mislay in a sentence

Examples

1. Some people mislay their passports, but many " have been found destroying their passports or deliberately losing them . . . to aid their asylum appeals, " he said.
2. This is a problem as it is the only item I have that uses this connector and I tend to mislay the exact 5 volt plug pack and cable I got with it.
3. In the case of recent scores there are usually soundtrack CDs devoid of extraneous sounds to work from, but despite the change in status of film music, present day composers still mislay their scores.
4. The photo shop may mislay your negative, but once you have it in your hands, you have a sharp image on a physical object rather than a fuzzy one susceptible to obliteration by a single keystroke.
5. Although tame by later standards, it both shocked and fascinated critics when it was first exhibited, and prompted Etty to spend the next 25 years repeating the " historical pretexts for people to mislay their clothes " formula.
6. Anthony Lane of " The New Yorker " said, " The sense of period, of ungainly English pride, is funny and acute, but the movie mislays its sense of wit as the girls grow up.
7. Even with the leather-case card-holder that comes with the more capacious model, it is still small enough that you can slip it into purse or pocket, carry it everywhere and mislay it under a playing card.
8. The documentary skillfully laces the story with details that show us the human side of high diplomacy : Kissinger forgetting to pack a spare shirt and having to borrow an oversized one from an aide; a Pakistani official, entrusted with driving Kissinger clandestinely to the airport, who mislays his car keys.
9. Ms . Malcolm's lawyer, Gary L . Bostwick of Santa Monica, Calif ., said Tuesday that the new notes would buttress Ms . Malcolm's case further in the event of a third trial, and that he had felt all along that they would be found : " That's the way the world works when you mislay something ."