How to Use messy in a Sentence

messy

adjective

• Painting a room can be messy work.
• Some kinds of glue are messier than others.
• Both were also messy from the birria juices in the tacos.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024
• Worn with the wrong pieces, the look can seem messy or ill-defined.
  — René Chávez Esparza, Glamour, 17 June 2025
• Her hair was pulled into a messy bun on the top of her head.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
• All right, that brings us to the veto and the eviction, and folks, things get messy.
  — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• Balloons emerged as a new and messy weapon of war this year.
  — Stella Kim, NBC News, 24 July 2024
• Her hair is in a messy wavy style, and her skin is glowing.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Aug. 2023
• The quickest route to mealtime stress has to be a messy pantry.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Apr. 2025
• Worse, a messy space can add stress to your daily life.
  — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• The trail from the bay leading to the preserve’s entrance is rough, rocky and messy.
  — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2025
• The Red Raiders’ defense Adams fine-tuned makes things messy.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2022
• The dips are wet, messy behemoths of meat, juice and bread.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
• There’s no reason to put boots on the ground, because on the ground, things get messy.
  — Craig Michel, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
• What followed was a whole bunch of messy bickering in the press.
  — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2024
• Cotton: She’s owned the fact that some of her gameplay was quite messy.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 27 Feb. 2025
• The messy end to two decades of the US mission in Afghanistan raises so many questions.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 30 Aug. 2021
• Things get messy and deadly from there, as hordes of the undead descend on the land.
  — Megan Vick, EW.com, 30 May 2024
• The reason is simple: Even the best humans are a bit messy.
  — Agur Jõgi, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• The show acknowledges our lives can be/will be/are messy.
  — CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
• Kim’s hair was pulled back into a low messy bun, with a few strands of hair to frame her face.
  — Julia Teti, WWD, 28 Jan. 2025
• Her blonde hair was worn in a messy updo with her bangs sweeping the side of her face.
  — Lori A Bashian Fox News, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2024
• If only the rest of this messy midnight-movie mass was worthy of it.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
• Go ahead, get a head start on your spring cleaning with what is often the messiest space in the home: the kitchen.
  — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 28 Apr. 2023
• Evelin is messy, but Corey doesn’t have any sort of spine, and it’s a frustrating mix.
  — Ashley Ray-Harris, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2021
• Looks very messy for the mid-South with several hours of freezing rain and sleet across the area.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 1 Feb. 2022
• That proved to be messy even for a town with mounds of burro poop adorning Main Street.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2021
• The results are likely to be messy, and coalition talks could go through the end of the year — or beyond.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
• If a mess does happen, clean up spills or messy bakes early so that grime and grease don’t build up.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 29 June 2025
• This idea began to fray when early robot AI failed to handle messy, real-world conditions.
  — New Atlas, 29 June 2025