How To Use Messy In A Sentence

He pulled the hood of his sweatshirt over his head, messing his already messy black hair.
I am three and a half and I get fed up when I go for walks with my Mummy because the pavements are always so messy because of dog poo.
The batwing sleeves and column shape flattered, but her messy hair and heavy make-up could have been more refined. The Sun
Combined with customers who would steer clear of Detroit brands because of uncertainty surrounding maintenance warranties, a messy bankruptcy could have have kicked off a vicious downward spiral that could have ended in liquidation and enormous job losses. Wonk Room » If We Had Let GM Go Bankrupt Last November, We Could Have Lost Another Million Jobs
His brown hair was cut short and messy, and a pair of horn-rimmed glasses balanced on his nose.

Otherwise Arsenal will face a messy backlog of games. The Sun
Oreck next maintained that many of its challenged statements were nonactionable puffery: (1) the Dyson is “bulky”; (2) the Oreck vacuum emits “no puff” of dust when it is emptied; (3) the Dyson bin emptying process is “messy” and the Dyson filter is “not sanitary” and a “dirty little secret”; and (4) the XL Ultra 4120 weighs “only nine pounds,” while the weight of the DC14 is “backbreaking.” Archive 2009-03-01
It was a pity he would have her blood on his hands - if someone tried to connect her untimely death to him, it would be a messy situation indeed.
Come to find out, things have been decidedly messy in Marti's household. A ghost story for your monday morning
It's all rather messy in lots of ways.
The ice cream was messy, made worse by being smothered in raspberry sauce. Times, Sunday Times
It forced me to confront a messy tangle of emotions.
A proof may be messy, dreary, tedious, or look like a joke, but there must be an unequivocal criterion for its validity, even if accessible to but a few specialists.
The rubbish esthetic was so ubiquitous in messy piles of wallboard and carpet that it began to seem a too-facile solution.
Intelligent business search turns the unstructured, messy, duplicative and rich content available online into an analyzable data set of business ideas, relationships, facts and trends. Penny Herscher: The Latest Web Search Development: From Intentions to Insights
So we have snow here… yucky, messy snow that makes my feet wet.
It is what drama is all about: a highly polished mirror reflecting the realities of a messy, urban world. Times, Sunday Times
France passes G20 baton after messy summit FRANCE'S year-long G20 term stumbled to a messy end at the Cannes summit, where President Nicolas Sarkozy's dreams of reforming world finance were torpedoed by the eurozone debt crisis. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
This messy business took place less than a year ago so bitterness is understandable. The Sun
By definition, it's a messy job for the sorters, and anything in a plastic bag goes straight to landfill.
The trick is to establish just enough consistency an immediate analysis task – attempts to build a consistent map of human knowledge are doomed because human knowledge itself is messy, contingent, and often self-contradictory. Crowd-Sourced Carbon Calculators (inspired by David Mackay) | Serendipity
Sound recordings of real events taken as they happen can be messy, from a technical standpoint, and captions can really help when audibility is hard to achieve.
Your bedroom is too messy An untidy bedroom can impact on sleep because a cluttered room means a cluttered mind. Times, Sunday Times
Bell sounds are messy and not for controlling, they also cause a litany of electronic effects such as phasing and digital delay without ever having gone through a patchbay.
It is what drama is all about: a highly polished mirror reflecting the realities of a messy, urban world. Times, Sunday Times
The fletcher had messy ash blond hair that reached to her mid-back, and gold eyes.
And how poignant to reflect on Bell enduring a complex and messy time at the hotel buffet these past weeks. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, a rodent capture still leaves behind the messy job of killing the creature and burying the evidence.
He has the same almond eyes, the same thin face, the same messy dirty blonde hair, everything.
There were a lot of short hairstyles and a return to the messy bob is predicted. Times, Sunday Times
Keep your hair loose and a bit messy. Times, Sunday Times
Him's parents have gone through a messy divorce and find him a bit of a trial. Times, Sunday Times
That said, other scenes have the vigour and messy vitality that the best Russian cinema seems to be able to capture so well at the moment. Times, Sunday Times
As the work tends to be a bit messy you'll need to wear old clothes.
It's complicated and messy, but in the end at least half the audience will sympathise with Gabriel.
However, this technique is imprecise and can be messy and difficult to accomplish.
