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Example sentences for "mishandled"

Lexicographically close words:
misgivings; misgoverned; misgovernment; misguided; mish; mishandling; mishap; mishapen; mishaps; misinformation
  1. It was, indeed, a shameful thing that the most important occurrences of the whole war should be so shockingly mangled and mishandled in the retelling.

  2. He jumped for the man who had mishandled him, his knifeblade licking out like a snake's tongue.

  3. You have miscalled us and mishandled us before the men, and we scarce know at this moment why we should risk our lives in fighting for the cabin and against the foc'sle.

  4. Tell me, my pretty, why you were so mishandled and laid in the bilboes aboard yonder craft?

  5. It was a band of women who took me in the thorp and brought me up into the Castle, and mishandled me there, and cast me into prison there; whereas these be good fellows, and frank and free of aspect.

  6. Wilt not stick him with thy pike, having, as he hath, so mishandled thee?

  7. Nay, I scarce think that they would have mishandled you so," said Alleyne in surprise.

  8. English burghers, not to be mishandled either in our country or abroad.

  9. One man was so violently mishandled that he fainted, and was carried in a waggon the first part of the way.

  10. The Germans seized me in my garden, and mishandled me in every kind of way.

  11. Here, the sons of a wealthy Berlin family were mishandled by a private tutor to such an extent that one of the children died.

  12. Secondly, a mishandled gun would have fired upwards.

  13. In his hurry to get ready he had mishandled his gun, and sent a bullet through his ear.

  14. He knew that in due course the mishandled embryo experienced birth, entering the world normally as a helpless, feebly squirming, pathetically vulnerable mite, and in no way drew unusual attention to itself.

  15. Life had brutally mishandled and shackled--life had?

  16. The mob threatened and mishandled Germans in the streets, in the railway stations and in the trains, and the authorities permitted it.

  17. He seemed to be dangling between two worlds, mishandled by either that he approached.

  18. He had been mishandled by the employees of capital and the guardians of society; he had been mobbed by labor.

  19. Otherwise her mistress nowise mishandled or threatened her, though she had gone back to the surliness and railing which was her wont.

  20. Turpio and his household defended themselves vigorously and were all severely mishandled in the affray, Turpio most severely of all.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mishandled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.