mess
noun
a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition.
were messing
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past progressiveof mess.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“Naw, we were messing around when we were in Chicago and we did that,” Reaves said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
He used the toilets in the Asda store where he encountered the boys who were "messing about".
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022
“They were messing with us at every checkpoint. They were saying, ‘You are young, only 38, you will come back with weapons.’”
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
The seed of the project came when the brothers were messing around in the studio with some of the new songs and started adding little audiobook-type narrative snippets.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
They were messing up his plan to keep their crew intact, and wasn’t that what they wanted?
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
