messy

Example Sentences

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Some people might judge Roxanne’s home as messy or unkempt.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

It’s a process that is messy, human and complicated.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

“This is likely to be a messy quarter for Intel, but on balance we are feeling somewhat more positive as the agentic server CPU surge increasingly seems real,” wrote Bernstein analyst Stacy A. Rasgon.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

No matter what the pollsters have on their nice clear bar chats, real voters are messy.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

I took the messy plastic bag from his hands.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller