“It’s what I’m known for. Why mess with my image?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“This is so messed up,” said Jack, rubbing his hand over his face. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of showers, you are a total mess.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Nothing can get through it without getting messed up,” Lobel answered. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not in the mood for his mess. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

And I was pretty messed up by the whole thing, but doing my best to be strong and brave and big, and all the other things I ain't really feel like being at the time. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Tonight folks waren’t interested in nothing but straightening out my mess. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There was a note of badly suppressed glee in Ron’s voice; Harry could tell he was nothing short of thrilled that McLaggen had messed up so badly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I spilled the fireplace ashes on the kitchen floor, then kicked over the bucket of wash water I brought in to clean up the mess. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nok watched as the people standing nearby came to help clean up the mess. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Sure, kid,” the baker replied, surveying the mess around him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I mean with them cutting off welfare, a lot of these shorties are going to be even more messed up. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadow crow messed with my hood, and I rubbed his beak before climbing aboard. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Dinner’s at seven-thirty. Just follow your cabin to the mess hall.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I tried joining in, to forget about my terrible, awful, absurd idea, but when I sang, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” my voice splintered in my throat and came out a garbled, high-pitched mess. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I knew it was messed up here, but it feels so much more obvious now.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

McWatt was deeply impressed with Milo, who, to the amusement of Corporal Snark, his mess sergeant, was already buying eggs for seven cents apiece and selling them for five cents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The day before Yossarian met the chaplain, a stove exploded in the mess hall and set fire to one side of the kitchen. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know what a philosopher did for sure, but her laughing messed me up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, for once, I kept quiet and didn’t mess things up. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Dad lifts his chin—his Don’t mess with me look. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

After the dinner rush, the entire kitchen is a mess, like there was some kind of take-no-prisoners food fights. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I hesitate only for a second before leaving the paint-smeared world of white walls and entering the dark mess of lines. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Kill him. Show me you don’t mind making a mess. Show me that at least you know how to land a killing blow on such a pathetic target as this.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I look at the cut cane lying around, and I bend over, untangle a mess of it. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was pretty messed up, and he was crying hard. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I guess it’s too late anyway. But let’s work out a plan for taking care of her. So she won’t be messed over.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I figured he wasn’t really serious, he was just messing with me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t long before we was working on a mess of eggs, grits, and biscuits. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a split second, I make a calculation of how this ice structure might topple if I mess with it right now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knew when one of the black guys was being messed with. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is a tangled mess, and both of her eyes are blackened and swollen shut. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Not like last time. And a chicken, tell them, not a hen. Tell them who it’s for and then they won’t mess around.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you’re going to save the world, I’m the best person to keep you from messing up.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Mm-hmm. Don’t look like it to me. She probably don’t cook, do she? These young mothers live in drive-thrus. Probably giving you hamburgers every night. A mess!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“But your mothers are expecting you to be with us, and I don’t want to mess up any plans they might have.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

In a minute all that was left of the man was a frayed mess of veins and entrails hanging from the monster's mouth. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody else in the class liked him talking to Joe, too, because he wouldn’t mess with us. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

On the subway ride home, it hits me: I really, truly, irrevocably messed up. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I felt horrible for getting us into such a mess, and I was furious at myself for letting her come along. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Miss Carol told me to go get the janitor and tell him the principal wants him to clean up the mess in the boys’ room. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I asked, waving my hands at the flour mess. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I try to pause and wipe the mess away, but there’s too much of it. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had simply landed on an answer and run headlong into whatever mess awaited her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Enough chickens to lay fresh eggs for every officer in the squadron at five cents apiece from the mess fund,” Milo answered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“No TV at all,” Diego said, a shy smile on his face that made me wonder if he was messing with us. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And why didn't I call her, which I did, but she was too messed up to remember to turn the phone on. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t happen like this. I can’t have messed it up this bad,” he mumbled. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And even though I thought it was messed up that his mother didn't say nothing to him when she was leaving, I think, in a weird way, Noodles was cool with it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I recognize the sandy mess of hair and round glasses. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They kept trying to mess with our food and pretend it wasn’t them. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to mess things up now. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The last thing on earth I wanted was a mess like this. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day she either worked hard at music or messed with kids. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was almost lunchtime, and the earliest arrivals were drifting into the headquarters mess halls, the enlisted men and officers separating into different dining halls on facing sides of the archaic rotunda. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The buildings were like castles in pictures and we who had cleaned up everybody’s mess since the beginning knew better than anybody how to keep them nice. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only mess worse than the damage made in the kitchen was the so-called food Dad served us. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about her, whether she was close or not, could mess up a whole morning’s work. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I tried to do the monologue by memory, I only messed up three times. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He made his way around the mess hall one more time, because all the campers wanted him at their table. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Even if I did like him, I wouldn’t have talked to him. That would’ve been messed up. But you and Julia wouldn’t even let me say anything.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“You have to be messing with me. That’s not a thing.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After we shovel what seems like a cubic ton of manure out the door, I pause, surveying the remaining mess. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A relatively large number of officers—eight to a dozen—were assigned to each meal because of the prison mess hall’s well-known reputation as a place where in-mates can “go off.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The useless assertion that she "tried"? What am I to do with this mess of tears and rouge at my feet? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m messing with you,” he finally said, draining his beer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“What a mess,” said Tucker Mouse, looking at the soggy, smoldering piles of papers and magazines. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows he messed up—just can’t figure out exactly what went wrong with which girl. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You know, it’s my fault you’re not already pretty. I messed up everything by running away. I owe you.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

"You don't want to mess with the Caveman," he warned. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t dream of messing with your system, Mom.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Only an idiot brings a gun into a mess like that,” Shawn said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Everything is such a mess, and I can’t wait to graduate, but I still feel this twinge of nostalgia for my time at Batavia High School as it draws to a close. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I come to with Miss Lumley’s face looming inches away from me, scowling more than ever, as if I’ve made a mess, with a ring of girls around her jostling for a better look. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The front of his car was a mess. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I ask Darius as he stands across the room messing with his phone. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“That Crown who messed with us at Jimmy’s,” I bite out. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I went back to my seat, knowing I’d made an irrecoverable mess of things. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

These are my genes, this is my mess. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Up ahead you could pull over, Daddy. He might mess up the seat.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I messed with it to make it untraceable. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He is already hovering over Richard and James, showing them how to scoop up a handful of sand with a rag and use it to scrub out the mess pots. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They had their parents, who were even more messed up and confused than the kids were. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She exuded Don’t mess with me, her face stern and staring straight ahead. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

People on pay phones and the smell of burnt halal meat and dog mess. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“What I wanna know is what you ’bout to do with that mess?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Annabeth had a bronze knife that she reserved just for monsters and people who messed with her stuff. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

After the shock of rope and teeth, I admit it, I was a bit messed—madmanning it around the house, reeling from room to room, brain gyroscoping inside my cranium. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She had to search through the mess to find her things, and when she stood up to leave, Clara was standing in the doorway. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brings me lemon balm tea to settle my nerves and starts cleaning up the mess, breathing hard with effort and fear, muttering about how she knew it, that thieves are lurking around every comer. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe 1 will if he messes with my field,” Joe snarled. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If an in-mate misbehaves in the mess hall, every newjack learns, you don’t take him to task in the mess hall itself: That could inflame his friends and start a riot. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad ripped a bunch of paper towels from the roll, cleaned up Penny’s mess, and wiped her nose with a wet paper towel. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Queenie fried a chicken and cooked up a mess of vegetables for dinner that day, but I don’t think Papa knew what he was eating. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The parrot hops down to the desk, kicks around some of the mess, and when he finds no pen, he gnaws off a blue-green feather from his back. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A filthy man, his hair a mess and his clothes tattered. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It’s a chaotic mess as new sixth graders try to figure out where to go and seventh and eighth graders push each other around. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the mess hall they had Vietnamese doing KP. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not eligible for officer training, which was as well, for sooner or later he would have met someone in an officers' mess who knew about his past. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They're being careful, not trashing the place, not making a mess. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he vomits all over the expensive carpet and falls in the mess. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Z opened the glove compartment and fished through the mess of papers inside. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could stay as warm as a bug if I didn’t get wet, so I looked at the drab mess in the sky, whistled for Frightful, and started back to the tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead it was some mess about medical stuff. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Unable to stop, a victim of his own momentum, he fell into the roiling mess. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I just...I feel so messed up right now. I wish my life were simple like everyone else’s. Do you think...” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Near the mess hall, about two dozen Smokies were making a stand, holding off a handful of Specials with axes and makeshift dubs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The setting sun played hide-and-seek with some purple clouds stretched out along the Jersey City skyline, and a warm summer breeze swooshed in through the open Cadillac windows and made a mess of her hair. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I frown at the mess of long brown hair and try to smooth it down, running my fingers through it over and over. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She listed all the ways I had messed up, starting with the way I had left school and had barely kept in touch. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Archie. You’re the brains of the outfit. And you also got us into this mess. Where do we go from here?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His legs hurt but seem to be in working order, though his shoulder feels badly bruised and the palms of his hands are a mess of scrapes and dirt and powder. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Keep your eyes open and don’t mess with the women folks,’’ Sergeant Simpson said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So everybody says I’m wrong, okay? I didn’t do this, and I didn’t do that. I messed up a test. I forgot my homework.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Sneaky, don’t play with me!” she says, holding a hand in front of her nose, like he smells so bad it might mess up her face. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

