Sentences with construe
con·strue
C c - What may seem helpful behaviour to you can be construed as interference by others. [be VERB-ed + as]
- You can construe that in different ways
- To do so would be undiplomatic towards China, although Mr Rudd's critics presumably wouldn't construe this as subservience.
- It's just that many of them construe the concept differently.
- Her silence was construed as agreement
- The verb “let,” unlike “permit,” is construed with an infinitive omitting the “to”
- Bricklin and Frankston did not patent their invention, which some could construe as being an ethical decision in itself.
- For me, the work of the church and the gospel of Christ is supremely more important than anything I might construe as my rights.
- The world must construe according to its wits; this court must construe according to the law. Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons, 1954
- He construed her intentions from her gestures.
- To construe a sentence.