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Examples of mishandle in a Sentence
The police mishandled the investigation.
Apples are easily bruised when they are mishandled.
The shortstop mishandled the throw.
The quarterback fumbled when he mishandled the snap.
Recent Examples on the Web
In early April, former Pembroke Park Police Chief Ra Shana Dabney-Donovan was accused of officer misconduct and mishandling grants.
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Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 19 May 2024
In February, a woman was sentenced to three years in prison for threatening Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the federal criminal case against Mr. Trump involving mishandling classified documents.
—Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 19 May 2024
Athletics third baseman Brett Harris mishandled the hard liner and Perez, running hard, was able reach on an infield hit.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2024
According to Elisabeth Bik, a scientific watchdog who has discovered thousands of errors in scientific papers, the problem of fraud, errors, or data mishandling in the scientific literature seems to be getting worse.
—Angus Chen, STAT, 17 May 2024
The abuse, mishandling, and the unaccountability of the funding is the problem.
—Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
In addition to the New York hush money case, the former president faces trial in South Florida on charges of mishandling classified information, and two cases in Washington, D.C., and Georgia on federal and state charges respectively of trying to steal the 2020 election from Biden.
—David Jackson, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
The body that represents USC’s faculty voted on Wednesday to censure the university’s president, Carol Folt, and provost, Andrew Guzman, citing both leaders’ mishandling of events around commencement.
—Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
Smith brought charges against Trump and two co-defendants — aide Walt Nauta and former Mar-a-Lago employee Carlos de Oliveira — in a sprawling indictment alleging Trump mishandled numerous documents with classified markings and worked with his aides to obstruct the subsequent federal probe.
—Robert Legare, CBS News, 7 May 2024
Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 19 May 2024
In February, a woman was sentenced to three years in prison for threatening Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the federal criminal case against Mr. Trump involving mishandling classified documents.
—Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 19 May 2024
Athletics third baseman Brett Harris mishandled the hard liner and Perez, running hard, was able reach on an infield hit.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2024
According to Elisabeth Bik, a scientific watchdog who has discovered thousands of errors in scientific papers, the problem of fraud, errors, or data mishandling in the scientific literature seems to be getting worse.
—Angus Chen, STAT, 17 May 2024
The abuse, mishandling, and the unaccountability of the funding is the problem.
—Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
In addition to the New York hush money case, the former president faces trial in South Florida on charges of mishandling classified information, and two cases in Washington, D.C., and Georgia on federal and state charges respectively of trying to steal the 2020 election from Biden.
—David Jackson, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
The body that represents USC’s faculty voted on Wednesday to censure the university’s president, Carol Folt, and provost, Andrew Guzman, citing both leaders’ mishandling of events around commencement.
—Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
Smith brought charges against Trump and two co-defendants — aide Walt Nauta and former Mar-a-Lago employee Carlos de Oliveira — in a sprawling indictment alleging Trump mishandled numerous documents with classified markings and worked with his aides to obstruct the subsequent federal probe.
—Robert Legare, CBS News, 7 May 2024
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“Mishandle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mishandle. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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mishandle
verb
mis·han·dle
(ˈ)mis-ˈhan-dᵊl 
1
: to treat roughly : maltreat
2
: to manage wrongly
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