In the months before the riot the bells rang often at our mess hall, sending out the calls for public meetings. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, definitely what Arwin said. But it also means that I need every one of you to give this your best effort. If you mess up, just keep going,” she says, looking straight at me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Ever come home and found your room messed up? The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“As a literary arts major, I can assure that’s just a mess. You basically said that you won’t say you told me so.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Tristran did indeed get to eat at the captain's table, although there was in fact no other table in the mess. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Henry’s whole body shuddered, and a hot mess lay across her palm and between her fingers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a frightful mess you have made!” she said sternly to the boys. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He grabbed me by the arm, dragged me into the mess tent and served up a mug of steaming tea and a plate of biscuits. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s kinda messed up that I’m enjoying this. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But we keep messing up, either because we stumble over the words or start cracking up. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But I actually want to go to school—I know, I know, that’s just messed up! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Then his sisters and their mess of kids showed up and piled into the kitchen. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Honestly, it went a lot better than I expected. I know a lot of people don’t mess with me because I’m—” He gestures to his size. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Please, Lissa” I begged, “put those things away. Your father will see the mess and know someone’s been in here.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The bears seemed not to see the mess, however, and they led the way in through the huge arch, over the icy ground that was filthy with the spatter of the birds. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I think what’s really messed up is the way everything changes all quick from one year to the next. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I tole you—” “Hilly’s going to be here in five minutes and she’s messed up everything.” she screech. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her eyes, smudging her face with red from the mess on her hands. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Will the mess look worse than what was in the Hells Angel’s bucket?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Mental note: Do not mess with her driveway,” Matthew said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I sketch an oval, fat and compact, add black eyes, tiny rounded ears, tucked-under feet, and a mess of every-which- way hair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he paused first, and he wouldn’t look at me, so I thought he was messing with me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I messed up my combination twice before finally opening the door. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“So them Dillard Early boys are all a little touched in the head, seems. Sooner or later. About the time they decide to mess with serpents.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Plus, I don’t know what Mr. Tanner’s gonna feel about all this mess. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She admits that it’s because everything but the eggs comes premade, so it’s hard for her to mess it up. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Did nobody else care that there was mess all over the yard? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t mess up the portrait,” she said, handing him the box cutters. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If only the whole stinking mess were over! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I was sent overseas as a pilot, and I should be flying more combat missions and spending less time on my duties as a mess officer.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But Mom also gets like that for not-so-nice stuff, like when a waiter messes up a food order. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Happily, it’s a big chaotic mess, and I can just shuffle in with everyone else. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d seen Psycho Mong mess with almost every kid in the Lighthouse, heard stories about him breaking residents’ arms and all that, but I’d never seen dude go after an adult. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“But still a priest. I try to make the mess like the old days. I want to make Federico happy. To hell with you, priest!” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The clouds thickened to the point where the sky grew black, and we lighted oil lamps inside the mess tent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day shift, an escort officer usually spent about half his day supervising in the mess hall, during breakfast and lunch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sets it on the tabletop and rips the lid off, revealing a mess of fun-sized chocolates and heart-shaped lollipops and red-and-pink wrappers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You tell me the good Lord’s in charge of this mess and I’ll scream.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Already the work area was a mess of tangled wires and pulsating fiber optics. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The woman stood eye to eye with Clayton, but he could see she was no one to mess with. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It makes my arm ache and a mess on the floor, but the table is still usable, if propped just right against the wall, and now there’s wood in the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about me. Just make sure you get through your junior year. And stop messing with Bad Leg. And don’t go around asking about that white girl. Please.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She recognized and acknowledged our huge mess, and that our feelings—despite our being just fifth graders—were very real. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“Whatever! It’s because the cops came and messed my whole groove up,” Carlos shot back. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I guess it happens every year, but it always hits me how messed up the season is. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

A sign on the wall said clean up your own mess. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If one of these planes is shot down," he said, "this thing is going to be on my head. I'm going to catch hell. The whole world will be in a mess." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was a wired-up mess by the time Mom came back to live with me and Grandma. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was surprised, but he went on through and was even more astonished to see that the alcove doors were open as well and that there was a terrible mess in the front office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“What if she tells Mama and they figure out that we made the mess?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Ask Hannah for some nice little mess, and take it round, Beth, the air will do you good,” said Jo, adding apologetically, “I’d go but I want to finish my writing.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With that synthetic mess on her head. Wig looking like roadkill.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the weather is all messed up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then I ball that mess up and throw it in the trash can. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

One day, the two of them made a huge mess of the Talbots’ kitchen baking cookies. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had tried to sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And remember, don’t come out until he’s got her in the light—we’ve one shot at this, we don’t want to mess it up. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Lina tried to keep the cans in alphabetical order so she could find what she wanted quickly, but Granny always messed them up. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Aaron, who started this whole mess, finally decided to step in and fix it. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He capped the whole talk off by saying, “If we was back home, I’d have you cat-hauled if you mess this up.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

One of the biggest was the standardization of the field, which, at that point, was a bit of a mess. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And somehow, I have an ominous feeling that his endgame involves much more than just messing up some Warcross tournaments. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the back of my mind, I knew Mr. D was not somebody to mess with. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The next morning, at six A.M., they slogged through mud to the transit camp mess hall and ate canned figs and white bread from pie tins and drank coffee out of tin cups. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m not dumb enough to mess up Aunt ’Chelle’s sofa like that. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

What I didn’t want to think about was Ice messing with no crack. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

"We wouldn't be in this mess if you'd looked after the garden." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It would be hard to find anything in that mess. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And the evangelist said, “Young man, God isn’t somebody to mess around with. Sit down, or else He’ll have to take care of your insolence on Judgment Day.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inside of the boat was still a frightful mess, with garbage and dampness all around. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick it up and throw it back at them, watch the unidentifiable mush splash against the bars, messing the clean pressed uniform cloth and white ruddy cheeks. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who cares? This whole thing is a mess anyway.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The fool was so excited, I thought he was going to mess around and break a leg before we even got to the party. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And then the moving men make a huge mess, dumping everything all over the place. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She hurried into the house, and Eleanor hid her face in her hands, trying not to mess anything up. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Last time, the canvas collapsed and made a mess of everything. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day when I got home from work, our apartment was still a mess. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I just can’t sit here and watch while those mess halls let my syndicate die.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s fine ... I just didn’t want you to go getting yourself messed up.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mopped the floor once the papers, letter blocks, and mess had been cleared away. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My tray is a mess from the food spraying out. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I try to keep my thoughts on Eden, on the money I need to collect before it's too late, but I start thinking up new ways to mess with the Republic's war campaign instead. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The gutters of the city overflowed with offal and refuse—but the mess found its place in time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was a little mean, but he didn’t like her messing with Boots that way. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If there was to be any chance of sorting out this mess before sunrise, speed was of the essence. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But I knew precious few would join 'em until that mess was hauled away. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain was a mess, what with trying not to flinch whenever Ben brushed against me. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He had messed up his cartilage so bad that they had to operate. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t be in this mess, but then he wouldn’t get to go bobcat hunting with his dad either. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are still heavy, her hair a kinky mess. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t spread that mess around here,” Big Ma said. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Rhetoric itself is, in many ways, a bit of a mess. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“If I don’t do my routine...if I don’t sit-stand 3 times, or I don’t tap my toe 3 times when I stop walking, stuff messes with my head.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lucy keeps calling out names, but we’re dropping so fast now that it becomes a garbled mess. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Climbing into that trash barrel made me look like a mess. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“We were cooking purloined steaks and lobster we stole from the officer’s club and the mess hall,” said Kelley. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

