Sentence examples for messy version of from inspiring English sources

Where plumping is allowed (eg, in some Australian state elections), most voters do it, turning AV into a messy version of FPTP.

The Young Ones were a disparate bunch, thrown together in a dilapidated student house like a messy version of The Monkees.

Many MPs would still be elected by a minority of votes cast, because the version on offer allows voters to give their favourite a "1" and stop there, turning AV into a messy version of FPTP.

If one lands and launches into his song, the first male produces an "interference buzz," a messy version of his own song that drowns out the other male's signal so the female never hears it, Marshall said.

He left behind him a messy version of Macbeth, which wasn't released for another three years, and a long trail of unrealised projects, among them a life of Christ, a film of Mein Kampf and a version of War and Peace.

I wear a really messy version of a lab coat splattered with paint.

When "Kay Thompson's Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grownups" was first published, in 1955, it presented a wilder and messier version of girlhood than any other available at the time.

In the end, Mr Cameron neither blocked the compact (25 of the 27 member-states signed a slightly messier version of it outside the EU treaties) nor got his safeguards for the City of London.All sides have since tried to make up.

Dean E. Murphy's SEPTEMBER 11: An Oral History (Doubleday, $22.95), a collection of first-person accounts by survivors, emergency workers and a few lucky souls who were late for work that day or changed their travel plans at the last minute, offers a messier version of the trauma.

Make it fall shaggily around the sides of his face, like a messier version of his sister Meg's.

And in his opening remarks Mr. Houston-Jones bestowed Messies (his version of dance's Bessie Awards, which were not given out this year) upon artists who comment on the world around them.