How To Use Mistaking In A Sentence
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As we enter the house with the mezuzah on one side and the Chanukah menorah on the other, there is no mistaking the Jewish focus of the home.
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Detecting the spy behind the curtain and mistaking him for King Claudius, Hamlet plunges his sword into the arras and slays Polonius.
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For Trevino, his clients, anyone on the short end, there's no mistaking that law is the handmaid to power, and power is something the vast majority of people here haven't got enough of.
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Camouflaged clothing and scent neutralizers can fool a whitetail's eyes and nose, but there's no mistaking a human voice.
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The historical school mistaking what men have done for what men should do and, while often missing the full induction of the past, scornfully rejecting as empty apriorism deductive reasoning from the nature of man, presents a materialistic, evolutionary, and positivistic view of human society, which in no way appeals to sane reason.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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But there was no mistaking the genuinely violinistic quality of the solo part.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was no mistaking it, it was a "lattice" -- a real one, with old bluish panes set in sturdy black moldings, not the stage variety made of plate glass and papier-mache that he had seen in the sham cottage of aesthetic suburbs at home.
The Refugees
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In the end, it's an argument that profoundly misunderstands the role and the workings of fiction, mistaking its ability to reflect and allegorize the world for an idea that a change in the representation might change the world reflected and allegorized.
The “Do You Know What MySpace Is?” of its Day | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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There's no mistaking the immediate effect the freshman had on the University of Arizona program, however.
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Once I nearly picked a night-adder up, mistaking it for a skein of darning wool.
ON CATS
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Since the apparent size of the creature depends on how fur away it is, then mistaking either the distance or size will result in misjudging the other accordingly.
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Like an insecure teenager, we shout obscenities, mistaking disdain for interest.
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When the action heats up, though, there's no mistaking that Shay Sweet burns with a seemingly unquenchable sexual thirst.
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From a distance, it could be plaster of Paris, but up close there is no mistaking the fine, crazed lines of human skin.
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We are always mistaking him for his twin brother.
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We therefore do him the injustice of mistaking his infirmity for perversity.
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But there was no mistaking the damage that had been done and no convenient means of dismissing its root organizational causes.
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Despite the shamefaced grins that characterised the victims' interviews, there was no mistaking their anger.
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We've lost sight of the fact that vampires should be unsettling, frightening, and not high school prom kings; but there's no mistaking in Let the Right One In that the vampire is a predator and we are her prey.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 2)
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I think some people are guilty of misreading our logo, mistaking newspaper for newsletter.
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I cannot see, I said, that it is so very easy for a number of men to have been continually mistaking 'flambeaux' for 'stars,' 'thunder' for 'human speech,' and 'Roman soldiers' for 'angels.'
The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic
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I wish people would stop mistaking sentimentality for serious emotion.
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There's no mistaking whose children they are - they all look just like Joe.
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We could be identical twins and people would be mistaking me as the perpetrator of your pyromania.
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Perhaps, but there's still no mistaking a wine bar for a brewpub. just look for the Latin words "In vino veritas, in cervisio felicitas" sometimes printed on brewpub menus.
Beer Lovers Going With The Flow
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In the end, it's an argument that profoundly misunderstands the role and the workings of fiction, mistaking its ability to reflect and allegorize the world for an idea that a change in the representation might change the world reflected and allegorized.
The “Do You Know What MySpace Is?” of its Day | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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There was no mistaking the affection between them, a quiet, undemonstrative pleasure in one another's company.
TESTIMONIES
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Certainly later writers warn against mistaking unusual sense phenomena for genuine spiritual enlightenment.
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Television commercials might seem more professional but beware of mistaking the gloss for the content.
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And there was no mistaking who were the thoroughbreds and who were the draught horses in Portlaoise on Saturday.
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If you are downwind when the whales blow, there is no mistaking the content of their gargantuan diet.
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There was no mistaking the flaccid outlines of a suit that had lost its pressure and was open to vacuum.
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There is no mistaking the lightly dramatic chording and rolling bass lines that would become so familiar to a nation as it absorbed the Charlie Brown specials - especially the '65 Christmas show - into its collective bloodstream.
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Never divining Joan's fluttering wildness, her blind hatred of restraint and compulsion, her abhorrence of mastery by another, and mistaking the warmth and enthusiasm in her eyes (aroused by his latest tale) for something tender and acquiescent, he drew her to him, laid a forcible detaining arm about her waist, and misapprehended her frantic revolt for an exhibition of maidenly reluctance.
