Example Sentences

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She got to keep the house because of me and she should be way more grateful that she didn’t have to find yet another roommate that could have screwed her over.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2024

"There was a lot of rejection." he says, "but if I'd got a record deal at 18, I would have screwed it up".

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2022

“It was horrible, but I must not have screwed up enough because they kept asking me to do a bunch of different sports,” she said.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021

You have to have screwed up badly to get partners to forgo the deep built-in integration and the wealth of apps on the Play Store, but Google has managed to accomplish it with Wear OS.

From The Verge • May 23, 2021

If it had been me, I thought, I would have screwed it up.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers