Sentence examples for misplaced about from inspiring English sources

If recent fishing reports were to be believed, someone had misplaced about 40 million striped bass.

The risks that bitcoin poses are highlighted by the sudden bankruptcy of Japanese Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox in February, after the company misplaced about £70m in bitcoins.

"We were asked," Mr. Streicher said, "was there any drum misplaced about this time" (from the end of July to Aug. 10).

Most of these contributors feel there is something misplaced about a referendum, as if we'd swapped our GPS for outdated maps and were still asking directions for a place we'd already found and enjoyed long ago.

One of about 70 copies that remain, the map was misplaced about 40 or 50 years ago but now has turned up just in time for celebrations of the original map's 200th anniversary, BBC reports.

Although I'm not a Roman Catholic, it is time for me to go to confession and acknowledge that my fears may have been misplaced about Pope Francis.

Most of the songs on "Music for a New Society" are about misplaced faith and the strange rage that accompanies regret.

If this seems a rosy prospect, which will make the 49-day tournament seem less interminable, the concern that there will be too great an imbalance between bat and ball has in turn led to misplaced angst about bat sizes and more understandable debate about boundary sizes.

An organising vision must be informative (clear about what the technology is and what it might do), plausible (free of exaggerated or misplaced claims about the expected outcomes of adoption), convey a sense of importance (about the value of the technology) and present the technology as distinctive (offering something new over existing products and practices).

Or a misplaced confusion about when competition is appropriate?

She brooks no nonsense or misplaced sentimentality about life on a farm.