Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The timeline got complicated, screenwriters monkeyed with the story mechanics, directors brought new special effects into the battle to keep the action fresh.

From The Verge • Nov. 1, 2019

He and Hetfield purposefully monkeyed with the mix, he said.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 2018

Ingredients whose genes have been monkeyed with are avoided.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2017

What we’ll all soon learn, if we haven’t already, is that the presidency isn’t something to be monkeyed with.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2017

The thread began on a day two hundred and fifty years ago, when the biology gods, for their own amusement, monkeyed with a gene on a baby’s fifth chromosome.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides