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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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Ham, cheese, potatoes, and a cheesy cream sauce combine to create scalloped potatoes and ham, a casserole that is not messing around.
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Karen Schroeder-Rankin, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
The versatile machine also converts into a handheld vacuum to clean above-floor messes around the house and in the car.
—Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
Yes, the two-time champ, No. 1 Bohemian Special (Wiedemann), is not messing around this year.
—The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
Eisner turned off the High Street next to University College and opposite All Souls College—the heart of medieval Oxford, where students have messed around for eight hundred years—into an alley just wide enough for a bike or two.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
Also, every studio needs a big tub of random percussion instruments and bells and rattles and blocks that are great to mess around with and invariably find their way onto scores just to liven things up.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2024
Jennifer Crumbley testified that her son was messing around and had an ongoing joke with his dad that the house was haunted, and that ghosts nicknamed Veronica and Boris lived there.
—Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2024
For a startup trying to bring back the woolly mammoth—or at least something like it—a fable about the dangers of foolhardy scientists messing around with the genetics of long-dead creatures is an obvious reference point.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
Green was messing around, but again put the meaning of this season into perspective.
—Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
Karen Schroeder-Rankin, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
The versatile machine also converts into a handheld vacuum to clean above-floor messes around the house and in the car.
—Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
Yes, the two-time champ, No. 1 Bohemian Special (Wiedemann), is not messing around this year.
—The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
Eisner turned off the High Street next to University College and opposite All Souls College—the heart of medieval Oxford, where students have messed around for eight hundred years—into an alley just wide enough for a bike or two.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
Also, every studio needs a big tub of random percussion instruments and bells and rattles and blocks that are great to mess around with and invariably find their way onto scores just to liven things up.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2024
Jennifer Crumbley testified that her son was messing around and had an ongoing joke with his dad that the house was haunted, and that ghosts nicknamed Veronica and Boris lived there.
—Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2024
For a startup trying to bring back the woolly mammoth—or at least something like it—a fable about the dangers of foolhardy scientists messing around with the genetics of long-dead creatures is an obvious reference point.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
Green was messing around, but again put the meaning of this season into perspective.
—Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
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“Mess around.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mess%20around. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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