Examples of screwup in a Sentence

Noun That was a major screwup. She's a screwup who can't hold down a job. Verb we all screw up from time to time, so don't sweat it you've totally screwed up the spreadsheet

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Case Keenum serving as the Browns’ starting quarterback this season, or anything that once again punches fans in the gut or sabotages what should be a winning season, then this goes down as a colossal franchise screwup. — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 18 Mar. 2022 Back in Paris, Julien capitalizes on Emily’s screwup and absence to get into Pierre’s good graces. — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021 Another great American screwup is reaching its conclusion. — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 10 Sep. 2021 Ji-Yoon meets with poor Lila, who is getting hounded by reporters about Bill’s screwup, which endangers her own academic future. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021 Johnny, someone to root against in The Karate Kid, is a screwup in Cobra Kai, but the show takes care to reveal his gentler side and desire to become better. — Cydney Lee, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021 The Board of Elections’s screwup opened the door to more accusations and suspicions—thankfully, to everyone’s benefit, the candidates, including Adams, kept their cool. — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 2 July 2021 But the screwup fits nicely into Trump's conspiracy theory mindset, which feeds on mistakes and spreads mistrust in the election system like a brain-eating fungus. — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 30 June 2021 That 'scientific screwup' was recently covered in Wired magazine. — Jv Chamary, Forbes, 29 May 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb On occasion, companies just screw up a program to a point where no patch can fix it. — PCMAG, 4 May 2022 Christie’s story, one of her finest, is hard to screw up, even when Branagh and his returning screenwriter, Michael Green, seem bent on proving otherwise. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2022 The goal then isn’t just to give these characters more screen time (though that’s key), but to give them the space to screw up, sneak out and steal a boyfriend or two, just like their White counterparts. — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021 Never seen a team screw up PATs quite so thoroughly. — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Dec. 2021 Breeders’ Cup held at Del Mar with a massive screw up on the winner of a 2-year-old race resulting in a cascade of boos from fans. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021 Butt roasts are almost impossible to screw up because they are loaded with so much fat that the finished product is guaranteed to be moist and tender. — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021 What should well-off parents know about how money can screw up kids? — David Marchese, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2021 Nothing will screw up a friendship like a botched love triangle. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2021 See More

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