Sentence examples for a messy matter from inspiring English sources

THE ennobling of Michael Ashcroft, a controversial businessman and Conservative Party donor, in 2000 was a messy matter; for he partly lived, and had extensive business interests, in Belize.

It's a messy thing.

Related: The mothers fighting to get their children back home again Our messy matter did eventually come to an end, just before she reached her 12th birthday, and the court removed itself from our lives.

And he singled out the tangled and acrimonious events of 1876 to emphasize what he felt could happen when judges in Washington thrust themselves into the messy matter of sorting out elections.

It's a messy deal no matter how you look at it.

We are denied this in life, since we can never recall everything in a messy event happening around us, no matter how many times we replay it in our heads; in a brutally efficient way, the writer, Barry Levy, and the director, Pete Travis, have achieved this.

But no matter what, it's a messy process.

Whatever the mix, paan loses its flavor in a matter of minutes — leading to a messy end.

Murder is a messy, bloody business -- and so is the matter of holding someone accountable for a crime they did not commit.

But he also handles messier matters for his clients; in 2010, for instance, he represented the estate of his longtime client, the Palm Beach philanthropist and investor Jeffry M. Picower, in a $7.2 billion settlement with the federal government over claims related to money that he received from Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

No matter how clean your room is, a messy bed does nothing to make it look better!