messing around
Example Sentences
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Right now, however, he looks like a kid who spent the morning messing around with his friends.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
They need to know you’re not messing around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
“If you’re a company who’s messing around with these types of practices on consumers, you’re watching how well they work,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive think tank.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026
One clip of Bebe shows her messing around at home in an oversized hat while wearing a backpack.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2025
What Shifa hadn’t told Zheng was that Razi was supposed to have gone with their father that day but had been messing around with his friends and been too late.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