The ice cream was messy, made worse by being smothered in raspberry sauce. Times, Sunday Times
All small appliances such as food mixers and juicers can be permanently housed there, with messy, noisy work undertaken out of sight.
My hair was in a messy bun filled with gel and hair spray, a new technique I learned that helps your hair become more scrunched.
And let's face it, Janis does sound different fronting a big, frothy semi-funky lite soul orchestra than a messy rock band.
He is going through a messy divorce. The Sun
The plan was to carve out an existence in the new country based on the pure and simple logic of freedom... well, that and Manifest Destiny and its messy imperialistic annihilation of the Native People but that's another article. Lorraine Devon Wilke: No, Virginia, There's No War on Christmas
This Living Dead Girl is no brainless zombie intent only on brains, she is a thinking, rationale being with a strong sense of right and wrong who just happens to be back from the dead…and is a very messy blood-feaster. The Living Dead Girl (1982)
Athletics is in a messy place if some of its biggest stars are convicted drugs cheats. Times, Sunday Times
She was met face to face with a guy who had thick messy dirty blonde hair and blue eyes that sparkled with laughter.
A short plump pirate with an eye patch over his right eye, messy hair and a tangled beard.
Barreling your beer is much less messy and time-consuming than using bottles.
So being a messy, indecisive and disorganized ditherer is healthy!
In contrast to his messy private life, his military career was one of unmerited success. Times, Sunday Times
Breaking Bad has a way of investing everyday objects — a teakettle, a box cutter, a local car wash — with ominous significance, reminders in a bleak sun-blasted Albuquerque landscape that the wages of sin are messy and a corrupted soul can't be easily cleansed. Roush Review: Breaking Bad and Other Weekend Picks
Asia's fledgling democracies should not despair just because things are messy at the moment.
A messy desk can be a highly effective prioritising and accessing system. Times, Sunday Times
He then proceeded to cut off all my dreads until I was left with messy short blondish hair with brown roots.
Notice, too, how the serving side of the island hides the cooktop, making it easier for the cook to conceal messy food preparation.
Once the media caravanserai moves on to the next global flashpoint, we will likely ignore the messy aftermath to the heroic events of last week.
Look at this messy bunch of used napkins, all with yuck inside.
Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier. Laurell K. Hamilton
Wii kin jest fro da bottolz ub mint jelly tz da stuffified bunnehs and addz in sum bag eggz furr da older lams udder wize called sheepz Cud get messy! Monorail Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The door was open, there were some books pilled up in his desk, along with messy papers filled with unreadable handwriting.
Only once did this production stumble - in a folksy, slightly messy character dance performed by the Royal Fathers and Mothers.
A tin can filled with information - part of a dead drop - was smeared with messy motor oil.
These are not, as some apologists claim, the inevitable failings of messy democracy. Times, Sunday Times
I am a superb, if messy, cook. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
They did pay me for the washing powder, but it was a messy job in the winter when the fields were muddy!
In his mouth is firmly clamped a white, messy bundle, faintly streaked with red.
It was a sticky and messy job, thanks to the humid weather and three long days of not taking a bath.
He is famous for messy desks. Times, Sunday Times
War was messy, and not a thing for delicate gentle lords and gentle ladies to discuss.
I think this album is tremendous in several places, in fact; a messy, dissolute record that pulls off the stunt of being musically emotionally open while lyrically open to interpretation.
Conflicts are an everyday issue, and they help forge the process in a more "participative" but messy way. 1. Using indigenous knowledge in agricultural development.
But they went on to make blunder after blunder and it ended up a messy match. Times, Sunday Times
She appeared just as I remembered her, dressed in a poufy pink princess dress with a little rhinestone tiara plopped on her messy blond head. Forever Lost
I can't find anything on this messy desk.
In one of the many shelters, a small rusted bell chinked against the worn door with a piece of cardboard with messy handwriting on it that read ‘OPEN’.
The last one to exit was a young boy with wildly messy dirty blond hair.
These are messy matters corporate chieftains would much rather handle behind closed - or, even better, locked and barricaded - boardroom doors.
But they went on to make blunder after blunder and it ended up a messy match. Times, Sunday Times
Stoll writes by telling stories, creating visions of creative, messy, hands-on education being displaced by sterile virtual busywork.
Life's a little bit messy. We all make mistakes. No matter what type of animal you are, change starts with you.
