Example Sentences

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“I knew that if I was screwing it up, he’d go: ‘No!’

From The Guardian • May 20, 2020

Just because Verizon may have screwed over Microsoft at around the same time it was screwing over webOS doesn’t mean that if it had gone another way that Windows Mobile would have succeeded.

From The Verge • Nov. 8, 2019

“He was very worried that Giuliani was screwing up the relationship,” the person said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2019

“It was a complex system and I was making mistake after mistake, and my coach, Chick Harris, he yelled at me and kicked me off the field, because I was screwing up,” Horton said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2018

A girl whose face was screwing up in the ugliest way, tears starting to stream from her eyes.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin