How to Use muddle through in a Sentence

muddle through

verb

• For now, the focus is finding a way to muddle through well enough to keep Ukraine in the fight.
  — Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
• But the Lionesses have found ways to muddle through and move on.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• Russia can muddle through, as long as the West weakens, too.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
• While dealing with grief, Fleabag muddles through life and love with a unique wit and a penchant for breaking the fourth wall.
  — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 July 2023
• For many of us, this year’s Christmas will mean finding a way to muddle through somehow.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• The idea is to thrive through this challenging period, not just muddle through.
  — Erin Hutchinson, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• Still, there is more hope this time that the seemingly milder Omicron variant will not wreak the same havoc and that schools can muddle through with just a few changes.
  — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2022
• Will Newsom bite the bullet or muddle through the next few years and dump a huge fiscal crisis on his successor?
  — Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• Will Newsom bite the bullet or muddle through the next few years and dump a huge fiscal crisis on his successor?
  — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
• West Coast Fitness would be able to muddle through into the beginning of next year, when hopes are high that a vaccine will sharply curtail the virus' spread.
  — oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2020
• Football—and not just football, but all sports—has a rich tradition of looking the other way and trying to muddle through.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 June 2022
• Once the show is over, Stomper is on its own once again, muddling through feathers and replicating tricks with a skateboarder leaving the venue.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2023
• The result is that many could end up muddling through with Charles as king, even if their populations don’t feel a strong affinity for him.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• Now, those of you who already know the answers and think this is easy, kindly go smugly off to read some other section of the newspaper and leave the rest of us to muddle through.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 23 July 2021
• Despite her happy childhood, Dupont watched her friends and classmates who grew up in unstable homes muddle through their youths.
  — Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2024
• Ample evidence suggests that Putin will be able to muddle through as usual.
  — Alexander Gabuev, The Atlantic, 29 June 2023
• If the experience of the 1990s is any guide, UN aid agencies will manage the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s work by muddling through.
  — Steve Coll, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
• Orsted has had to muddle through inflation that hit the global offshore-wind industry the last two years, said Robinson, which is among the reasons investors view it as risky now.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 7 Feb. 2024
• In short, a chastened Sri Lankan government will try to muddle through, hope the pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine end soon, and do its best to secure long-term financial health.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 4 June 2022
• There’s no sense in this book that a life is something to muddle through, with pockets of happiness and unhappiness along the way, or that a life might be best lived in service to something other than the self.
  — Christine Smallwood, Vulture, 6 May 2024
• Often, though, the rural hospitals just muddle through.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2021
• There’s growing confidence that Europe can muddle through the next three years, albeit with relatively high and volatile prices.
  — Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• That means taking a step back to assess the current state of your business, its potential opportunities and threats, and how best to move forward—rather than just muddling through.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• The search for Gizmo drew in strangers perhaps seeking a simpler thing to care about at a time when even our quotidian cares — to not get sick, to muddle through, to survive — are monumental.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
• But the currency muddled through in recent months as inflation proved more stubborn than many had expected.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 13 July 2023
• Strout's singular writing and unforgettable characters are a fine match for a story about a modern moment, and the ways in which people do their best to muddle through.
  — The Editors, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2022
• Despite his limited hearing, Spruill played drums in Carver’s band and muddled through classes by reading his teachers’ lips.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
• His long record in politics and frequent flip-flops on strategy incline him to procrastinate and muddle through.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Without all that, we’d have been forced to somehow muddle through Covid without severe social distancing mandates.
  — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2022
• The government can probably muddle through in the immediate term, thanks to the forbearance of foreign creditors such as China, but the risk of default will rise unless an IMF deal can be reached soon.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 12 May 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024