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Example sentences for: messes

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

But messes just keep on smirching him.
Soderbergh messes up its surface the way an artist hacks at a canvas with an X-acto blade, reshuffling footage in a way that, ultimately, dovetails with both the solution to the movie's mystery and to its larger themes.
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.
Big surprise: The opening of Asian companies' books has shown they were horribly run, debt-laden messes, even during the boom years.
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.