Example sentences for: bungled

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

  • The Greek government recently stepped up its long-running campaign to get them back and got the British Museum to admit that it bungled their restoration in 1938.

  • The Turkish earthquake of August 17 and its disastrously bungled relief effort--the official death toll now stands at 17,997 --is a depressingly familiar story.

  • Critics say the district attorney's office has bungled the case because it has little experience with homicides: JonBenet was the college town's only murder victim in 1996.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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