Examples of mess around in a Sentence
spent the vacation day just messing around
a guy who goes to the health club mainly to mess around with the women
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Instead, one of them is messing around on the road, causing a driver to swerve, crash and fall off a cliff into the water.
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Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 18 July 2025
For a while now, Spider-Man fans have been hoping that Tom Holland’s MCU version, after messing around with galactic battles and the multiverse, may go back to his roots.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
After you get done watching movies, thumbing through your social feeds, and messing around with Garageband.
—Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 11 July 2025
One obvious message to schools is that the Trump administration is not messing around.
—Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 13 June 2025
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Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 18 July 2025
For a while now, Spider-Man fans have been hoping that Tom Holland’s MCU version, after messing around with galactic battles and the multiverse, may go back to his roots.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
After you get done watching movies, thumbing through your social feeds, and messing around with Garageband.
—Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 11 July 2025
One obvious message to schools is that the Trump administration is not messing around.
—Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 13 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for mess around
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“Mess around.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mess%20around. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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