Chapter 26
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Probably as Arthur Hunt says, by mistaking complex multigenic changes for single point mutations.
Reality 1, Behe 0 - The Panda's Thumb
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Thankfully, only one of these five made the common error of mistaking morbidity for profundity.
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These cases illustrate the scope for mistaking narcolepsy for epilepsy.
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There then follows a Cinderella-like scenario as a top Italian designer, also mistaking Lizzie for Isabella, dresses her, while she is pampered by hairdressers and beauticians.
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Bow, wow, _wow_!" exclaimed Cuffy in tones which there could be no mistaking, although the broken twigs and herbage which covered the mouth of the pit muffled them a good deal, and accounted for the strangeness of the creature's howls when heard at a distance.
Jarwin and Cuffy
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So that there would be no mistaking him in combat, he painted his Fokker triplane a bright red, thereby earning his famous nickname of der rote Freiherr, or “Red Baron.”
The Pawprints of History
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With its mosaics and albizzias, there is an Italianate flavour about the setting, enhanced by the scent of its elegant gardens, but there is no mistaking the renowned French flair for hospitality and cuisine.
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If there is vagueness in his disclosures about how he will approach management, there is no mistaking the belief that underpins them.
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There was no mistaking the approach of winter; he could feel its bite.
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Television commercials might seem more professional but beware of mistaking the gloss for the content.
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There's no mistaking the eastern flavour of the food.
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That's funny, I thought to myself, you must be mistaking me for someone who is remotely interested.
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There's no mistaking his evil intent, so the coyness of the first half of the film, which slowly hints at it, seems utterly unnecessary.
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The storyline - something about gunrunners mistaking Andy for Derrick, thereby necessitating the salesman to help the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - is paper-thin.
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There is no mistaking the nationality of the automobiles these two companies produce.
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The whole secret of health, said my father, beginning the sentence again, depending evidently upon the due contention betwixt the radical heat and radical moisture within us; — the least imaginable skill had been sufficient to have maintained it, had not the school-men confounded the task, merely (as Van Helmont, the famous chymist, has proved) by all along mistaking the radical moisture for the tallow and fat of animal bodies.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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There is no mistaking the fact.
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Duke, who is disguised as a friar, that he (the Duke) was a notorious loose-liver -- "he had some feeling of the sport; he knew the service" -- the Duke merely denies the soft impeachment; but when Lucio tells him that the Duke is not wise, but "a very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow," the Duke bursts out, "either this is envy in you, folly, or mistaking: ...
The Man Shakespeare
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Mistaking mere winners for supermen shortchanges everyone.
Times, Sunday Times
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No matter how fordone he might be, there was no mistaking the feel of Flame.
Book meme
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Fortunately, in this case mistaking water for lignocaine had no serious consequences other than requiring re-injection with local anaesthetic.
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Otherwise we are danger of mistaking a drunk for a teetotaler or vice versa.
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(commonly called the tippling exciseman,) had unexpectedly departed this life by mistaking the steep staircase of the Mermaid for a single step, one night when his brain was more than usually beclouded.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832
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But when the infrastructure for pumping natural gas out of the Catskills has finally been put in place, there will be no mistaking its impact, no missing the gaping holes in the forest canopy, the artificial ponds full of "fracking" fluid, the industrial damage done.
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Imagine looking desperately for adrenaline while treating a patient with a cardiac arrest, finding an ampoule labelled ephedrine, and mistaking it for epinephrine.
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I could only see him in profile; but there was no mistaking the white moustache, the farouche visage, and the gaunt six-foot stature.
The Room in the Dragon Volant
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When Lucio tells the Duke, who is disguised as a friar, that he (the Duke) was a notorious loose-liver ” “he had some feeling of the sport; he knew the service” ” the Duke merely denies the soft impeachment; but when Lucio tells him that the Duke is not wise, but “a very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow,” the Duke bursts out, “either this is envy in you, folly, or mistaking: ...
The Man Shakespeare
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Nevertheless, consumers could be excused for mistaking the new brand for an ancient brew.
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The old man was ticked off in seeing that two kids saw his new invention, mistaking us for some roisterers.
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He'd never called me David before, and there was no mistaking the sarcastic sneer in his voice.
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There's no mistaking any of the songs here for easygoing Philly soul or rambunctious New Orleans funk.
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If you are downwind when the whales blow, there is no mistaking the content of their gargantuan diet.
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As the boys wrestle at his feet, there is no mistaking their adoration for the father they so strikingly resemble.
