screwed

Example Sentences

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Do you relate to your characters’ Gen-Z resentment that previous generations screwed them over?

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

Close said at the beginning of the tournament she had to apologize to a player because she “really screwed up.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

“And the artists are the ones that get screwed if the accounting is misreported and misattributed.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

“I went to my husband and said, ‘I think I screwed up.’”

From MarketWatch • Jan. 14, 2026

It’s hard to believe that a bunch of pieces of wood and iron screwed together will be strong enough to hold up a 220-ton piece of stone and turn it from horizontal to vertical.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman