How to Use mess up in a Sentence

mess up

phrasal verb

• The wiring had been messed up and my lights had stopped working.
  — Kunle Falayi, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
• My mind is all messed up and my emotions are all over the map.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2024
• It’s headed our way, and it’s set to mess up most of the weekend around here.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• There are a few mistakes that could mess up your French toast.
  — Jessica Furniss, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
• The pandemic messed up so many lives and then stupid things like movies.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2023
• Maybe the local Keystone Kops of the Keystone State messed up.
  — Ron Hart, Orange County Register, 16 July 2024
• That truly messes up what one side of the ball can do on the other team.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• This marks the third time an injury has messed up Shough’s season.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
• In previous years, the mishap could have messed up her entire meet.
  — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2024
• But, to assess the quote from Wilson on its merits: No, the Orioles did not mess up.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2024
• Their accountant might have messed up and cost them some money.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• DiCaprio’s character, Ernest Burkhart, has messed up part of a larger plan to rob the Osage of its wealth.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 23 Oct. 2023
• Rental cars can suffer from an excess of slammed doors and trunks—slamming the latter can mess up the powered strut.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 May 2024
• But this technology in the real world messes up all the time.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• Giving too much melatonin, or giving it at the wrong time, could mess up your child's sleep schedule.
  — Emily Elveru, Parents, 3 Aug. 2023
• Affleck hilariously stands in the back to try to mess up his turn.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
• That’s deeply messed up and would make the widespread voluntary wearing of hats even more baffling.
  — Vulture, 11 Sep. 2023
• To most of the general public, short films are just the spanner that’ll always mess up your Oscars pool.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• Shift too many of those lithium ions out of the lithium cobalt oxide layer, and the whole structure of the layer messes up.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• The French press method of making coffee is straightforward, cost-effective, easy to use, and hard to mess up.
  — Tyler Shane, WIRED, 6 May 2024
• A lot of people mess up, which can be very aggravating.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Jan. 2024
• Which also means this is the cheesecake that’s impossible to mess up.
  — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 6 Oct. 2023
• The result seems scrambled because the dictionary is messed up.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• Wallace had messed up an important battle, or got blamed for it.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• Did a ransomware gang mess up by attacking a U.S. arm of China’s biggest bank?
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
• And for our players and staff to not feel safe in an NCAA tournament environment, it’s messed up.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
• Because nobody’s doing it; not even the government, which is messed up.
  — Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2024
• Why mess up a good thing by taking the economy too rapidly toward the target of 2 percent?
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
• This is a story of a really young person who is messed up and trying to figure out how to un-mess himself up.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2024
• This extends to the ensemble as Found tries to be a show in which each character is more justifiably messed up than the next.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024