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Example sentences for: messes

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The WP is using the occasion of the recent takeover of many departments of the Washington, D.C. government by a new governing board as an opportunity to look carefully at some of the city messes that need cleaning up.
To pass on a wise nugget from Prudie's favorite, Dorothy Parker: It's not the tragedies of life that defeat you, it's the messes.
What is perhaps less obvious is that, much as the Cat made sure his messes were temporary, Spock was not as subversive as lore suggests.
But messes just keep on smirching him.
Big surprise: The opening of Asian companies' books has shown they were horribly run, debt-laden messes, even during the boom years.