That didn’t sound very heroic to Aru, It just sounded like an epic mess that required an epic cleanup. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“That’s messed up,” Todd said to me as I turned around. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say nothing to mess up her mood. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And by the time I walk into social studies, I’m a mess. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Another time he was more successful, tripping Alex up in the mess hall and sending him flying, along with his tray, cutlery, and steaming plate of stew. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The table was lower, the fireplace smaller, and the place was a mess. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to mess up the quest, but she remembered how horrible her life had been when she and her mother had moved to Alaska—no roads. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’m probably messing up our whole privacy system because I’m teaching Mama to read. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly little stuff, like messing with his locker or his clothes or his books. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I can’t have him messing this up with his wobbly leg. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“These children need help. Or do you think this whole mess is going to clear up by itself, Signor...?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, soldiers were making a mess of the house. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I turn over and promise God that if he gets me out of this mess I will never do anything like this again. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was snowing when we arrived—Enrique kept complaining that the snow was going to mess up his beloved Adidas sneakers—and everything was so colorless and barren that it looked like the moon. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His long, white hair hung from his face in a stringy disheveled mess along the sides of his lean, angular face. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It messed her up for a few days, and she had to give herself the hard-line lectures all over again. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

No, it went beyond that—he didn't notice anyone was messing with him! Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

They were individually very pushy, almost cocky or snappy birds, seemingly quick to anger and push others around, much as the behavior they would use to keep someone from messing with their nest. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There is a Merrimack Gazette spread open to cover the top of her desk so she won’t get mess on it. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I saw the delicate, pink-mottled claw meat poking seductively through its blanket of mayonnaise and the bland yellow pear cup with its rim of alligator-green cradling the whole mess. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was trying real hard not to think of how I messed up. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She’d brought in a mess of fish and descaled them, rinsing them with freshwater and placing them in a barrel for smoking. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And my sister yelled at my cousin Mike for rolling down the window while he was driving and messing up her hair. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got a boy! Easy,” he said, for Adam had seen the mess in the bed and a green was rising in his face. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had warned that she would knock open the head of anyone who messed with her land. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He tried talking to me at school this morning, but I pushed him away because he’s the reason I’m in this mess in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

At the meeting, when Papa stood up to defend the YES YES position, murmurs of “Inu, inu” began to circulate around the mess hall. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to protect her, keep her safe from all the mess around us. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It was he who started all t his messing about with Magic.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe I’m messing up my chance to find my parents. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I did after a while, not to ‘mess’ but to learn of Hannah how things should be done, that my servants need not laugh at me. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole cabin broke into applause, and Mom messed up my hair with her hand. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at me for a second, possibly trying to gauge whether I was messing with her. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m just messed up. My brain makes the wrong chemicals.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

At first, Annie was messing around and tried to make a case that I was on the Pine Mountain swim team, so she told Doc Mom to look in the Speedo section. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And they would have, if you’d been wearing them. But you gave them to the satyr, which wasn’t part of the plan. Grover messes up everything he touches. He even confused the curse.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, I'm out there messing around and that's when I see the moving van. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I'm like a giant mess of problems, all linked together and tracing back to my childhood. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You mean who might get canned from the show if he keeps messing up?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Vivi isn’t the only faerie from our islands to sneak across the sea and into the human world with some regularity, although most don mortal guises to mess with people. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The last thing I wanted was to do anything to mess up my chances with them. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She looks at the mess of the kitchen. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Maybe he could see if the Mustang was out there and if Frankie was trapped in this mess with him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I left the geese’s mess where Sass would step into it. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know whether I should look in there because he had told me before not to mess with anything in his room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mess and more complicated than anything she’d worked on before. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

What a fine mess I have made of it with my foolish talk! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just do. You’re my mom and I do. Anyway, you love me and I’m messed up in the head for life.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

—Yeah, if I remember, you even got in the water and let your hairdo get all messed up. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I sneak into the mess hall through the back and eat in the kitchen. Milo gives me sandwiches and milk.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know for sure who messed it up,” I tell him. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you should give your hot mess another chance to explain himself?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Bunch of stupid girls messing with me all the time. I couldn’t throw a solid punch, but I could sure swing my arms like the Tasmanian devil.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But in the mess hall that evening it was clear that an accommodation had been reached. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garbage bags are now in the bedroom and I dig through one of them, trying not to let stuff fall out and make a mess on the floor. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I was becoming more outward and social, more willing to open myself up to the messes of the wider world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The morning after the Augur’s visit, I stumble to the mess hall like a Cadet suffering his first hangover, cursing the overly bright sun. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baransky beams at us, waving goodbye as she reassures Mom—once again—that the house isn’t a mess, the pillows aren’t a big deal, don’t worry so much. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The hours tangle together, a mess of night sweats and medicine and not being able to keep anything in my stomach. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t know we were here when he came to the library. He only went for the camera after he saw us. Remember? We were hiding. He came here to mess with Father Time.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The mess hall ran smoothly in Milo’s absence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And when Mr. Larson squinted and rubbed his hands together and said, “It’s like we get to mess around in our own private democracy laboratory!” even Cara had to smile. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Robin is small, but you don’t want to mess with her. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t zing him like I wanted to—and trust me, I really wanted to—only because, well, we were both messed up, hurting, and it would’ve just been a wack thing to do. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“See, when you mess something up,” I muse, “you learn for the next time. It’s when people compliment you that you’re in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Your father has the same problem. He can eat anything. Seems like his gut is made of steel when it comes to food. But when he gets nervous, he’s a mess.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She just smiles a fake smile and messes with her iced latte or whatever she's drinking. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His shirt was covered in blood, his dark hair a wild mess. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Look, we don't want to mess anything up for you. We just want to let you know we're around." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I wish you’d quit doing that—messing with me,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I think they might be messing with our pretty. What do you think we should do, Miss Texas?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In adolescence Gabe was gangly and tall, and as she watched, his elbow knocked over the mug holding his drink; the other boys chorded as he sheepishly mopped up the mess with his napkin. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was dark, and I was afraid she’d already gone home for the night, so as soon as I could, I took off running for the mess hall. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sapo always taped them up really nice and tight, because that way he’d know if someone messed around with his stuff. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He looked over toward our drill instructor, who was walking through the mess hall, and his voice grew low and confidential. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandson’s in a gang, so you don’t want to mess with him. He’s meaner than he looks.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now eat a few more bites of the delicacy I brought you from the mess cabinet.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“My shape-shifting doesn’t work. I don’t know why. Maybe they cursed me, or maybe I’m too messed up to focus.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I don't want to get anywhere near that mess. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were all standing now, and as Cecilia leaned toward Marshall’s lighter, Leon said, “He’s got a first-rate mind, so I don’t know what the hell he’s doing, messing about in the flower beds.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I shook my head, looked at the mess all around us. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“This is all so messed up. Totally messed up.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I looked like, but the two of them were a mess. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was her first trip to the Academy; the time she had upset Fin by leaving the workshop a mess; the warm saltiness of the sea on a summer day. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

June yanked the spatula from my fingers, scraped up the mess, and dropped it into the trash. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three folders had gotten pretty messed up in my bag, all folded over and crushed by clothes and some of the food we’d swiped. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Why are you going to spend two hundred dollars if you’re so messed around about the marriage?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, no—I might as well be kidnapped myself, like those kids in Arizona who started this whole mess.... The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The fight was all messed up now, and people started dispersing into the rest of the park. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

