Example Sentences

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Back in 1978, a surgeon had bungled cataract surgery, leaving him blind in his left eye.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

When NPR interviewed Rich Luze, who oversees nutrition for the Sioux City Community School District in Iowa, he worried the government had bungled the way it ended the pandemic’s free meal benefits.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2025

Some local politicians grew frustrated and worried that police had bungled the case.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023

Instead, commentators in Russia pointed to another possibility: that Russian regulators had bungled the job of restricting access to Twitter and inadvertently shut down government websites without any outside meddling.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021

Llewellyn, for the Crown, had bungled it a bit.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie