Sentence examples for a familiar mess from inspiring English sources

Ten years ago, their school system was in a familiar mess, and they passed a simple law to try to solve it.

And on that terrain, Republicans are completely a mess -- a familiar mess, trapped between their increasingly loopy base and the American mainstream.

Tepco's Familiar Mess Tokyo Electric Power is looking like an undead relative of America's housing zombies.

(The set, designed by Richard Hoover, is truly a marvel; I'll admit I frowned in self-recognition, beholding its familiar mess).

The royalty mess resulted from a familiar Washington story line: lazy bureaucrats and legislation riddled with ambiguities.

That's becoming a familiar clich at the convention center: climate negotiations are a mess, until they're not.

"From a mess to the masses!" yelped Thomas Mars, the band's lead singer, perhaps describing a familiar transition.

A familiar enough business.

And a familiar taste.

A familiar cycle continues.

Now a familiar face.