mess around

Example Sentences

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And then “Tonight, Tonight,” was a song that we messed around with for about four months.

From Los Angeles Times

So he taught himself his race craft on a computer — to the point he’d get yelled at to stop messing around with his racing games — and became determined to make it in NASCAR.

From Seattle Times

But in her testimony, Ms. Crumbley said that Ethan and his parents had joked for years about whether their house was haunted, adding that her son was just “messing around.”

From New York Times

“But it’s a level of consistency. I was pretty honest with him. I saw him messing around at shootarounds and not always focusing. So I tried to get on him as far as that.”

From Seattle Times

So I started messing around with this idea of a vocal thing.

From Los Angeles Times