Sentence examples for mistaking us from inspiring English sources

"The delusive color cost us dearly," noted a sergeant in Company D, for "one of our own regiments opened fire upon us, mistaking us for Confederates, and several valuable lives were sacrificed".

As for Cornelia, she indulges in such an excess of lap-sitting, leg-draping and hand-holding that one suspects it's just a setup for an inevitable plot complication: "People stared at us," Victor frets, "probably mistaking us for some May-December couple".

I prayed they didn't succumb to mob mentality and force Henry and I into turtlenecks, mistaking us for smother fetishists.

Fetal MRI should aim to detect lesions and/or anomalies not seen at US and to clarify uncertain or mistaken US findings.

Nobody would have mistaken us for Jackie.

Please don't mistake us for a cold, uncaring paper-and-office-supplies corporation.

"We get calls on a regular basis where people have mistaken us for a soup kitchen or other women's social work service".

"No one would mistake us for mommies," I said.

I mean, no one is going to mistake us for Frank Sinatra's backing band.

Please, do not mistake us as encouraging women to perform premarital sex.

When Victoria was in her early teens, people often mistook us for sisters, not mother and daughter.