So Hazel flung herself into the thin layer of icy slushy watery mess and rolled around in it, numbing her skin until she was part ice cube herself. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t mess with us if I were you, counselor. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

If she messed up, all of Brooklyn would see it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A beanbag Medusa sat by the faucet like she was guarding the mess. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I asked as she cleaned away the mess. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How are customers supposed to get to La Cocina with this mess in the way?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say something, to yell that I was sorry, that I thought R.C. was evil and messed up, but they were too far to hear by then. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was like when you lift a rock or a log in the forest and see the ground alive with a writhing mess of bugs and worms. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who did she think she was, messing things up? Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

In his wheelchair, in front of the grave, Pop talks to my mom and says he’s sorry over and over again, cries a lot, and is a guilty mess. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the kind of girl nobody messed with. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s a mess, matted hair—more black than brown—big paws, but its body is still small. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Another new inmate arrived on W and rightly observed that his cell was a mess. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm sweating under my dress, which is still a mess from last night, and I know that Katherine must be suffering as well, especially since she’s wearing at least three petticoats. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He also hated swearing, and other players in the locker room figured it was better to abide by his wishes rather than run the risk of messing with him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few are a mess—dirty and stinky. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bailey turns to find Caroline standing in the doorway in her nightgown, her hair piled on her head in a spiky mess of pin curls and a knitted blanket pulled around her shoulders. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sweetheart, you haven't messed up anything. You are perfect, so perfect, do you know that? I remember when you were born. The moment I saw you, that was my first thought: she’s perfect.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"I promise not to mess anything up for you." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t pull out your hair and I won’t have to mess with it,” she said. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I pick up a stick and mess with the burning logs. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“And you have my same spirit, Ibtihaj. You just keep moving forward and don’t take any mess from anyone who tries to tell you different.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

So I told myself I would not mess with things in his room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably twelve or thirteen and only saw Vonetta and Janice as pests he could both mess with and keep at a distance. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes a further mess of his waistcoat and silk shirt as he carries it into the house. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you jack up your hair, you really will look a mess,” she says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

"If he messes up in school, one time, he's off the team." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed for two weeks straight, ignoring my AffloVest and my regimen, and when I got up, it wasn’t just my lungs that were a mess. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And of course, I'm a hot mess for the rest of the day. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She knows how much it messed us up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I knuckled him in the rib to show him I was from Brooklyn and didn’t take any mess from a country boy, older cousin or not. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, you’re twelve. That’s old enough to know your own self, I expect. I’m not about to go messing with that. So all right.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After one shocked stare, the family downed the mess in a silence that made Kit writhe. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They spent another half an hour cleaning up all the mess, hanging up shirts and dresses, and refolding pants, and then they went down to make dinner together. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In the morning, in the mess tent, I asked Lieutenant Carroll why he had called Jenkins an angel warrior. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because then look at us: we’d both be sitting in the greenhouse, making a mess, and who would clean it up? The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the midst of a long silence, Will asked our mess whether; if we win, the slaves down in the Sugar Isles going be freed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“If I say something, it’s going to look like I’m jealous and messing with them.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally got a light and looked about me, I was dismayed to see what a mess my guests had made of my tree house. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re filthy, barefoot, their skin caked in dirt, their hair a wild mess. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a mess: washing up piled on the counter and in the sink, empty takeaway cartons spilling out of the bin. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t going around telling people I’d mess them up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He could dig holes, and he had a real gift for bringing water for them both in cans and canteens from the tanks near the mess hall. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t a threatening or intimidating “messing with”—it was always meant to show that we could take a joke, and joke back, too. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The boys lining the path to Newt and the girl glared at him as he walked past, as if he were responsible for the entire mess of the Maze and the Glade and the Grievers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Then again, if you were gay, I would never date you. You’re a mess.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

They’d shucked off their hats and messed up each other’s hair and were thrashing around, engaged in a sisterly tickle fight. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“No one messes with Big Mary Anne. It’s suicide. Because there’s nobody in the world that fights as dirty.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t mess with boy cousins, and don’t have babies until you’re grown.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Dad says, "I don't want you getting tangled up in this Tariq mess." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His crews spared the landing strip and the mess halls so that they could land safely when their work was done and enjoy a hot snack before retiring. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“And here I am getting you out of this mess.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Peewee’s grin just about filled the mess tent. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me in his sergeant's voice that I had to go over to the Skins Team and I had better not try to mess up his platoons again, no sirree, buster. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I just feel a little sick. With the pageant coming up this Saturday, I don’t want to be all messed up for it. Can’t I just take some medicine and rest?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That mess is a distraction of the worst kind,” he says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

If I went home, my parents would see that I had become an emotional mess. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was a bloody, brain-splattered mess of a killing, a spectacle that sickened and frightened Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

So I guess we weren't the first to mess with him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Over there in the woods where nobody would come and mess it up.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Vivi, there’s no way my deciding to mess up my life is your fault,” I tell her. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jinny jumped to her feet before she could make a bigger mess and ran next door to the store cabin, where she pulled off her stained pants and tunic. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They knew better than to mess up the game. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I’m going to tell you about the crazy mess I got myself into a couple days ago. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s all me. I’m the one that’s messed, not you.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Donna is at the dresser mirror, messing with her hair. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“This is a fine mess,” Papa finally said. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Inmates were always messing with their toilets, and early on I tried to find out what they might have done to cause the problem. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my ice-cream cone is a big, drippy mess. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Chess was torn between wanting to smooth her hair down himself and wanting to snarl at Natalie, Don't you dare say anything about Emma’s hair being a mess! The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You must have started early at the mess.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The second had a problem with his plumbing, and Mrs. Reynolds was not amused by the snickers in the audience or the mess on stage. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

My hair tumbles down in a tangled mess. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then I set about cleaning up the mess. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At my tenth Luke hogged my candles and messed up my cake. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to say it like that. It’s messed up that it happened to you, and that your mom—” He pauses, shaking his head again. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The man in the hole was now a mangled mess of blood and shredded rags. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted this school year to be perfect. I wanted to make friends and not feel awful about myself. And I’ve already messed that up.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother warned her, “Don’t mess with that boy, his eyes green, his army suit green, and his car green. You can’t trust him.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her studio was a mess, frightening in its chaos, but after the first few steps I forgot about all that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And I don’t think I messed up the ground too bad pushing it. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The mess there felt disordered, for sure, but it also felt different—comfortable almost. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The room was a mess: the rocking chair where Miss Wren had sat all night with Miss Peregrine was toppled on its side, the table of vials and beakers pushed roughly against the wall. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Harry, who had expected something much more exciting, saw a mess of small, everyday objects: a yo-yo, a silver thimble, and a tarnished mouth organ among them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The only thing about my buddy that wasn’t completely messed was his shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Even so, I made one heck of a mess spilling flour all over the place, including on Tilly, because she was right under my feet the whole time. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I think messing up will bother me less than it used to. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It took me a very long time, but I typed, “They think my brain is messed up like the rest of me.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It had been almost a year since the welfare man had scared us into cleaning the house, and it was once again an unholy mess. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t fix my mess of a family, but I could try to make things right with Bertha. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Hillsdale was upon her before she knew it, a tangled, disorderly mess of dirty houses and crooked streets. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What kinda mess is that? Did you make her walk?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then my uncle was untangling me from the mess of screaming boy and spinning wheels. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She waits for us at the doorway, a smile soft like it’ll go away if we mess up. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to tell. Angel cries a lot too, but I don’t know how much of that is teenage girl stuff and how much is because Monique is all messed up.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Less us just this one day. Please, Father. I feels like I going to really bust loose. Besides, I don’t want you messing around in the streets by yourself.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Her looks have been a mess lately. Can't you see her eyes and nose? They've always been a problem. Her natural template is flawed." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Their room was a pitiful mess of clothes, wet towels, orange peel, torn-up pieces of a comic arranged around a sheet of paper, upended chairs partly covered by blankets and the mattresses at a slew. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She’s nothing but collateral damage in this whole mess, and it makes me feel some kind of way. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin often threatened to suck him—and the mess he deposited—up the vacuum cleaner. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an appeal to an over-ripe guava threatening to fall from its tree and make a mess on the ground. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had already asked him where people could get married without a whole lot of mess and waiting. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joey led the way along the trail by the lake to the mess hall, and then we turned up the path that cut between the dorms. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once I got on the ground I figured I was gonna stay on the ground until the mess was over with. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rex, it’s been forever! How are you? Oh lord, please pardon my appearance, I’m a mess!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“From now on,” Major Major said to Milo Minderbinder, “I’m not going to come to the mess hall any more. I’ll have all my meals brought to me in my trailer.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Servants duck and dart around her, trying to sweep up her mess. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Bingo, the fight’s over because neither of those two girls wanted to mess with Peaches without a blade and they weren’t on their turf anyway. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a mess with a black eye and a split lip. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But Thomas rolled over and refused to say another word, worried he’d mess up this new sense of being encouraged, eradicate the reassuring calm that filled his heart. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Tally definitely didn’t want to get caught messing around with fire alarms, in case the wardens connected her to a certain incident in New Pretty Town back at the beginning of summer. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But she practiced her writing at night—she didn’t want her family to know how she messed up. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m serious. You should have seen her. She was a mess.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“You should check out these Snow Whites on the tube, man. They each got two boyfriends and they messing with both of them.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s really cool how you messed everything up, then tried to run back to your time.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