The post gradually stacks up in messy piles, until it eventually gets removed by one or other of the addressees, many of whom still appear to have a door-key.
Richard Berry, a Toys "R" Us executive and fan of the fast-selling product, says, "Kids love messy. Crayola's Colorful Soapy Bubbles Leave Indelible Memories
No messy work rules to worry about, no postretirement health care. The Next Detroit
The collapse of empires has always been a painful and messy business. Times, Sunday Times
This was the really messy bit. Times, Sunday Times
There was a messy coaching change as Benny Moss was reassigned in midseason and replaced by assistant Brooks Lee. Unc-Wilmington - Team Notes
The collapse of empires has always been a painful and messy business. Times, Sunday Times
But it's a night of great love — shouty, messy, stressy, funny, scary, big love. Times, Sunday Times
Teenagers caught up in the turmoil of their parents' messy divorce are being offered a sympathetic ear by a new service in Winchester.
I grabbed a black derby hat from my closet and covered my messy hair before following Jake back down the stairs and out to his car.
Whenever I window shop in high-end department stores and stumble across the Lacroix section, I always end up disappointed because the clothes sold are just so messy (the design) and untrendy.
It collapsed in a messy, public heap last year when oil hit $100-plus per bbl . and the world's crush on biofuels pushed food prices to unprecedented highs.
It's just too messy, too faffy and too daft. Times, Sunday Times
If the counterman began adding on the usual pickled jalapeños, he could be stopped by the non-chile lover before it was too late, because picking any one ingredient out of a sandwich this size is a messy undertaking. A Meal in a Sandwich: Tortas, Cemitas, Pambazos
It's a messy, dirty process. Times, Sunday Times
a child's messy eating habits
I am extremely close to someone who has been in the New Orleans home of one of your aforementioned celebrities and it is a pig stye … so no worries, life gets messy, I on the other hand am being stalked by a rather large and angry looking dust bunny right now … Good Housekeeping: Totally Slobtastic Slackermom Edition | Her Bad Mother
I know I might've looked a little unnerving, with my messy ponytail, slightly flushed cheeks from jogging and somewhat disarrayed clothes, but I was told I had a really friendly face!
Open-faced, blue-eyed, messy-haired, gaptoothed and smiley. Times, Sunday Times
It may look a bit messy for a few weeks but the grass will quickly grow through. Times, Sunday Times
Generally our messy shoulder length hair and denims invoked hostility and disdain from our elders and betters.
None of this messy business with everyone running around everywhere in a totally disorganized fashion.
He has always found it easier to look purposeful by striding about on the world stage than by getting stuck into the messy business of domestic politics.
Although she appears to have a messy chopped pixie, her hair is actually very carefully cut and precisely sculpted.
We were able to put together in two nights what had previously taken a week with the hectograph, and while the drum-press was messy, it did not look infected with a potentially fatal disease. On writing by stephen king
That's messy, and then you've got to - somehow - clean the lube out of the case.
A heavier-than-average baby at nine pounds something with a messy crop of soot-black hair, squinty eyes and dimples in all the right places.
The ice cream was messy, made worse by being smothered in raspberry sauce. Times, Sunday Times
Coal and wood fires smell wonderful but are messy and time-consuming.
Much of nature's factuality strikes us as both messy and unpleasant but no less fascinating thereby.
His hair was very messy and dirty, since he only got to bathe about once a fortnight and he never got to brush it.
Have you seen how incredibly messy Fong's room is?
It solves the problem of trying to hide away messy cables and unsightly stereos.
Her red hair looked messy, very bedraggled and her clothing…
A messy maritime incident that's getting worse, a cargo ship ran aground in the Aleutians.
They thought they could just proceed from there, but things got messy (sorry) as they cut the pizza more times, or, as New Scientist puts it, “the solution still included a complicated set of sums of algebraic series involving tricky powers of trigonometric functions,” summed up more succinctly as “ugly.” The mathematics of pizza slicing
How do you clamp down on messy street protests without violating fundamental laws that guarantee freedom of assembly and prohibit political interference with policing?
Occasionally it will throw up a great line but the change will take it away to messy confusion.
I can't find anything on this messy desk.
