Example sentences for: bungled

How can you use “bungled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In his NYT op-ed column, Thomas Friedman explains how it can be that Benjamin Netanyahu's popularity is up since Israel's bungled attempt to assassinate a top Hamas operative.

  • Its boudoir is an entire forest, symbolizing Nature itself, where mortals and fairies, regals and bumpkins, make love and war, where passion becomes arbitrary and paramours interchangeable; and its last act is a riotously bungled tragedy-within-a-comedy (a celebratory performance by a troupe of "rude mechanicals") that's an ironic comment on the trivial pursuits that have preceded it.

  • "After all, I was making a long-distance call and they had bungled my initial attempt at a purchase."

  • The failed Egypt plot and the bungled Amman mission are not Mossad's only embarrassments . In 1973, the agency was widely chided for assassinating an innocent man they mistakenly believed to be a Black September operative.

  • Newspapers in both countries call the Indian government's response to the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814 "bungled and botched" (the Hindu of Madras) and a "startling muddle" ( Dawn of Pakistan).


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