So it’s always a bunch of mess going on. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean to be such a mess,” I say, my voice cracking. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We thanked heaven that Chairman Mao had started this Cultural Revolution, and that the Central Committee of the Communist Party had uncovered the mess in our schools. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magnificent mess of curly hair, the gleaming amber eyes, the silver nose hoop, the perfectly proportioned—and super-soft—lips... Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

His dad was messing with the plumbing under the sink, replacing the garbage disposal. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“We got to show them that we can be peaceful if they peaceful with us, or we can mess them up,” Sergeant Simpson said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re a mess!” she said, pointing to the hives now covering her face. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Save the hugs and the tears for later, sir. We don’t want Vanessa to mess up her dress.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

If anyone in a session messed up—was late or sloppy or disobeyed any order—the rest of the session would pay. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a computer station near the back and started making notes listing how I’d messed up. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. This whole mess is Alan’s fault. Me, being petrified, having to go to court not once but twice.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“If the tiniest thing goes down in the mess hall in Attica?” he said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He collapsed in a clatter of falling rifle, of mess tins rattling in the dust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if she was that messed up from the changes in her body and in her career, she had other choices. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I might mess this up,” he says, clearing his throat as he pulls a sheet of paper from his pocket. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you could give us a reduced punishment as a warning. Then the full punishment if we mess up again.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He had tried to make sure inmates were more securely escorted from cell to mess hall and back. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Manifest Herald newspaper office was about centered on Main Street and we walked into a holy mess. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, it’s cool, man, nobody messes with me over there. I have the place on lock,” I started, unconvincingly. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As I pick through the mess of loose papers, snack bar wrappers, and composition notebooks, I glimpse my graded math test. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had pooped in her pants, and it was loose—a real mess. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on the bus it was us and it made me think that I was special because I was as messed up as everyone else. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jay was about to tell her head a mess until he noticed Mama was all smiles. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had seen too many men ruined, or at least tied down, or in some other way messed up by women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get into the trees and down and round the big mess of shrubs and she’s still sitting on the rock but at least she looks up as I run to her. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the daylight they were a mess, splashed up to their necks in mud, covered in burrs and tendrils. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He held out a mess of tangled sheets. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He could hoop, he could dance, and he could get down with his hands if anybody messed with us. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“They're kind of laid-back about body art. I mean, I'm salutatorian, so I guess they figured I can't be a complete mess if I'm getting straight A's.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wanted to find Liam and explain why I hadn’t been there, to tell him what had happened, but I knew I was a mess. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Everyone had on goggles, and the girls had spent the beginning of class complaining that the elastic straps were messing up their hair. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He opened his locker—the mess was gone. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need to watch any more of that mess,” she says. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Now, boy, you started making me uneasy. You can get out of this mess without no one really gettin’ too riled up and no one asking too many questions. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our session gathered the next morning in a classroom in the basement, near a lounge and the mess hall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I miss the noise of the mess,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But after he started teaching the men, he spent all his time at mess answering Johnny’s questions. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to end badly and mess everything up.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

If somebody starts messing with my game it’s like they’re getting into my head. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was my fault we were in this mess. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Stuart, after examining this mess, turned to his father again. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

There were a number of gloved assistants on hand to deal with the mess. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Please, Miss Celia, don’t do that mess on the table, it don’t come—” “Look, isn’t it the thing? And I’ve found two dresses to match it just exactly! ” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Your feet get messed up and you’re going to end up with a profile.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if I do, how will I steer clear of that unremarkable, plain-faced, dull-witted English guy who turned boycotting-me into a molten mess in a matter of minutes—and in a church! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I was thinking, This will teach you to mess with me, Miss Perfect. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Dad likes that, and I think he is afraid of doing anything that might mess up his status. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When at last we are up to our ears in death and garbage, we will look to Science to clean up our mess. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“See, the way you say it, all negative like that, makes it sound like I messed up.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Doha, your noona carried you all the way home on her back, both of you looking like bloody messes. Your halmoni almost fainted when she saw your back.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When we finally touch down, I’m an exhausted mess. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As they played, my classmates broke their necks to get the right definition, screamed out answers, and groaned when they messed up. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Once the entire mess is ready, Katherine and I eat it greedily, the past week of good eating not quite able to make up for the weeks of starvation. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I shouldn’t have messed around with magical creatures,” he finally admitted. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

That we have fun when we mess around at work? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Someone innocent of the mess on the sidewalk ahead. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Hammie and Asher are on the living room couches, engrossed in a quiet debate about how best to mess up the Cloud Knights’ defense. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was what had gotten her into this mess. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He had to fetch newspapers to sop up the mess, and then he had to rest with his back against the wall because his hands and feet hurt so much. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ones who maybe messed up once or twice, and now that’s how people think of them. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he was just afraid of messing everything up. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Bree rushes to help me clean off, but my gown is a wet mess. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, my head was a mess of tumbling worries: rising poverty, falling blood counts, alarming potential for quarantine. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he has never messed with another woman; because he selected that young girl to love, he thinks he is free. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t give me that mess. Don’t even. Y’all grown folks quick to say something like that. ‘ Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Khalid stopped messing with the tent eventually, and it became mine. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I decided to get a head start on cleaning my baking mess, something I usually left until after my treats were out of the oven, cooling. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Below, in the earth, the relics of our presence were no doubt still there, the canteens and bandoliers and mess kits. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘He messed up the scent back there, pinching that cast-off mail-shirt that he found, and paddling all round the place before I could get there.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Girl, nah. And mess up my outfit? You seem all right.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In any case, it’s not the cast’s best performance, but it’s not a total mess. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

While we are cleaning up the mess we made, Kira whispers to me, “For real, though, if you have questions about sex or anything Miss Prude Maxine won’t talk with you about, let me know.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But her insistence that I was imagining my symptoms messed with my head even more. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the Golden Dragon, Mom is still frowning at JB for messing up my hair. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The children should have returned exhilarated and with a deep and abiding love for the sea and he should have returned with a fine mess of fish. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We make a little parade, Justin in his bright green soccer uniform and knee socks, the barking black dog, me, and Elizabeth calling, “You don’t have to...the kitchen is a mess.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