Everyone tunes into this series, which returns for a second run tonight, for a bit of a gawp at just how messy some people can be. The Sun
Cracking them open can be hard work, and you're going to get messy (a bib is provided), but the reward of large chunks of succulent crabmeat with a spicy kick makes it worth the effort. After Hours: Singapore
This is a funny time of year in the garden with many plants dying back and everything tending to look rather messy and damp.
FEC, which would have to vote to launch an audit, is prone to deadlocking on issues that inordinately impact one party or the other - like approving a messy and high-profile probe of a sitting president. Never Yet Melted
Humanity is a pretty messy business. Times, Sunday Times
Parker is a bit like Chauncey Gardner in “Being There,” the right person at the right time who was able to distill the unspoken desire of the anglophonic wine-consuming Volk, looking for “objective” measures of quality without wishing to be bothered by the messy and somewhat subjectivist notion of terroir. Wine Person of the Decade - nominations open! | Dr Vino's wine blog
His hair was a glossy raven black, attractively messy in a way that suggested more time had been spent on it than one would first think.
It is messy and confusing and contradictory to look at the world situation.
It's not safe to reheat or refreeze previously warmed food, so throw away any left over at the end of a mealtime. Put a bib on your baby, and keep some wipes handy for cleaning messy faces!
That was a messy race but his previous form still gives him a fine chance. The Sun
Back at Ms. Crosland's small studio in a gritty industrial building, they all go on what she calls "the bush"—a large, messy pinboard that reminds Ms. Crosland of a hedge and feeds her "digestive system" with fermenting ideas until the design process starts in earnest. Bringing Home the Walls of Marrakech
He wanted to avoid a messy divorce and to carry on affairs with mistresses.
They both have entirely messy stories, rife with plot holes and improbabilities.
The opening was a messy affair, but I imagine Piket was doing alright until he blundered an exchange in the early middlegame.
It's okay to be messy - glops of glue only make it more realistic.
At home that afternoon she sat in a darkened room, trying unhysterically to sort out not only this messy affair but also the general relationships within her family. Space
Seated on her bench beneath the wide, cloudless bay, she would never admit that she longed for the messy logistics of a man.
Consider yourself lucky that you don't have to slay a dragon, a rather messy sort of job.
It is often a time of immense upheaval and worry, when your warm and tidy home is turned into a messy and dirty building site. Times, Sunday Times
My skin was pale and clammy, and was covered in tiny pearls of sweat that slacked my hair into a messy drip.
Celebrity divorces are a messy business. Times, Sunday Times
I don't want it to be tricky or messy, and I certainly don't want that meddlesome idiot in the way.
Having always considered intimacy to be rather messy, I was a bit surprised to see that its definition relies on containment and fixity.
Now it seems destined for a messy divorce. Times, Sunday Times
For people owning a senseo coffee-maker, you can just put some loose tea leaves or powder cinamon on top of the pad, close it and press the start button. what works even better is when you make two cups, or one big cup, is putting the loose tealeaves (or whatever additive) between the two pads, keeps the senseo machine less messy afterwards! fresh minced mint also works great! Herbal Tea Adds A Flavourful Kick To Your Coffee | Lifehacker Australia
However, we have not conquered the messy room and clutter around the house despite frequent "declutter" and organizing sessions. NYT > Home Page
Settling on a floral sundress in tones of dusty pink, light brown and cream teamed with a pair of cowboy boots, she pulled her copper coloured hair back into a messy ponytail up high on her head and left her room.
It's wrong because people live messy lives, which don't fit neatly into the segmented programs of well-intentioned officials.
Everyone is so dramatically over-styled that in my messy cords & borrowed denim jacket I felt somewhat gauche.
It's once you leave the conceptual realm and enter the realm of execution that things get messy.
You will be surprised that if this omelet is wrapped in a chapati or made into rolls its one non messy meal ideal for kids and adults on a move. Archive 2007-04-01
The black screen flickered for a moment before it came to life, showing a small boy with messy, uncombed blonde hair and bright blue eyes.
Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin. Steve Jobs
Mom yells if my room is messy.
Life assurers could face a messy row over misleading customers unless they give a clearer picture of potential losses.
I rolled my eyes, tucking a loose curl that had escaped from my messy bun behind my ear.
He was wearing jeans and a black shirt with his brown hair in a messy style.
