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How to use the word Misused in a Sentence?

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Daniel Defense is not attending the National Rifle Association meeting due to the horrifying tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, where one of our products was criminally misused, we believe this week is not the appropriate time to be promoting our products in Texas at the National Rifle Association meeting.

– Steve Reed

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There have been some countries that have passed fake news laws, and they've misused them just as Jeff Kosseff would expect that Jeff Kosseff would.

– Jeff Kosseff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These are randomly selected citizens who were compelled to sit on a grand jury and were terribly misused by the most powerful law enforcement official in Kentucky.

– Kevin Glogower

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

– Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

added by subodhchakranarayan1
3 years ago

Drugs: All drugs should be illegal, except for the drugs that are prescribed and administered to you in just ways, and no drugs should ever be misused, abused.

– Ryan Pack

added by anonymous
3 years ago

This information comes on the heels of reporting that OSC is also looking into Secretary Pompeo's stated commitment to rush out more of Hillary Clinton's emails by Election Day and as the Secretary has misused State Department resources on his speech tour of swing states, as we get closer to both this year's election and Secretary Pompeo own inevitable return to electoral politics, Secretary Pompeo has grown even more brazen in misusing the State Department and the taxpayer dollars that fund State Department as vehicles for the Administration's, and Secretary Pompeo own, political ambitions.

– House Democrats

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our laws in California do not convict women who suffer the loss of their pregnancy, and in our filing today we are making clear that this law has been misused to the detriment of women, children, and families, we will work to end the prosecution and imprisonment of Ms. Becker so we can focus on applying this law to those who put the lives of pregnant women in danger.

– Xavier Becerra

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think some states are reluctant to open their databases up, knowing they have validity problems or knowing the data might be misused.

– Jay Wolfson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We've been dogged out, misused, abused and we still need to pay water bills and wash our bodies, we don't get any supplement. No discounts or nothing for buying water. We got to fend for our self.

– Fortina Harris

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Opioids can be misused.

– Tracy Miner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The rapid and wide-scale dissemination of this hateful content — live-streamed on Facebook, uploaded on YouTube and amplified on Reddit — shows how easily the largest platforms can still be misused. It is ever clearer that YouTube, in particular, has yet to grapple with the role it has played in facilitating radicalization and recruitment.

– Mark Warner

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Europe doesn't have that -- France ended theirs in 1993 -- and most parts of Asia, many parts of Asia don't have it, so many others, constitutional scholars, have argued that the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted or misused in this way.

– George Conway

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Almost all of the increases in overdose deaths are attributed to illicitly manufactured fentanyl, not pharmaceutical fentanyl that has been misused or diverted. And we know that because the number of prescriptions for pharmaceutical fentanyl has remained relatively stable over the past decade, whereas seizures of illicitly manufactured fentanyl has skyrocketed, so it really is due to illicitly manufactured fentanyl that is entering the market and that is essentially being mixed with heroin so that Lindsay LaSalle have an adulterated product that people aren't aware of, so their risk of overdose increases substantially.

– Lindsay LaSalle

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I have done nothing illegal, if the people want to know if I misused state resources, the answer is simply no, I have not.

– Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Plants are very potent as medicine, the story exemplifies a really sad example of how some plants, when they're misused or using the wrong plant, can be incredibly harmful.

– Jaclyn Chasse

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It can be a lethal weapon if misused.

– Issam Abdeen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It has been showcased as a tool exclusively meant for disbursement of subsidies and we do not realize that it can also be used for mass surveillance, can the government ... assure us that this Aadhaar card and the data that will be collected under it – biometric, biological, iris scan, finger print, everything put together – will not be misused as has been done by the NSA in the U.S.?

– Tathagata Satpathy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

2.“Life is like a traffic jam. You’ve got to be patient and wait on till an opportunity comes for you to drive ahead”. 3.“Life is like an onion, the deeper you peel into it the more tears it brings to your eyes”. 4.“Never wait for the best time to do good because good can be done best any time”. 5.“Think creatively, plan minutely and act resolutely and success is sure to come your way”. 6.“All intelligent persons are not successful but all successful people are intelligent”. 7.“Winners are those who act on their dreams but losers are those who dream of their acts”. 8.“Learning to accept defeat is the first step towards victory”. 9.“People who complain about their life are like beggars sitting on a heap of gold”. 10.“Theology is the study of God but not all theologians discover God”. 11. “One who discerns God’s will is treading on the path of salvation”. 12.“Environmental pollution is the most deadly sin because it springs from lack of concern and absence of love for the other”. 13.“Do not be afraid of enemies who criticize you but beware of friends who secretly despise you”. 14.“The difference between a pessimist and an optimist is that the former sees the dusk while the latter sees the dawn”. 15.“Religious fanaticism is the religion of the most irreligious and Godless people”. 16.“He who says only my religion is good, is putting a fence around God’s goodness and is guilty of God manipulation”. 17.“Too much religiosity is bad for the soul as too much food is bad for the body. Religious excessiveness is the breeding ground of fanaticism”. 18.“A religion that does not teach love of neighbour is either a bad religion or no religion at all”. 19.“A community is not an addition of number but a multiplication of love”. 20.“The three most important components of an ideal community are: the head to think and plan, the heart to forgive and love and the hands to serve and care”. 21.“Peace is a rare commodity which can be bought only through love”. 22.“Personal freedom is not a privilege to be misused but a responsibility to be carried out”. 23.“True love starts with perception and ends in compassion”. 24.“A good ship is tested in stormy weather so too true friendship is tested in difficult times”. 25.“Every tree cut down is oxygen lost and life endangered”. 26.“Wars are the darkest spots in human history and the height of human folly”. 27.“There is no greater fool than the one who does not know himself”. 28.“There is no greater folly than the failure to grab opportunities in life”. 29.“An education that does not form the heart leads to deviation of character”. 30.“Education that does not open the mind and heart of a person is a self defeating endeavour”. 31.“Education begins in the womb and ends in the tomb”.

– Dr. Barnes Mawrie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Where needed, financial assets have been seized, including real estate, for example flats in the Swiss Alps, i would like to emphasize that investments in real estate can be misused for the purpose of money laundering.

– Michael Lauber

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Suboxone is an opioid medication, it can be misused. Some use it intravenously, they inject it, and they have lost control over the medication and are truly addicted. But that's really a small portion of patients. All the evidence shows that this is small.

– Adam Bisaga

Found on CNN
8 years ago

While we have noted some improvements, for example in the election law, the advantages of incumbency were still misused, greater equal treatment in law and in fact for all political forces is required for Tajikistan to live up to its democratic commitments.

– Geir Joergen Bekkevold

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is no systematic torture, and if some cases have been reported, those are the acts of individuals who have misused their authority, and we are fully committed to investigate and arrest those individuals.

– Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

– Herbert Spencer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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