His hair was a mess, and his eyes were red and droopy looking. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was still watching Lester’s wrap job, wondering what sort of pulpy mess lay beneath the layers. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But people like me, those of us who are so busy busy busy climbing our shaky ladders out of the old mess—we are the last to see it. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly—exceedingly slowly—the mess of wool in my hands began to take shape. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m ready if she messes up,” Molly whispers back. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It’s the only good thing to come out of this mess. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you use that money for my grandbabies and not some of the other mess you probably into,” Grandma says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“My lawyer is up there too. He’s a good guy. A real pit bull. He’ll make sure that no one messes with you, OK? ” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was messing with my house key and before long I had it in my mouth and I was playing a game. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the kitchen all a mess and I told her what had happened. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guests in the hallway shrieked and shoved at each other, trying to get away from the mess. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He painted a scenario: Chemical agents were released into a mess hall containing unruly inmates, and officers too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So if you want the call to be from a stranger, I’ll have to take the bus to Shadbush Crossing and mess up there.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

How in the hell did you end up in all this mess? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“It was just a mistake. She was a mess at Lucy’s funeral, and I got caught up in feeling sorry for her. But it was a terrible reason to go out with her.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Unless my imagination is messing with me, a slight flush colors his cheeks, too. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I messed everything up for you. I ruined everything.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs Wormwood said to him, "You should read the label on the tube before you start messing with dangerous products. Always follow the instructions on the label." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Just in time for supper,” declares the cook, and he begins to ladle pease porridge into the mess pots. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Look, I wasn’t born yesterday. Stop messing with me.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m a mess is what I am,” he says, holding on to the building for support. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid it’s a bit of a mess,” she said. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

If I do, I’ll mess up the bass line and ruin whatever is about to happen—because something is definitely about to happen. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Seagulls had been perching on the boom; there was a mess on the top of the cabin and the floor of the cockpit, and he stepped to the side to miss it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of a family, not sitting there all alone in a mess of a people. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bando unfolds his collapsible fishing rod, and I gather cattail tubers and catch a mess of frogs for dinner. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was what Joey Pow had done to some bad guys who tried to mess with us once. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camilla locked the door of the bathroom behind us and the two of us, on our hands and knees, began to rummage through the mess of prescription bottles under the sink. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My arms burn from swinging them, and even though I'm an absolute mess I feel particularly light. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My arms came up and crossed over my chest, and some mangled mess of anxiety and guilt rose up from deep in my guts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The same way I felt when people tried to mess with Ghost. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The opening in the tree wasn’t small, but it was screened on one side by a mess of brambles and on the other side by the second oak. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If he has a wife, his death will mess her up like it messed Jay up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When Momma hangs up, I say, “It wouldn’t kill me to miss one day of school. I don’t wanna be there if they try that protest mess again.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I should have been there and I wasn’t, and the way it happened probably messed you guys up.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“But I’ve got to make the mess halls feed it to the men.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Your mother is quite glamorous. I don't know why she lets you parade around court looking a mess. Maybe all the family spintria are spent on her." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t want to get messed up because of the knee. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could get a job an’ not have no mess.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He frowned and saw where he’d messed up: he was a daydreamer. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He’d been trying not to look beyond the ragged edge of the backyard to the bulldozed mess of branches, trunks, leaves, and mud that had once been his beloved woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, as we prepared to head to second mess, which was what they tellingly called lunch, I noticed the black man from the night before standing next to Colonel Batt. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Miss Celia, you mess up the hair coloring again? I helped you fix it last time, remember? We got it back real pretty.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I hate whoever messed with that stupid ice cream machine,” someone to my left grumbles. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A servant entered, frowning at the mess on the floor, and shouted for help. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

What a fine mess we had on our hands, with the hatch open and neither of us able to see. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I for sure don’t want to get dog-piled or just generally messed with. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

As if on cue, one of the lumps on the ground wriggled, scaring the mess out of me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I pull the blanket down, messing up our hair, and Max is on duty at the window, the chair leaning back on two legs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

While I’ve been messing with the weapons, Peeta’s been squatting on the ground, drawing something with the tip of his knife on a large, smooth leaf he brought from the jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

One August day in 1929, when it was so nightmarishly hot that the milk in the prison’s kitchen soured, a riot erupted in the mess hall. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You let this guy alone. Don’t you do no messing aroun’ with him. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it’s fine, I’m going to pitch my tent in Longmeadow, and row up the whole crew to lunch and croquet—have a fire, make messes, gypsy fashion, and all sorts of larks. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s kind of messed up to have a guy carrying a rifle as a mascot for a school, I said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I could have frozen the stupid disease that had slowly messed up Abuela’s lungs. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“And you could wear a Tech jersey to mess with them.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“If you need to use the bathroom, aim so you don’t make a mess, and wash your hands afterwards.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Wait! I wrote that before— wait—” It was a jing-bang of a mess. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“The barista drew a cat that you could’ve Instagrammed, but it got messed up.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The mess of blocks still all over the floor, because I hadn’t had the energy to deal with it since then. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And I'm probably the most messed up of all. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I went home, I logged into Facebook, and...it’s a mess,” said Kaisha. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The cat regarded him distantly, then stalked away, leaving the carcass; but to the terrier it was a disappointing mess of feathers only. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both my old and new laptops are on my desk, which is a mess. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It looked as though it might be a mess. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And I’d screamed in delight as he threw his arms around me and messed up my hair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I obeyed, and the gooey, reeking mess splattered all over my naked body. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after all the explanations, she still felt responsible for the whole mess, especially for what was happening to Mr. Larson. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

How would these people feel if they knew Milez was here to see how messed up we are to remind him how good he’s got it? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The boy could never mess with a fire without getting all dirty. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, even after admitting her role in today’s mess, Witching Hour seemed shamefaced. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he messed everything up by falling in love. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I was thirteen, and that morning I couldn't eat. The nerves made my stomach a mess. So when I marched into his office, I took one look at him and passed out." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe I had messed up so epically. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I knew this about Julia Bishop: She was a miracle—artistic, imaginative, and gifted—and she also liked to mess with me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I bet she wouldn’t want me in her house messing up their goodness with my hateful words. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“See why you don’t want to mess with me?” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“I can help, some of it’s my mess,” Harry told Ron, but Mrs. Weasley cut across him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Okay, okay. You were the one that wanted to mess with him, not me.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, he messed up our hair and went up to his room. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The point is, Doris don't play with her kids fooling around in all that street mess. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I was crouched and still upon the floor; not moving except to heave my breaths, which gargled in the mess I had coughed into the mask. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The moral of the story is that things are a mess in here. We effectively ‘lost’ almost two hundred thousand books when Tolem burned the Larkin ledgers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His hair is a mess, and his face is scruffy, covered in whiskers. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Because you know what’s really messed up? That you didn’t already know I wouldn’t do that to you. You should’ve known better.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Deborah gripped her cane and stared him in the eye with a look that just begged him to mess with her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But ever since I’d messed up our presentation, my mind still wasn’t cooperating. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There’s a breeze messing up her hair, and the bright winter sun’s making her crinkle up her eyes, so you’re not sure if she’s smiling at our antics, or just grimacing in the light. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel stomped her foot and stormed out of the mess hall. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Specials weren’t attacking the large group at the mess hall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And the thing is, I'm actually considering doubling down on the awkward factor and turning this mess into a coming out thing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I'll take the blame for messing up whatever she and Ainsley got going right now, as long as I can stop it. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Below the jagged line of bone was a spongy crimson mess of brain, several inches across, reaching from the crown almost to the tip of his ear. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she still wants us as pawns. Maybe she was just saying things to mess with your mind.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Boxes filled with fruit and vegetables had torn, and their contents had spilled and broken into slippery messes on the floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Still, I remind myself that today is special, and I won't let those new neighbors moving in mess that up. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Anybody or anything messes with me and they will get a face full of chemical nasty that will stick their eyes open for weeks.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

How do we get ourselves into messes like this one? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about my record? The other men are getting all the fame and medals and publicity. Why should I be penalized just because I’m doing such a good job as mess officer?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“If I touch it, that messes it up?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I can hardly remember now what it was all about, but I was a total mess then, having just split up with Salim’s dad and not yet having discovered Transcendental Meditation. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning before the wood pewees were up, I was smoking a mess of fish I had caught in the stream. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I figured if I left you, the other kids would stop messing with you.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

My life may be a mess right now, but some of these people have it worse. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When I ask him about it, he tells me he found it in a cupboard, with a whole mess of other things. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

