Sentence examples for messily from inspiring English sources

Dictionary

messily

adverb

In a messy manner; sloppily, shoddily.

synonyms

Exact(60)

Even Haneke would approve of the suffering of Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs, taking the entire film to bleed out through his stomach, as messily and agonizingly as you could wish for – and a deliberate rebuke to the casualness of bullet-wounds in every other movie you've seen.

As he observes, a tight-fitting lid will do the trick rather less messily; if you don't have one, seal the dish well with foil before covering.

They ate messily, slept, and listened to other things on their earphones.

The idea would be to transform messily overlapping competitors into European champions, one in energy (Siemens) and the other in transport (Alstom).The prospect of losing most of this "industrial jewel" to a foreign buyer has touched a nerve.

But now that the whole thing has ended messily, Wall Street has become everybody's favourite scapegoat.

Now, Mr Obama's staff and Mr Richardson's are messily trading allegations about who disclosed what to whom.

Civil wars tend to end as messily as they are fought.

Unravelling institutions of the scale of ABN is complex: customers, employees and IT systems will bleed messily across the neat theoretical divisions between consortium members.The end of the ABN saga does not herald a rush of dealmaking among banks.

But from the start Rainer Brüderle of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), Jürgen Trittin of the Greens and Gregor Gysi of the anti-capitalist Left bickered so loudly and messily that the debate was hard to follow, even just acoustically.As the candidates returned to the campaign trail and their canned speeches, it seemed as if nothing had changed.

Or is it what many experienced investors see as an Internet bubble about to burst very messily indeed?Amazon is one of a handful of elite Internet pioneers notably America Online AOLL) and Yahoo to have acquired blue-chip status with Internet enthusiasts.

Each card is a dog-eared booklet, messily filled in to show purchases of subsidised food under the PDS.

Show more...

Ludwig, your English writing platform

Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.

Student

Used by millions of students, scientific researchers, professional translators and editors from all over the world!

MitStanfordHarvardAustralian Nationa UniversityNanyangOxford

Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak quote

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak

CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com

Get started for free

Unlock your writing potential with Ludwig

Letters

Most frequent sentences: