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
Elsewhere, the recent single American Girls gained a long, trippy intro, with Styles messing around on an old analogue keyboard, tweaking low pass filters and playing squiggly synth noises.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
“Just messing around with the coaches and the players and just the normal things you guys see on the camera, probably,” Hachimura said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 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
“You’ll never find anything in this kitchen,” she says, meaning she thinks she’ll never find anything herself if I start messing around in there.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