‘But there were some stout fellows with him that are too good to lose. I knew you’d lead them into a mess. I’ve come to help them.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Did I not say no good would come of it? Now look into what mess your sons have led us.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember my fur was a matted mess. I was totally out of shape. Hadn’t herded anything for weeks. But Jenny saw my potential.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You don’t mess around like that. You just don’t fritter away all your luck.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still ironed their cotton slips and their dresses but they had to hang their clothes and polish their own shoes, and that was always a mess. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Escort officers spend a while in the mess hall and then get to leave the block for chunks of the day, taking groups of inmates to other buildings in the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to keep up with everything, and they keep messing up the stuff I like. Like Captain America or Miles Morales.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The words stream out of me in a jumbled mess. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Beetee is still messing around the tree, doing I don’t know what, taking measurements and such. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I licked the plate like a dog, and by the time I finished my mind was a mess and my legs were pumping. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My stars, this sure is a big mess, isn’t it?” she said, walking over the ruined land near the volcano. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, Lily stumbled into the kitchen in white jeans and a T-shirt, but her hair was a tangled mess. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I stand up, blotting at the mess on the front of my shirt. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She was as big a disaster as the mess in the pan, and all because she didn’t know what kind of cake she’d like. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“People can sort of mess everything up even when they’re trying to help.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My brothers would be messing with us all night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

‘What would we want to mess with your junk for?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And such a mess he’s made! Why, attend, you little wriggler…” and she picked the lumps of banana from his clothes and his hair. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I rolled my sleeping bag shakily, wondering how things had gotten so messed up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He looked like a mess and I didn’t know what to do. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It started when she said we couldn’t live like this with the torn books and papers and records all over the floor and the place in such a mess. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They continued past the kitchen quarters, which were a mess of shouting, clouds of flour, and surging fires. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It was obviously no big deal for her. And that makes me think you’ve been messing with me. That she’s given that talk before.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“For a while I thought I was doing okay, I thought I was sort of getting it. But then my life got so messed up, so messed up...” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I ate some more ribs, some fried chicken, and a mess of potato salad. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We should avoid talking at all costs. The vocal transformation component of the spell must’ve gotten messed up somehow,” said Seven sheepishly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When they saw that Monaco was okay, Lobel and Brunner walked him over to the mess tent to get some coffee. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About three hundred years ago, some Rusty figured a way to engineer the species to adapt to wider conditions. She messed with the genes to make them propagate more easily.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Since the mess with Lolo yesterday—and all the time it took to get Abuela calmed down—Mami’s been a little crabby and impatient, too. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The day had gone really well, and she didn’t want to say or hear anything that would mess that up. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Matter fact, how many of y’all been messed with by the cops?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A six-armed Earthborn and a Laistrygonian giant pummeled each other with rocks, though Percy wasn’t sure if they were fighting or just messing around. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We stuffed a pile of silver into the cabby's hand and dropped a couple of Kleenexes to cover the mess on the floor, and ran in through the lobby and on to the empty elevator. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

After all that had happened Grandma was going to clean the sink, clean up after me, another mess, and it was this moment that somehow made what she had told me take hold. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The night before I left the field hospital Rinaldi came in to see me with the major from our mess. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m really not messing with you. I needed to get away from there for a while, so they moved me out here to live with my aunt and uncle.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mama’s right that this closet had become a mess; some of these papers are years old. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even the high school kids in our neighborhood know better than to mess with Bennie. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You know you mess with my soul, don’t you?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘I am not talking to the pants. Meeting in the mess hall. We’re almost at Olympia.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Tyler starts talking about the trial and how messed up it will be if the jury gets it wrong, and even though I agree with him, I don’t tell him that. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The interior of some of the shacks were a mess, as if a tornado had hit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi held on to Felix, and soon all three boys were a mess of arms and legs, rolling around the parking lot. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Luke wanted Toby to live in the shame, the knowledge that he’d messed up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And to hear David talk about it, it's like it all happened because a long, long time ago people tried to mess with human nature and ended up making it worse. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We were so poor in all this mess. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam had admirers, and sat at mess hall tables like anyone else. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mess with big bodies of water like that.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I just think that things are really good right now? And maybe we shouldn’t mess with it?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, about a week ago. They at my cousin’s house. She live in like the middle of nowhere. Mom’s been a mess ’cause she didn’t know if I was okay. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She began by shoveling up all the soiled straw and wood shavings and depositing the stinky mess into Papa’s wooden wheelbarrow. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Nah, a couple of bullies tried to mess with me, but I’m tough and it's no big deal. But the food is really bad, Lucy.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

But I had never felt so messed up on the inside. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Annabeth hoped the Titan was just messing with her, though Bob’s face revealed nothing. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I mean, I basically don’t talk in class either, but it’s so hard to keep my face blank when people are trying to mess with me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They had peeled back the shirt and the arm was whitely soft where they had cleaned it and there was a mess around the shoulder. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s done, Hiram, and believe you me, nobody around here is going to bring up this ugly mess again. It’s over. Period.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A big mess, and T wasn't about that. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I know I messed up, but do I really deserve all of this? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was fine for 2,400 years as just Socrates without me conjuring him up to help me out of dumb messes like fake double dates with Jeff the leg jiggler. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I'd been so worried about Needles that I had forgotten that my hand was messed up! When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s no place for a colored man—especially now with this Parker mess.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t care if Momma made it, I’m not touching that mess. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Did he ever mess with you like that?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I refused to take the blame for Luke’s mess. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was the best thing to come out of the whole mess. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t deal with this now. All this nonsense, and the captain has abandoned ship and left a mess to boot.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was like, Yeah, I’m stronger than half of the boys in my class, so don't mess with me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Delacruz, in the meantime, graduated to his own cell, but it was way upstairs on U-and-Z, not on V. So we’d acknowledge each other in the mess hall or wherever else our paths would cross. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He braved a glance at Twig, who was still messing with his hair. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Two or three others monitored the metal detector and pat-frisked inmates as they passed through the short tunnel between the mess hall and the bridge. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was Donovan one of those guys who thinks a girl who wants a favor has to mess around with him? Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He messed up her hair again and walked away from her, Ghost moving silently beside him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He holds me with these bright eyes and grins at whoever’s holding the camera, with a mess of missing teeth. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

A mess of toys lay piled near the open chest. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The big kids were the ones who messed up everything. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Harry extracted his Cloak from his trunk with some difficulty, trying not to show Dumbledore the mess within. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I look at the mess of food crushed all over the kitchenette, crunched into dust on the linoleum. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He bent down, took up a double handful of lukewarm water and rubbed the mess from his face. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I helped Audrey clean the rest of the litter on the floor, wishing it were just as easy to wipe away the mess we were making of our friendship with Jenna. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I figured she was just depressed, thinking about Dad returning to jail and how he might never get his captain’s license and how our quiet3 seminormal life was a total mess again. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It messed with their sympathy, with the story in their head about people overcoming adversity to be shining lights in the world. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I mattered to you, and I messed that up. And I don’t know why I did what I did.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor hadn't consented to another full-on makeover, but Park's mom was always trying new eyeshadows on her or messing with her hair while she sat at the kitchen table with Park. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She used it when the dogs made a mess on the carpet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"What if Killer Kane hears I was messing with his kid? No thank you." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

But this was my best dress, and if it got too dirtied up, Mama would tell my head a mess. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But I do know that mess didn’t last two weeks. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all up there somewhere, making a mess of the world. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice held a little of the old doubt and awkwardness—the voice of her Frank, who always worried about being a klutz and messing up. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Crazy fool ... my floor, mess . . . look what you . . . work ... get on out . . . now that . . . crazy ... my floor, my floor ... my floor.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s all he says, Miles slinks back and quietly messes around with his phone, as if we weren’t just having a conversation. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I stayed as far from the mess—and the revolting food—as possible. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You’d fallen over in the street, you were crying, you were a total mess. Why is this important?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put me in a big room with a whole mess of women. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m too much of a mess to even question it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mess hall OIC stood on the bridge and decided when a gallery would be called to eat and when it would be excused. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she could enact Plan Melodramatic Aru and get herself out of this mess and never ever ever lie again. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She knew it was a mess, and she wasn’t quite sure why that bothered her so much. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It clattered to the floor, startling Cecilia, who turned around to look at the mess with wide-eyed amazement. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“And Mr. Corcoran said the National Guard is coming up today, too. What a mess.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She is glad not to be able to picture his life in all its detail, its mess. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally do rehearse, it’s a mess. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

