How to Use mess up in a Sentence

mess up

phrasal verb

• The wiring had been messed up and my lights had stopped working.
  — Kunle Falayi, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
• My mind is all messed up and my emotions are all over the map.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2024
• It’s headed our way, and it’s set to mess up most of the weekend around here.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• There are a few mistakes that could mess up your French toast.
  — Jessica Furniss, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
• The thing that easily could have been messed up wasn’t.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 30 July 2024
• The pandemic messed up so many lives and then stupid things like movies.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2023
• Maybe the local Keystone Kops of the Keystone State messed up.
  — Ron Hart, Orange County Register, 16 July 2024
• Tiafoe passed to the other side of the net toward his chair and shouted that the umpire had messed up the match.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• That truly messes up what one side of the ball can do on the other team.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• This marks the third time an injury has messed up Shough’s season.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
• In previous years, the mishap could have messed up her entire meet.
  — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2024
• But, to assess the quote from Wilson on its merits: No, the Orioles did not mess up.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2024
• At its heart is the premise that the artist is very often formed in the cradle of their upbringing, whether messed up or not.
  — The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 24 July 2024
• The best lip crayons are one of the few products that are nearly impossible to mess up.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 26 Sep. 2024
• Their accountant might have messed up and cost them some money.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• Also, back in 2007, the kids felt a lot more like actual kids who sometimes sang off key and messed up dance steps.
  — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 2 Sep. 2024
• Sometimes, [gymnasts] do timers and land on our necks or do certain things where our hair gets messed up.
  — Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 13 Aug. 2024
• DiCaprio’s character, Ernest Burkhart, has messed up part of a larger plan to rob the Osage of its wealth.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 23 Oct. 2023
• Rental cars can suffer from an excess of slammed doors and trunks—slamming the latter can mess up the powered strut.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 May 2024
• But this technology in the real world messes up all the time.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• Giving too much melatonin, or giving it at the wrong time, could mess up your child's sleep schedule.
  — Emily Elveru, Parents, 3 Aug. 2023
• Affleck hilariously stands in the back to try to mess up his turn.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
• That’s deeply messed up and would make the widespread voluntary wearing of hats even more baffling.
  — Vulture, 11 Sep. 2023
• To most of the general public, short films are just the spanner that’ll always mess up your Oscars pool.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• Shift too many of those lithium ions out of the lithium cobalt oxide layer, and the whole structure of the layer messes up.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• The French press method of making coffee is straightforward, cost-effective, easy to use, and hard to mess up.
  — Tyler Shane, WIRED, 6 May 2024
• A lot of people mess up, which can be very aggravating.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Jan. 2024
• Does being a celebrity grant someone extra grace to mess up?
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
• Which also means this is the cheesecake that’s impossible to mess up.
  — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 6 Oct. 2023
• The baby boomer kind of moving towards ‘the economy is messed up, uni-party, pedophiles.’ . . .
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024