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I wish people would stop mistaking sentimentality for serious emotion.
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As we enter the house with the mezuzah on one side and the Chanukah menorah on the other, there is no mistaking the Jewish focus of the home.
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Yet there was no mistaking David's deep, meaningful eyes.
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The most widely discussed, if highly controversial, theory is that candirus are attracted to urine streams, mistaking them for the gill streams of fish.
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Certainly later writers warn against mistaking unusual sense phenomena for genuine spiritual enlightenment.
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IV. ii.39 (193,5) [A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dry-foot well] To _run counter_ is to _run backward_, by mistaking the course of the animal pursued; to _draw dry-foot_ is, I believe, to pursue by the _track_ or _prick of the foot_; to _run counter_ and _draw dry-foot well are_, therefore, inconsistent.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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I remember being badly scratched and bitten by a coot which I had rescued one autumn night after it had dropped through a skylight of a house in Yarmouth, mistaking the glass for water.
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‘Now I have only one thing left to do,’ she tells her senile mother (who keeps mistaking Julie for her sister).
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There was no mistaking the approach of winter; he could feel its bite.
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Even worse, director John Irvin commits the unforgivable sin of mistaking shocks for scares.
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I am as yet undecided which of the two errors, misquoting me or mistaking me for a woman (your reporter spoke to me on the phone for more than five minutes) pains me the most.
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He muses that this need to participate confuses some people into mistaking positive pro-action for repression.
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Two nights before, some sixty or seventy thieves assailed in the dark a party of 150 Patan soldiers, mistaking them for a caffila that had just gone before, by whom ten of them were slain and as many taken, the rest escaping in the dark.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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There was no mistaking the white-haired figure of Drago strapped in beside the helmeted pilot.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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This turn also begins with Anderson mistaking the topic of conversation.
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But there is no mistaking her desire to reclaim the Anglo-Saxon lexis of food—and the staples of the Anglo-Saxon diet.
Anglo-Saxon On the Menu
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And if any mistaking or errour of either side do rise, in not accomplishing of circumstances agreeable to the fashion of either of our countreys and kingdomes, let the same vpon our enterchangeable letters be reconciled, that our league and amitie be no way impeached for any particular occasion whatsoeuer.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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There was no mistaking the determination in Ella's response to her husband's euphoric anticipation of a `follow-up".
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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I'll have the Cobb salad and the beeftournedos," she says, apparently mistaking me forun garcon.
Quixote Bronson, Savior of Neglected Suburban Housewives
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Fitzpiers recognized her as Suke Damson, a hoydenish damsel of the hamlet, who was plainly mistaking him for her lover.
The Woodlanders
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A short woman in a baseball cap approaches me, apparently mistaking me for another snake aficionado.
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There was no mistaking that painted armor of over-lapping plates or those strange, in-sectile helmets.
Knife of Dreams
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There is no mistaking the technical skill and artistry of these dancers.
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Nevertheless, consumers could be excused for mistaking the new brand for an ancient brew.
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There was no mistaking Caroline Jackson with her poignant echo of Katerina Basler's beauty.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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It appears that Mr. Wait, mistaking his way at this point, nearly perished in a snow-storm, and erected this waymark for the benefit of future travellers.
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886
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Johnson saw the risk posed by trigger-happy reporters and presidents mistaking passion for facts while dispatching others to march in enemy crosshairs.
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Predators mistaking the pinnule tips for the tegmen could take bites out of the distal parts of the pinnules.
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Partly hidden though it was by a nearby apartment block, there's no mistaking it in silhouette: a chuffing great, perfectly symmetrical trapezoid, towering on the horizon and always, always far bigger than you expect it to be.
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There was no mistaking the white-haired figure of Drago strapped in beside the helmeted pilot.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Herein," said Bacon, "I note the wisdom of the law of England, which termeth the highest contempt and excesses of authority _Misprisions_; which (if you take the sound and derivation of the word) is but _mistaken_; but if you take the use and acception of the word, it is high and heinous contempt and usurpation of authority; whereof the reason I take to be and the name excellently imposed, for that main mistaking, it is ever joined with contempt; for he that reveres will not easily mistake; but he that slights, and thinks more of the greatness of his place than of the duty of his place, will soon commit misprisions.
Bacon
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Survivorship bias involves mistaking what you see for what is really there.
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He makes his delayed entry in a gleaming linen suit, but there's no mistaking the almost slaveringly devouring ego.
Times, Sunday Times
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Somali man has admitted attacking a US warship in April after mistaking it for a merchant vessel.
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But there was no mistaking the damage that had been done and no convenient means of dismissing its root organizational causes.
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But from the first notes of the distinctive button accordion the bandoneon there's no mistaking the presence of tango.
Gotan Project: An International Spin On Argentina's Tango
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The producers would have done better to spend more time on its story rather than mistaking the opportunity to make a film as prodigious talent.
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Otherwise we are danger of mistaking a drunk for a teetotaler or vice versa.
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MOOS: Not a single put-pocketer has been smacked by someone mistaking him for a pickpocketer.
CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2009
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The presumptuous weak who mistake the wish of distinction for the workings of talent, admire the eccentricities of the gifted youth who is reared in opulence, and, mistaking the prodigality which is only the effect of his fortune, for the attributes of his talents, imitate his errors, and imagine that, by copying the blemishes of his conduct, they possess what is illustrious in his mind.
The Life Studies And Works Of Benjamin West Esq
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Somewhere in childhood - around the age of seven - I had glugged from a bottle of Bell's, mistaking it for ginger ale, an incident which established an emetic aversion to the stuff.
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In a way, Nolan makes a similar error of judgement, mistaking atmospheric darkness for thematic darkness.
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Mind you, people are often mistaking me for someone else.
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But behind his irresolution is his hatred of bloodshed: he could whip out his sword and on a sudden kill Polonius, mistaking him for the king (Herbert), but he could not, in cold blood, make up his mind to kill and proceed to execution.
The Man Shakespeare
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There's no mistaking what ought to be done.
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Firefighters are warning of the dangers of children mistaking novelty lighters for toys.
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It is also a limited work, cartoonish, narrow, raucous, too often mistaking noise for vividness.
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there was no mistaking her meaning
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Mistaking it for swelling ardour, he cants his hips in just the wrong way again.
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There's no mistaking a painting by Picasso.
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The great man had smiled at him then, and - perhaps mistaking him for a beggar himself - handed him a coin, a half-crown showing the profile of the mad old Lizard King, George III, which Orphan had kept ever since for good luck.
EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT 2/5: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar
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Though Obama lays the bulk of what he calls "a legacy of mismanagement and misplaced priorities" - at the feet of the Bush administration, there is no mistaking his larger message -- that the problems which were "exacerbated" by Bush's tax cuts and other pro-rich policies have been building since Reagan's 1981 inaugural declaration that "government is the problem.
Obama's War with the Right (& Media)
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There I was in my berth on the Orient Express, stark beneath the coverlet, with sunlit autumn countryside going past the window, and near at hand two people were talking, Kralta and an Englishman, and I knew he was a public school man because although they spoke in German he used occasional slang, and there was no mistaking his nil admirari drawl.
Watershed
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People are always mistaking him for his twin brother.
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The next day, we all commenced in earnest our studies in navigation and seamanship, the naval instructor with his assistants working us up in our mathematics and imparting to us the elements of plane and spherical trigonometry; while the boatswain and his mates gave us practical lessons in the setting up of rigging and making of knots, so that there should be no chance of our mistaking a "sheepshank" for a "cat's paw," or a "Flemish eye" for a "grommet!
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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He could never tell Madeira from sherry, -- nay, an Oriental friend having sent him a butt of _sheeraz_, when he {p. 253} remembered the circumstance some time afterwards, and called for a bottle to have Sir John Malcolm's opinion of its quality, it turned out that his butler, mistaking the label, had already served up half the bin as _sherry_.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
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Shaving, of course, is what causes ingrown hairs, which is what you are mistaking as zits.
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Paternal credulity in Terence generally limits itself to mistaking undutiful sons for obedient and honest sons.
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Television commercials might seem more professional but beware of mistaking the gloss for the content.
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The moral confusion created by mistaking preferences for moral judgements has brought a note of hysteria into the consideration of modern Scotland and its complex moral issues.
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The old man, perhaps mistaking the signet ring for a knuckle-duster, put some space between them.
Disordered Minds
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In mid-June two South Korean marines shot their rifles at a civilian airliner landing at Incheon, the airport for Seoul, mistaking it for a North Korean plane.
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There could be no mistaking that snow-capped range.
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There was no mistaking those ghastly eyes and pale white skin.
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We intentional animals keep falling into the trap of mistaking the periphrases for the facts.
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It's not that the administration has sinister intentions, but they might be mistaking poor populations in needy countries for sheltered children of privilege in Connecticut country clubs.
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A driver crashed into the front of his home yesterday after mistaking first gear for reverse.
