242 examples of misplace in sentences

It struck me as a rare example (even where examples are numerous) of a man utterly misplaced, that this enormous scholar, great in the classic tongues, and inevitably converting his own simplest vernacular into a learned language, should have been set up in this homely pulpit, and ordained to preach salvation to a rustic audience, to whom it is difficult to imagine how he could ever have spoken one available word.

This unabashed faith in the good will of men seems not misplaced, for not only do public men show some confidence in the official capacity of women, but to my inquiry as to whom was due their opportunities to "get on," business women invariably replied, "To men.

Yet never was commiseration for the shepherd more misplaced.

" "And yet its silence is, after all, its eloquence," added Paul; "and the name is not so misplaced as one might at first think.

Such misplaced mercy was a crime in the eyes of the crusaders.

Those well-cut similitudes of Castles, and Knights, the imagery of the board, she would argue, (and I think in this case justly) were entirely misplaced and senseless.

Even if, through a misplaced devotion to his profession, he had determined to marry into a doctor's familythere was Esther!

"I misplaced it some time ago and couldn't lay hands on it, but I came across it by accident this morning, so now I'll take care of it.

"Just now, Mrs. Marlow said to me, speaking of her photothe fourth print, you know'I misplaced it some time ago,' she said, 'and couldn't lay hands on it, but I came across it accidentally this morning.'

It is such an unusual thing for me to misplace anything that I turned over every paper on my desk in searching for it.

We frequently misplace esteem, By judging men by what they seem, To birth, wealth, power, we should allow Precedence, and our lowest bow.

Ever' time he misplace somp'n, he feel in his pocket to see ef it ain't thaiuh.

Indeed, it was her misfortune always to misplace her affections,which is so often the case in the marriages of superior women, as if they loved the image merely which their own minds created, as Dante did when he bowed down to Beatrice.

V. displace, misplace, displant^, dislodge, disestablish; exile &c (seclude) 893; ablegate^, set aside, remove; take away, cart away; take off, draft off; lade &c 184. unload, empty &c (eject) 297; transfer &c 270; dispel. vacate; depart &c 293.

Every care hath his just order; neither is there any one either neglected or misplaced.

It has been so often misplaced.

This adulation of the Bourbon family in his sermon, besides the meanness of it, was highly misplaced, coming from the mouth of a Protestant minister, and somebody exclaimed on leaving the Church: "Que doit-on penser d'un ministre protestant du Canton de Vaud, qui prodigue des louanges à une famille qui a été l'ennemie acharnée de l'Elise reformée, et qui a persécuté les protestants d'une manière si atroce?"

The tremulous voice took on new confidence, but the marrow of my spine turned icy as I heard the fatally misplaced and confused words that followed: "If any man knowknow just and good cause why this womanwhy this womanshould not" Bartholomew Storrs's gaunt hand shot upward, high in air, outspread in the gesture of forbiddance.

"There was a hearty chuckle and another voice said: "I know it's mean to make you a victim of misplaced confidence, but it came across me like a flash that I couldn't do a better thing for the Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts and all the 'good scouts,' old and young, than to broadcast a good word for my friend Marconi.

"The real with its meaning read wrong and emphasis misplaced is the unreal.

Kansa is now confronted with the ghastly truthhow Vasudeva's willingness to surrender his first six sons has lulled his suspicions, how his confidence in Vasudeva has been entirely misplaced, and how completely he has been deceived.

Here and there is some discrowned Lear, who has thrown off his regal mantle, and stands in faded russet, misplaced among the monarchs.

We misplace our tenderness in winter, and look with pity upon the leafless trees.

Great monarch, your devotion you misplace.

Your guilty kindness why do you misplace? 'Tis meant to him, he is your private choice; I was made yours but by the public voice.

242 examples of  misplace  in sentences