How to Use mess with in a Sentence

mess with

phrasal verb
  • The trio messed with her big dive to the water pumps, too.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The trio go to great lengths the entire episode to mess with Wilson.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The Big Ten could expand to 100 teams and no one would mess with that cash cow.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Talk about the easiest way to look sleek (and not to be messed with).
    Marykate Boylan, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The bull was yanking against the knotted mess with all its might to no avail.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 4 Oct. 2023
  • No need to mess with ice packs because they're built right in.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Aug. 2023
  • When things seem to be going well, the instinct is to not mess with it.
    Matt Lowe, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • But for 50 games, 50 times a year messing with the traffic.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
  • This served as a message about not messing with the mine.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • His pots were messed with, and someone put racial slurs on one of his buoys.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The best places to drink in 2024 Why mess with something that is already good?
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2024
  • Don't mess with the health and well-being of New Yorkers -- not on my watch.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
  • That’s a bond that neither Trump nor most of the GOP caucus will want to mess with.
    Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Her message was clear, and pointed: Don't mess with the Doll.
    Mary Spicuzza, Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Clearly, Kendall Jenner—and Alaïa—know not to mess with a good thing.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2024
  • But in a Crichton novel, that petri dish must be messed with.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
  • But Agatha All Along is messing with all of our heads with hints and counter-hints this early.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Steven Moffat’s writing doesn’t need to be messed with.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Olympic swimmers don’t like to mess with their routines.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2024
  • Kim, meanwhile, doesn’t mess with cilantro, and Kendall stays away from spicy peppers.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Fans are given license to mess with the player diving over the wall.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • And things are going well right now with the other two shows, so why mess with success?
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Don't mess with Ice Spice and Taylor Swift's friendship.
    Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
  • The more the rules of baseball are messed with the more these odd and quirky phenomenon will happen!
    Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Part of my message to them is nobody comes in your house messing with your stuff.
    Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
  • But model Anok Yai comes into the frame, and the drugs start messing with Scott’s vision.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024
  • But deep down, there is that little red buzzer that messes with him, and conflicts him and hurts him.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Indiana, take some advice from us: Don’t mess with the tolls.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
  • So, your spouse and child may both have a thing that messes with their volume controls.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
  • There’s an option for a second helm in the main salon, but that choice would really mess with the feng shui that Aquila designed into this main inner social area.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2025

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