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How to use the word MESSING in a Sentence?

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He threw a pass you would see someone throw messing around in pregame or something like that, and it was right on the money, he does ridiculous stuff like that all the time. I guess I learn to expect it.

Grayson Allen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I've been telling our providers you should always stay within the lines when you're coloring, the immune response for this virus is very complex. A practitioner might think, whether it's giving a higher dose or a lower dose, that they're helping a particular child, but if it hasn't been studied don't do it, because we really don't know what the effects of that will be. This is not the time to be messing with anything outside of what's been authorized.

Bernhard Wiedermann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With a big-time executive, when they do these multiple or hundreds of millions of dollar transactions, they're always advised by lawyers and accountants, there are a lot of layers between messing up the tax treatment and criminal liability on the part of the President, that's a big leap.

Dan Alonso

Found on CNN
3 years ago

People would not put up with politicians messing around with the very basics of the The NHS.

John Appleby

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We know kids today are more anxious than ever, and we know at least some of the reason why is that they don't have enough downtime, i'm all for some structure during this period, for both kids' sanity and parents', but I think we should balance it out with some good old fashioned messing around the house.

Elissa Strauss

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You get born as a boy and then you just end up messing everything just to be a girl. In the end, nobody supports you and you die as a miserable no one. End of story.”

Andrea Jimenez

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Everyone in Liverpool is a firm fan of the Beatles and captivated by their story and how they started off as local boys messing around with guitars and music, and became international idols.

Louise Ellman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We shouldnt live in fear of messing up, that doesnt align with the teachings of the church. One of the biggest tenets is that we are capable of repentance and forgiveness.

Riley Mabry

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

28 to 32 times, mr. Gebhardt stated that Coggins had been messing around with his old lady.

Jared Coleman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Mr. Gebhardt stated that Coggins had been messing around with his old lady.

Jared Coleman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They keep impoverishing us, and now they're messing with what our children send us from abroad to live.

Mireya Gomez

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The problem for me is that [ Jarrar ] made those comments and then associated herself with Fresno State, she’s entitled to those comments, but now she’s messing with my education. Donors are pulling out from the Jordan College of Agriculture. Fresno State professor Randa Jarrar. ( Facebook).

Bailey Cook

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We don’t agree with Debra Messing’s assertion, we’re not in the business of being a megaphone for an inaccurate story.

Catt Sadler

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They’re Sade lyrics, ’The Kiss of Life.’ These great records. And then I just started messing with everybody. I was like, ‘Come on, nobody knows Sade?’.

Bella Thorne

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Stop messing with me because I have this sacred promise to save the next generation from the evil of drugs. That is my priority, we will work simultaneously with the economic managers of this country.

Philippines Philippines President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think you are more likely to be fired for being unproductive or messing something significant up than calling out for a day or two.

Judah Fierstein

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Alison would be really mad at me if I didn't take this on, and I promise you, these people are messing with the wrong family. We are going to effect a change.

Barbara Parker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'd been messing around in the field in my early years, but luckily it just so happens now that there's this trend of China taking information security very seriously.

Zhang Tianqi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I got a lot more reasons to fight now than I did before, and I did a pretty good damn job the first time, so I don’t expect this will be any different, i ’m in mama bear mode — you’re messing with my cub, and I ’m gon na take you out.

Liz Joice

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I have no problem with the dairyman and ranchers having to do this. These are an introduced species, and they don't want starlings messing their operations more than you and I want mice in our house, my concern was that they get the word out.

Gary Smith

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

He'd left Church's Chicken, and wasn't shot for disturbing the peace, but because they were messing with him in his domain.

Ananias Shaw

Found on CNN
9 years ago

You need to stop coming on our website and messing everything up!

Someone

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards.

Dennis Koenig

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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