Examples of bungle in a Sentence

The government bungled badly in planning the campaign. bungled the job the first time she tried to do it

Recent Examples on the Web The fifth-round draft choice — no, Cincinnati did not bungle a pick on a kicker here — the kid has hit all 12 of his field goals, including four in the wild-card round, then winners at Tennessee and Kansas City. — Barry Wilner, ajc, 12 Feb. 2022 Attorney Kim Foxx managed to bungle things up early by exchanging texts with a relative of Smollett’s, and everything got weirder from there. — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2021 That is a question for the next president of baseball operations to solve, and the Mets cannot afford to bungle another job search. — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021 Other members of the board wanted to make sure the state didn’t bungle the reopening. — Kiera Feldman, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021 Don’t mess around and bungle the best quarterback situation the Seahawks franchise has ever seen. — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2021 The on-field product was a disaster, only in part because of a season-ending injury to quarterback Dak Prescott, and the new coach found something new to bungle almost every week. — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 5 Jan. 2021 The reality is for countries that bungle the public health response, the economic damage is going to be deeper and longer lasting. — Jason Gale, Bloomberg.com, 3 Nov. 2020 The prosecutor in that case, Debranjan Banerjee, told me that individuals working on behalf of the traffickers had offered him a bribe to bungle the prosecution so that the defendants would be released on bail. — Smita Sharma, National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2020 See More

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