Sentence examples for tendency to screw from inspiring English sources

At every step, though, he stays grounded by keeping in touch with his cousin Chip, a Vietnam veteran whose latent tendency to screw up has only been exacerbated by his wartime experiences.

The impression that the reader gets is both excitingly diverse and depressingly familiar: tales of human ingenuity in the face of extreme climatic shift, but also tales of a widespread tendency to screw up the immediate environment (as with the Mesolithic visitors to Colonsay, who processed hazelnuts in such industrial quantities that the crop never recovered).

In a cascade of circular logic, this status helps discourage research into those very medical benefits while providing a tacit national endorsement of our collective tendency to screw over black and hispanic kids who use the drug no more often than their white peers.

The whole interaction could be seen as a comment on sports in general; on how they are leeched of spontaneity and glee by rigid governing regulations and principles, but it's also just further proof that grown-ups have a tendency to screw up just about everything when they try to enter the world of children with their detrimental meddling, Adults seem incredibly proficient at that.

Trust humans to screw up.

"We are absolutely bound to screw up".

I didn't want to screw up".

"I want to screw up my work".

Are you trying to screw me over?

And it's impossible to screw up.

"So I've decided to screw it.