How to Use mess with in a Sentence

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• The dust, the wind, the heat and the wildfire smoke all mess with your head.
  — Maddy Butcher, Washington Post, 8 July 2026
• Maybe the air traffic delay and late arrival messed with the fine tuning of their radar.
  — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
• The lesson is not to mess with the Bull because whoever does will get the horns.
  — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
• But first, Roy has to undo all the booby traps in there placed to mess with visiting teams’ heads.
  — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
• This setting is designed to tackle big messes with high heat and extra water.
  — The Spruce, 29 July 2026
• This doesn’t mean Williams doesn’t enjoy messing with Ford on the Shrinking set.
  — Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026
• In the end, the show proved too big and too important to mess with the lead characters’ dynamic that had won over fans.
  — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 June 2026
• DeChambeau hummed and whistled and messed with the 15 or so reporters still waiting him out.
  — Brody Miller, New York Times, 17 July 2026
• The practice of changing the clocks by a mere hour twice a year is already known to mess with human sleep-wake cycles, after all.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 July 2026
• Prevent messes with regular wiping, oven liners, and quick spill cleanup.
  — Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 2 July 2026
• According to Carpenter, being known, and even having his songs known, messed with his head.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2026
• But again, that’s messing with a good thing going in where France and Merrill are hitting at the moment.
  — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2026
• The whole point is to give the owner the experience of driving the car, not to mess with gizmos, gadgets, screens, and everything else.
  — Jerry Perez, The Drive, 3 Sep. 2026
• Despite the success of Brown Eyed Girl, no real label or publisher would mess with the mob.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
• When teams began rolling out alternative and throwback uniforms years ago, the Chiefs never made an effort to mess with their game-day look.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026
• Vrabel has been messing with Jacas behind the scenes, giving him a hard time during team meetings, which is customary for rookies.
  — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 4 Aug. 2026
• Crowley suggests the messiness of the primary is because the President is messing with Democrats’ heads.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
• The new school, harder classes, longer class times and larger population of students messed with her organizational skills.
  — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026
• The milestone episode saw an unexpected storm roll in during Lucy’s big day, messing with her plans to tie the knot with Kevin Kinkirk (played by George Stults).
  — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
• Eventually, the Cleveland defense was an exhausted mess with temperatures reaching the mid-90s, but the main point is that the Browns were a mess overall.
  — Zac Jackson, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026
• The Universe Intervenes These stories often feature a main character who needs to learn a lesson, and a universe that teaches it to them by messing with their timeline.
  — Amy Tordoff, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026
• The new site grading effort is to redistribute a stockpile of dirt left over from a previous development nearby in a way that doesn’t mess with the existing site drainage patterns, according to the permitting website.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Aug. 2026
• For a face tan that won’t clog pores or mess with your skin care routine, the lightweight Isle of Paradise Self-Tan Face Drops can be mixed into your moisturizer (or layered under it) as part of your skin care routine.
  — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 13 Aug. 2026
• Named for its hip neighborhood, Walker’s Point, Wisconsin’s only lesbian bar is a convivial spot to drink a cold one, mess with the jukebox, catch a Brewers game on TV, or gather outside on the patio sprinkled with round tables, weather permitting.
  — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2024