Sentence examples for mistaken references from inspiring English sources

This article was amended on 14 June 2014, to remove mistaken references to overseas aid.

Other recent acts of violence against Sikhs — the defacing in February of a temple in Michigan, the beating of a cabdriver in California in late 2010 — involved mistaken references to Al Qaeda or militant Islam.

A simple plea for teachers to employ clearer language is weak advice it will be welcome, but what will be more effective is recognizing and calling out mistaken references to intentionality in students' answers and even in textbook explanations.

In several novels I found mistaken references to aspects of Judaism and Jewish life that surprised me because they were pretty obvious.

An eavesdropper might have mistaken their references to Eton, the Observer, and a nasty flu bug for genteel chit-chat.

This coincides with her line "Sometime I wished/For a mistake," referencing her desire to get pregnant.

There was no mistaking the reference: With two out in the seventh inning of Game 1 of the World Series, with the scored tied, Martinez took a 2-2 pitch from Langston down the middle.

She's still alive," continues my wife, who has mistaken several social-media references to Field as the first wave of online grief.

There can be no mistaking the Bernstein references in the opening monologue of Samuel Byck, who plotted impractically to hijack a Boeing 747 and crash it into the White House, thus incinerating Richard Nixon.

Crucially, however, because the reference relation is external, competent users of a term can be radically mistaken about what the term refers to and still successfully refer.

At first he was confused by talk of the Lord, which he mistook as a reference to the crock jar of pig fat in his grandmother's kitchen, but before long he was singing in the choir.