She laughed richly, and raised her hand and lightly brushed his messy forelock of hair. AN OLDER WOMAN
A year on from their emergence into the public eye, we are swamped with soporific, overwrought, piano-led rock played by lip-trembling white boys with messy hair, student debts and fey voices.
Now it seems destined for a messy divorce. Times, Sunday Times
The implication is that it could all have been worked out by theory without all the messy biographical details. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
The process was neither messy nor expensive. Times, Sunday Times
The only disappointment is that it was all a bit messy. The Sun
This game might get messy. you can seem to gramp up in a very Assassin's creed sort of way. Dark Diamond
It is often a time of immense upheaval and worry, when your warm and tidy home is turned into a messy and dirty building site. Times, Sunday Times
The alternative will be a messy scrap that would be in nobody's interests, except perhaps the tabloids.
He had turquoise hair done in dreadlocks, which hung about his head in a messy bunch and nearly reached his shoulders.
Mirror, hair brush, hair ties, perfume, little notepads to write things on, perfect little shelves to hold books… It was nothing like my messy, highly disorganized locker.
As they are used in conjunction with spermicides, some people find them a messy contraception method.
It was dirty and messy, but that wasn't it. The Sun
The story is messy and weighed down by its attempts at meaningfulness.
It was dirty and messy, but that wasn't it. The Sun
This messy business took place less than a year ago so bitterness is understandable. The Sun
They argue that democracy is messy, slow and directionless, and politicians to the last man are undisciplined, incompetent and corrupt.
That is, instead of the relatively orderly pattern of cusps possessed by most mammals, notoungulates have drawn out the cusps into long, messy arcs.
Once you actually witness the event in its messy, slurpy, all-over-the place glory, the mystery has gone.
Abbey showered and instead of blow-drying her hair, which would be washed and dried and totally restyled by her hair assistant, she pulled it up into a messy bun.
I've been on "vacation" for the last four days but with a sick daughter, messy house, and a beebee gun to the back windowshield of my vehicle -- I've been feeling more like a human "doing" than a human "being. Archive 2008-02-01
Keep your hair loose and a bit messy. Times, Sunday Times
Her blonde hair was messy, sticking up in all directions.
And wear hair sleek and down or messy and up to show off the look best. The Sun
Mine came out messy with the jimmies spilling over the bowl and onto the counter while Casey's was like a perfect temple.
You'd think that at that age girls like us would be messy and disorganized, but like I've said, being a thief makes you careful.
Life's a little bit messy. We all make mistakes. No matter what type of animal you are, change starts with you.
Not simply in a by analogy, ‘Consider the lilies’, sense 2, but in the sense that fundamental mechanisms about what we see can ONLY come from (messy, imperfect) animals and not from the (clean, perfect) mathematical focus of earlier workers (Francis mentions, germanely, Bablyonian astronomy/astrology – these deal with relatively ‘pure’ concepts and predictable celestial motions, not the uncertainty with which biology has traffic). "Let them learn Latin"
Sorry the place is so messy, I haven't had time to clear up.
Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier. Laurell K. Hamilton
His disheveled hair became even more messy when he ran another fretful hand through it before he started the engine.
At best doublespeak makes language sound messy and vague; at worst it makes lies sound like truth.
Emma went into the kitchen, where sticky plates and bowls and a messy skillet waited.
She grimaced and swept up her hair in a messy bun with one hand, whilst prodding me on the back with the other hand.
Living on the coast meant that Hailey constantly suffered from kinky messy hair, which the city folk deemed ‘beach hair’.
Because my hair got messy during changing, I used her full-length mirror to pat it back in place.
She rightly gave Bush credit for the effectiveness of his rhetoric and for telling the country it would be a messy, drawn-out conflict.
A virtual space cannot get overcrowded, but it certainly can get messy and loud.
Everyone tunes into this series, which returns for a second run tonight, for a bit of a gawp at just how messy some people can be. The Sun
Creating and interpreting feelings is a messy business.
Now why did he get the hot bath and shampoo from Amanda when I got the messy job?
Ginsberg's life was messy, and reflecting it too precisely would almost certainly result in messy filmmaking. Movie Fact Often More Engaging Than Fiction
Feeling absolutely shattered we returned to our messy, near empty house lamenting the lack of soft furnishings to comfort our aching posteriors.
It's still alive in the messy hair and dirty jeans of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
Her eyes are watery with tears, her hair messy and loose.

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