mess with

Example Sentences

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“When we go public on something, we have to go really hard,” Chadwick said in an interview, adding that it is necessary “so people know not to mess with you.”

From The Wall Street Journal

You didn’t mess with Mrs. Smith.

From Literature

I took another bite of lasagna even though I knew it wasn’t hunger, and for the first time I wished I hadn’t decided to mess with her.

From Literature

If I really wanted to find some answers, I could always poke around in my mom’s office later, and besides, the last thing I really wanted to talk about after the mess with Elliot and the letter was Butterflies.

From Literature

Today was not the day to mess with me.

From Literature