How to Use "Mess" with Example Sentences

mess (n): an unorganized or unclean condition

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Used with verbs:

"Please clean up this mess."
(clean up, wipe up, clear up, tidy up, deal with)

"You leave a mess wherever you go."
(leave, make, cause, create)

"We need to sort out this mess."
(sort out, resolve, straighten out, fix, repair)

Used with adjectives:

"You have made a complete mess."
(complete, total, real, big, huge, giant)

"You created this entire mess!"
(entire, whole)

"The country is in a financial mess."
(financial, economic)

"She is an emotional mess."
(emotional)

Used with prepositions:

"He lives in a giant mess."
(in)

"We found it under the mess of papers."
(of)