Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: mistook
IPA transcription: [mɪst'ʊk]
Usage examples
  • They mistook the mettle of their sons. The respect for respectability was stronger than any desire in Black Hawk youth.
  • He wrote four columns of editorial matter (his copy, wittily says Junius Henri Browne, "strangers mistook for diagrams of Boston"), dozens of letters, often forgot whether he had been to his meals, and was ready to see and advise with everybody.
  • "Silver," said the other man--and I observed he was not only red in the face, but spoke as hoarse as a crow, and his voice shook too, like a taut rope--"Silver," says he, "you're old, and you're honest, or has the name for it; and you've money too, which lots of poor sailors hasn't; and you're brave, or I'm mistook.