Sentence examples for mistook them for from inspiring English sources

Locals mistook them for asylum-seekers.

(I mistook them for soldiers).

Beckett wrote them as doppelgängers; I mistook them for a gay Amish couple with power issues.

"Twins?" "Brothers?" "Best friends?" Oddly, no one mistook them for a couple.

A mob on this road mistook them for "child lifters" and assaulted them.

The agents initially mistook them for a Department of Public Safety tactical team.

Tell R. that I did hear a series of thumps but mistook them for the beating of my heart.

She and Craig looked so much alike (and still do) that people often mistook them for twins.

Reports of giant squid date back to the 1530s, when sailors mistook them for mermen or sea serpents.

He was thinking of topping the mushrooms, so meaty one guest mistook them for poultry, with a good egg.

There have been reports of sub-Saharan Africans being attacked and even killed by anti-Qaddafi protesters who mistook them for mercenaries.