Sample Sentences for
construe
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    It was someone who wore nothing that could be construed as suggestive.  (source)
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    He warned Gabriel and Fareed Barakat to avoid using any tactic on their prisoner that might remotely be construed as torture.  (source)
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    Maybe I wouldn't have been quite so alarmed if I'd understood a little better what wasn't clear to me at the time: that I was a minor, and that my parent or guardian had to be present at an official interview—which was why anyone even vaguely construed as my advocate had been called in.  (source)
    construed = thought of
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    Is that correctly construed?  (source)
    construed = interpreted
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    Nor can there be strict rules for how the judges will construe the offenses.  (source)
    construe = understand
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    Pleasantly giddy from the odor of plants and the sultry warmth of the shop, which made his eyes water after the cold outdoors, he completed the transaction with a happy, pounding heart, construing his modest effort as bold, adventurous, and helpful, and secretly ascribing symbolic importance to it.†  (source)
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    CROMWELL Is that what the world in fact construes from it?†  (source)
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    It was impossible to know what action might later be construed as a crime.  (source)
    construed = understood something to have a specific meaning
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    For Steve Farese, a single bullet fired into one's husband's back counted as a trivial offense: a human being could hardly think up a thing to do that Farese couldn't construe as innocent.  (source)
    construe = understand in a particular way
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    Tom had been used to be so entirely satisfied with himself, in spite of his breaking down in a demonstration, and construing nunc illas promite vires as "now promise those men"; but now he suddenly felt at a disadvantage, because he knew less than some one else knew.†  (source)
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    When he questioned them further about whether they got away with more from their mother than their father, they all admitted to behaviors that could be construed as flirting—though they thought they were just getting around Mom because she was easier than Dad.†  (source)
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    Sending other men to do his office ...some might construe that as a grave insult.†  (source)
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    Tho' some of these caprices of the pit could not but be observed by their object, yet were they beyond the construing of such a nature.†  (source)
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