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
“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
Naylor, meanwhile, says he was just messing around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
Sarnie couldn’t understand what I was doing out there, messing around his hunting territory.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
