mess up

Example Sentences

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"What Alan Garten did here is a pretty significant mess-up and again, as you just appropriately stated, it corroborates everything that I said."

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2023

The prime minister has accepted he made a mistake but this mess-up is likely to stick with him.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2023

Nick Faldo has a pretty eye-opening mess-up right off the bat on the telecast.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 10, 2020

And, although I was just a bit-player in the story, the film dramatises a monumental mess-up on my behalf – the biggest mistake of my career.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2019

"If those brutes' instinct isn't at fault there'll be a pretty mess-up," thought Denbigh.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)