Sentence examples for were misusing from inspiring English sources

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were misusing

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To use (something) incorrectly.

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(Not on the list, he said, was whether opponents were misusing data to scare the public).

He was accused of ignoring blatant "red flags" or signs that some patients were misusing or selling the drugs.

He was regarded as a difficult prisoner for complaining when he perceived the authorities were misusing their power.

A commentary last year in the Legal Daily claimed that many places were misusing the funds and had fudged their figures to qualify as impoverished.

On 29 November, spokesman Mark Toner told reporters: "What we've seen is a lot of circumstantial evidence, but we haven't seen any real concrete proof that the Egyptian authorities were misusing teargas".

Dr. Frist was supported by fellow Republicans who said Democrats were misusing the filibuster, which they said was never intended to interfere with the responsibility to advise and consent on presidential nominations.

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He was not a councilman when the funds were misused.

It is misusing the Holocaust.

But now he is misusing them.

It has been misusing its currency.

"They're misusing him," Kurtz says, referring to the Christians.

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