How to Use bungled in a Sentence

bungled

adjective

• The scene, a bungled reflection on wish fulfillment, brought the pop show to a screeching halt.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Apr. 2026
• The judge recently removed the lead prosecutor from the case over a bungled effort to track emails sent to defense lawyers in order to find the source of the leaks.
  — Washington Post, 20 June 2019
• Elsewhere, the safe-haven dollar is up while crude sinks as investors focus more attention on Europe's bungled vaccine rollout.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2021
• But a bungled gender reassignment surgery leaves Hedwig with a remaining reminder.
  — oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2020
• Gallagher’s trial came after a judge removed the lead prosecutor over a bungled effort that used software to track emails sent to defense lawyers to find the source of leaks to the media.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2019
• Borrowers frequently complain about opaque, sloppy and bungled service from the companies hired to collect their payments.
  — Stacy Cowley and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
• Gallagher’s trial came after a judge removed the lead prosecutor over a bungled effort that used software to track emails sent to defense lawyers in order to find the source of leaks to the media.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
• The bungled response to a problem discovered two weeks before the election left many key primary races hanging for over a week after Election Day.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 6 June 2022
• Federal prison employees say their lives are in danger after a series of bungled instructions and widespread supply shortages amid the coronavirus outbreak.
  — Cassidy McDonald, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2020
• An easy, breezy Sunday turned dark in the seventh inning, when a couple slowly rolled singles, a bungled play at second base, a grand slam, two doubles and a walk turned a five-run lead into a two-run deficit.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
• The championship isn’t even four years on from bungled officiating, ultimately deciding a title.
  — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
• An English court has sentenced a West Allis woman to 30 years in prison for her role in a bungled plot to kill a man with whom her online boyfriend had an ongoing beef.
  — Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• Otherwise realistic-looking visuals end up pockmarked with bungled street signs and distorted billboards.
  — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
• But ultimately, the extensive lists of contaminants and the city's bungled education campaign may have resulted in a general recycling aversion.
  — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 13 July 2017
• But caught in the middle of a presidential election and a bungled roll-out of its decision to postpone the fall football season, Warren left himself vulnerable to this kind of savage political opportunism.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2020
• Also killed that day were Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill, two ex-cons whose exploits that day began with a bungled attempt to rob a Coral Gables jewelry store.
  — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
• Rawlinson has struggled mightily since Alter handed her the reins, most publicly with the bungled hiring and firing of former coach and Hall of Fame player Teresa Weatherspoon.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
• The bungled operation was a dress rehearsal for their even more botched break-ins at Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex nine months later.
  — Christian Appy, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2021
• In September 2020, an NPR investigation helped explain the high rate of bungled executions.
  — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2022
• The announcement comes as the San Diego Association of Governments has been mired in scandal — including billions in bungled revenue projections and questions about whether there was an attempt to cover it up.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• Employing a cast of non-professional locals, the film playfully interrogates the brutal but bungled occupation while also allowing its actors — many of whom are descendants of the fascists’ victims — to reinterpret and reclaim a chapter in their city’s past.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2026
• From a bungled email prematurely announcing another massive round of layoffs to scrutiny around the company’s $75 million investment in a documentary about the first lady, Amazon heads into its quarterly earnings report next week surrounded by a deafening level of outside noise.
  — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
• Winter and even hurricane history is replete with bungled responses in cities like New York, where former Mayor Michael Bloomberg famously dismissed the threat posed by Superstorm Sandy once it was no longer formally referred to as a hurricane.
  — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 23 Feb. 2026
• But Alabama has consistently defended its nitrogen gas protocol as an effective and humane alternative to lethal injection, the default execution method that also faced heavy scrutiny in Alabama after multiple bungled execution attempts.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 11 June 2026
• But culturally, says Peter Der Manuelian, Barbara Bell professor of Egyptology at Harvard University, the bungled operation inspired an entire field.
  — Daisy Shaw-Ellis, Vanity Fair, 20 July 2026
• And even with Republicans in charge, other major GOP figures, such as former Attorney General Pam Bondi, haven't been able to avoid bipartisan votes to drag them to the Capitol to talk about Epstein and the Justice Department's bungled compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026