Example Sentences

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And her grandmother, Tina Knowles-Lawson, couldn’t help but laugh at a social media post that “said Blue has messed around and made Beyonce her Opening Act.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023

If you were to turn on the channel right now, it doesn’t look like anyone has messed with it.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2023

"But now we'll end up at Victoria Coach Station and have to travel back to Euston. It has messed us up a little bit."

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2023

The Fed’s aggressive policy of slowing inflation by raising borrowing costs has messed with investor psychology, Lawrence Gillum, a fixed income strategist at LPL Financial, told DealBook.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2022

"Tell her to hold the wire till you get better connections—the storm has messed up connections terribly—and keep your own wire open and make her hold her end."

From Children of the Whirlwind by Scott, Leroy