Verb (used with object) : I mistook him for the mayor. From Dictionary.com.
Like the inventors of the Backstreet Boys, pet rocks and the Macarena dance, Sarah Palin mistook fame for actual talent and durability. From Wordnik.com. [Alaska's soon-to-be governor praises Palin] Reference
GPA's Foley admits his company mistook the prevailing mood. From Wordnik.com. [Turbulence In Ireland] Reference
He mistook men's unease for fear, and women's for coyness. From Wordnik.com. [The Messenger] Reference
People sometimes mistook her natural green eyes as contacts. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.2: Alysia Morales, Sentinel of Suzaku] Reference
When he last saw her people easily mistook her for a boy at times. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.20: Compelling] Reference
This morning he swerved for a windblown leaf he mistook for a moth. From Wordnik.com. [Sri Lanka Unplugged] Reference
"I mistook the time of the train," he said, without expressing any sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
"Anyhow, unless I'm much mistook, you'll have means of knowin 'afore long.". From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
The ship ran aground when its captain mistook a buoy for a lighthouse (top). From Wordnik.com. [Heartbreak Postponed] Reference
It was now dark twilight, and I mistook the cellar door for that of the hall. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
She claims that they mistook a small cluster of cancerous cells for a massive brain tumor. From Wordnik.com. [Healing Medicine] Reference
I must have been crying at my desk when they saw me and mistook my shivering for laughing. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyeur] Reference
Stumpo peered into the bedroom and saw a little head, which he mistook for a moment for a doll. From Wordnik.com. [Motherhood And Murder] Reference
I think I mistook Manhattan's 'vibrance' for people just trying to get out of each other's way. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Satto: Manhattan vs. Brooklyn: And the Best Place to Live is...] Reference
Conservatives mistook the nation's revulsion against liberalism for a conversion to conservatism. From Wordnik.com. [Up From Geniality] Reference
Shocked, Davis spoke up, but her peers mistook her protest for hypersensitivity and kept laughing. From Wordnik.com. [Black in the Age of Obama] Reference
You reinvented yourself so many times in 2000 it's no wonder some voters mistook you for Pat Buchanan. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
But the Iraqi policemen suggest that perhaps the edgy Blackwater guards mistook everyday items for lethal weapons. From Wordnik.com. [Death From All Sides] Reference
When we first did it, people mistook homelessness for being bummish, not interested in working or changing their life. From Wordnik.com. [Laughing Matter] Reference
Two Japanese dignitaries mistook the water for an after-dinner soup, a traditional Asian dish, and proceeded to drink it. From Wordnik.com. [Last Course: A Bit Of Couth] Reference
The original "Star Wars" trilogy featured revolutionary special effects -- but no one mistook what they were seeing for reality. From Wordnik.com. [The Problem With Fx] Reference
Last fall her father, 79, who suffers from late-stage hallucinations, mistook Montambo for an intruder, attacking her with his walker. From Wordnik.com. [Coping With The Darkness] Reference
He just loved the star-quilted darkness and kept coming to the desert despite the locals who mistook him for a coyote and shot at him. From Wordnik.com. [The Return Of The Great Comet] Reference
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