Sentence examples for that was a mess from inspiring English sources

"The governor walked into his job inheriting a deficit of $6 billion, an E-ZPass system that was a mess, debt and mismanagement; and he spent the first year cleaning up those problems," Mr. Fox said.

The New Yorker, September 8 , 1928P. 11 Guest on yacht compliments host on the good dinner and host says "You poor landlubber, that wasn't a dinner, that was a mess, wasn't it, Sam Samam, the cook, says "Yassuh, I'll try to do better".

It even protects unpublished work, an issue that was a mess under prior rules.

"That was a mess, too," he said.

"That was a mess, right there.

"The general feeling is, 'Something happened late last year, and gee, that was a mess, but life goes on,' " said Walt Crowley, an author and director of historylink.org, a Web site of Seattle history and lore.

"I will always be writing people that are a mess," he assures me.

Design is about taking things that are a mess and putting them into some semblance of order.

Despite rallying to win five games since becoming the Broncos' starting quarterback, Tebow has a throwing motion that is a mess, field vision that seems blurred.

Some of this is the fault of a budget-making system that is a mess of special favors, stopgap measures, side deals, promissory notes and flimflam.

No matter how many is the right number, there are still too many Macy's stores that are a mess.