's character in the film itself.
(As she sang the first phrase, you could hear another voice echoing her; it could have been an errant vocal effect, a misguided backup singer or — horrors! — a miscued backing track).
But if the category NP, for instance, is to include noun phrases that haven't been uttered yet, the meaning of noun phrase can't be exhausted by what's in the corpus: the structuralists' positivistic strictures on theoretical kinds are misguided.
