Example Sentences

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“These guys were trying to steal money from innocent people, and somebody was messing with them,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

I went up as him and was messing around with the voice a little bit, and people were eating it up.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024

"At the start, everyone was messing around and then, I don’t know, out of nowhere it grew on us and we realised that this is life," he says.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2024

Didn't he know who he was messing with?

From Salon • May 22, 2024

Instead, I was messing around on a gray mat that smelled of the sweat of a thousand wrestling matches.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt