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Example sentences for "misusing"

Lexicographically close words:
misunderstands; misunderstood; misuse; misused; misuses; miswritten; mit; mitad; mite; miter
  1. May 2nd, I understode of one Vincent Murfyn his abhominable misusing me behinde my back; Mr. Thomas Besbich told me his father is one of the cokes of the Court.

  2. I cam before the justices against James Shallcross and John Lawrence for misusing my name to deceyve Mr. Harrughby.

  3. One of his first acts was severely to reprimand Puttkammer for misusing government influence at elections.

  4. Nor did they assent to Bismarck's proposal that the Reichstag should assume power to exclude from the House members who were guilty of misusing the liberty of speech which they enjoyed there.

  5. The Chancellor's method of misusing documents may be illustrated in this connection.

  6. The Sultan of Turkey, misusing his position as Padishah and Titular Head of the Moslems, gave a perverted history of the events and proclaimed a Holy War.

  7. In the following sentence the effect of subordination is unmistakable:-- "He had a name in the village for brutally misusing the ass; yet it is certain that he shed a tear which made a clean mark down one cheek.

  8. The adoption of a circulating medium was soon followed by the production of spurious money, the hundred and one devices for forging notes, manufacturing coin, and clipping, sweating, and misusing that made of precious metals.

  9. It is misusing terms in a sense to say here: one can will, one will will; 'can' here concerns the actions that one does will.

  10. And from this time there was no further trouble about the lessons; for it was enough for Daisy to know that she was misusing any one of God's good gifts, to make her change her ways.

  11. And if you saw any one misusing that letter, how would you feel?

  12. I sent ij drunken Englishmen abord the Moone, the one called Gray, a calker, for misusing the admerell in ill termes, as many witnesses heard.

  13. What right had he to desecrate a pulpit of the Church of England by misusing it for the publication of his foolish fancies about creatures that had not reason!

  14. Mr. Totton fell into a strang humor, misusing Mr. Nealson in vild terms, telling me he was used like a slave in the English howse, and therfore would com in it no more.

  15. Mr. Nealson fell out with me extremly this day, misusing me as he hath donne the lyke many tymes before, which I have put up and still borne with his contynewall drunken humors.

  16. Mr. Wickham fell into his ould humours of comparisons, misusing me.

  17. His sons were disliked, being accused of misusing their power and of accepting bribes.

  18. He called on the people to own him as their true king, and never let any harm be done to them, for he hung any soldier who was caught stealing, or misusing anyone.

  19. A woman who does her duty is not to be accused of misusing anything," cried Miss Temperley hotly.

  20. And you use it rashly, Henriette, for do you not know that the deepest of all degradation comes of misusing that which is most holy?

  21. Or, again, you had set your heart on human love, God's greatest boon if you use it without misusing it, if you subordinate it to his Divine love.

  22. It is misusing God's name when we call upon the Lord God no matter in what way, for purposes of falsehood or wrong of any kind.

  23. People forget God, and therefore they are glad to fancy that He has forgotten them, and has nothing to do with this world of His which they are misusing for their own selfish ends; and then God in His mercy visits them.

  24. Therefore, He only gave me these talents to use for Him, and if I use them for my own ends, I shall be misusing them, and trying to rob God of His own.

  25. We left them without misusing them, though there were thoughts of doing it.

  26. After he was out of his time he married a woman with some little fortune, by whom he had three children, and after misusing her greatly, went away from her into England.

  27. All that night they lay in the fields; the next morning they met a poor old man, who telling them he had no money, they let him go without misusing him.


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