Examples of mistreat in a Sentence
They accuse him of mistreating his wife.
She claimed she had been mistreated by the police.
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The allegation that Afrikaners were being mistreated was at the center of an executive order Trump issued days later that cut all U.S. assistance to South Africa.
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Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
Two shows on Netflix last year helped inject momentum into a slow-moving legal process, and new interest in the brothers’ fate was fueled by campaigns on TikTok and other social media by younger people who felt the brothers were mistreated in the 1990s.
—Tim Arango, New York Times, 15 May 2025
At one point, Crittenton said that he was being mistreated in prison.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Trump is working to weaponize immigration enforcement to create an increasingly brutal and unaccountable system — one where anyone could be mistreated, denied justice and left without recourse.
—Juan Vargas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2025
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Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
Two shows on Netflix last year helped inject momentum into a slow-moving legal process, and new interest in the brothers’ fate was fueled by campaigns on TikTok and other social media by younger people who felt the brothers were mistreated in the 1990s.
—Tim Arango, New York Times, 15 May 2025
At one point, Crittenton said that he was being mistreated in prison.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Trump is working to weaponize immigration enforcement to create an increasingly brutal and unaccountable system — one where anyone could be mistreated, denied justice and left without recourse.
—Juan Vargas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for mistreat
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“Mistreat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mistreat. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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