‘Oh, I like the way you think. They sent me because I excel at messing things up.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By the time we were done, the place was a bloody, feathery, eerie mess. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Samuel Hamilton delivered all his own children and tied the cords neatly, spanked the bottoms and cleaned up the mess. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I fuss with my hair, removing the silk scarf and trying to pull the mess of frizzy curls up into a Belle-bun. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

If anything out of this whole mess was lucky, it was that a storm was coming. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The right-hand corner of the box was decorated with a mess of stamps. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“No, no, I get it. I’m just messing with you. I think the same thing sometimes. Like Daddy had to leave without telling us anything to protect us.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They’d ransacked the place, purposely leaving it a mess to make it look as if some junkie had broken in looking for drugs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Taking food from the mess hall was a definite violation. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I hurry over to the camouflage station, where some of the other tributes, undoubtedly the morphlings, have made a colossal mess. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that if I messed up, the punishment would be severe for all of us, simply because a Nazi was watching. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

His eyes were bloodshot, his hair a mess. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Who said the mess hall would have an exit to the yard? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ghosts of Might Be run riot in the woods, and stationery shops and messes of stars. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“The river is messing with your mind. It’s the Cocytus—the River of Lamentation. It’s made of pure misery!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The room was a mess, all their hand-me-down clothes and toys and towels slung over the backs of chairs and piled on the desk. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was a thin, mild kid who hated getting involved in messes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was being honest with himself, which he absolutely was not, he may have messed this one up. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“What Mister Johnny gone do if he come home and the house is a mess?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Just wonderful. This will completely mess up our schedule.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Jesus! This road is a mess,” he fumed, turning the radio off so he could concentrate. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I had messed up the first time I tried it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He’s sent to the floor, a pure mess of grief. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

And lest we forget what the job was about, Sergeant Bloom told us, “The easiest way to mess up is to leave a lock open.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just drop them off, Apollo. And no messing around!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A minute later, this brown sticky mess was flowing through every street in the village, oozing under the doors of houses and into people’s shops and gardens. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

They stop and stare at me and the helter-skelter mess I have made. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

"Well," he said, after some time, "I'm afraid I've made rather a mess of everything." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought there was something strange about that mess and now I know, she been sneaking us welfare food! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

While his first instinct was to blame Hamilton for the whole sorry mess, Washington’s speech justifying the action could not be so easily dismissed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her face is flushed, and her hair is a hot mess. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My friend saw the priest from our mess going by in the street, walking carefully in the slush, and pounded on the window to attract his attention. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But there’s no formula for figuring out the area of an amoeba-shaped mess. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We always tried to sit apart in the mess hall, but sometimes seating arrangements were out of our hands, and one night we found ourselves across the table from each other. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The once sleek lines were now a jagged mess of missing hull segments and empty anchor points where noncritical components used to be. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really mind what you do,” said Coraline’s mother, “as long as you don’t make a mess.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Hello?” the voice came again, and it sounded as if it was just on the other side of that mess. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You can’t come in my kitchen making a mess. This is my workplace. I don’t need you in here turning things upside down.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Needles, yarn in hand, stepped over the mess to get to the chair. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m not trying to mess with you. It’s just that absolutely nothing about liking a person—or even disliking someone—is firmly logical all the way through.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Pauling never got anywhere by seeking out messes. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Nasser was thirty-five and tall, with freckles and a thick mess of red hair. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m very grateful, since I know he didn’t want any part of this mess.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This close to his birthday, he wasn’t likely to mess up too badly, he figured. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But their troubles were just beginning, because the yard is, in many ways, like the mess hall: a place where many inmates come together, and passions are easily inflamed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His part of the deal was that if he saw or heard anyone mess with my tomatoes, he'd come at 'em full speed, holding the pitchfork. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His feet were on fire, his lower back was a mess of knotted muscles and tendons, his fingers throbbed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah? Well, you really messed up. Tino and Victor got caught anyway. They always do.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who didn’t hang out inside sat in segregated groups on the grass between the mess hall and the stadium. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Momma says it’s just trying to stir up a mess of trouble. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

A leaky pipe had dripped water all day and messed up the carpets. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I watched her through the mirror, the tip of her tongue sticking out of her mouth, concentrating, weaving the hair slowly, trying her best not to mess up. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Lord, look at that mess,” the woman declared. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

During the first year, teachers had been volunteers; equipment had been makeshift; classes were scattered all over camp, in mess halls, recreation rooms, wherever we could be squeezed in. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like those losers in Cluck Bucket—looking for a target, somebody to mess with. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mom grabbed me and ran her knuckles over my head, messing up my hair. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That’s what you all expect, isn’t it, for someone to come up behind you and clean up your messes? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But no one who wasn’t ready to die messed with West Indian Archie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilly knew in the marrow of her bones that if she stayed much longer, this place would mess her up. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I want you to mess with stuff. This is a place of tinkering, fiddling, experimentation. But,” he added pointedly, “before you touch, ask somebody.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was strange to see him messing around them on Saturday mornings, taking off the dead leaves and giving them water. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She felt like a dependable big sister who didn’t take any mess and always gave it to me straight. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The real test, I knew, would come upon the inmates’ return from mess hall, when they’d have to do something they were never keen on doing: lock back in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “I don’t make messes,” without a lick of sass. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of us have messed the mashed potatoes around on our plates without actually eating much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bet it’s actually somebody pretending to be a magician just to mess with me.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“And I am not messed around about the marriage!” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was on her hands and knees, head bent, her hair a wet and tangled mess covering her face. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It’s a real pain to get them down the ladder, I tell you, and I don’t want them making a mess up here. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Julius Caesar’s army wouldn’t have left such a mess after crossing the Rubicon. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mummy wipes the mess while Bess runs upstairs to bring Granddad clean trousers. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Pull everything out, sort it. If there’s anything salvageable, put it aside. Make a pile for the dump. Then just rake up around there. It’s such a mess.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I don't know what Brick saw in that pile of mess. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If this was how adults felt all the time, you could miss me with that mess. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When I heard about that fight, it came as advice not to mess with the new kid. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It really messed with Chris, partly because, like me, he was there, but also because he felt like it was too heavy to put out there so early. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Did you make all this mess, or was some of it done when you got here?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His shirt and jeans were rumpled and dirty, his red hair a tangled mess. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, you just messed up your count. You’re eating your research!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m not cheered by seeing you. I know the mess you’ve gotten this girl into. You’re no cheerful sight to me.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the pad, the black and gray smudges probably seeming like a crazy mess to her. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Milo’s mess halls would not even help him store the cotton, and his warehousing costs skyrocketed and contributed to the devastating drain upon his cash reserves. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the evening, we retire to our Fly & mess. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not messing with you, Finn. I really think you’re an okay guy.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And, in the day’s most interesting incident, he argued with an inmate who came in after working in the mess hall with his shirt stuffed with stolen food. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To him, it just looks like a big mess that is getting in the way of an area he needs to tar. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mandrake-growers have been known to seize the leaves of one of their prize plants only to find a bloody mangled mess below owing to the attentions of a Dugbog. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate standing up, from army mess kits, with their backs turned against the wind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anything to keep her from messing with her flame powers again. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I would be spending brief periods on a gallery but would also have a lot of time off, accompanying inmates to the mess hall and, later, to the commissary or package room or school building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet sank into the slimy mess, and I lost sight of my toes. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if they’d forgotten that it was a Republican president who’d governed us into this mess in the first place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It is like someone saying, “I messed up, and now I want to devote the rest of my life to making it right.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But, Chuck, I’m so scared this baby is going to be messed up too!” she said in a shuddering breath. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She went back to clear up her mess, talking inaudibly to her daughter all the while. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I like us. Even if we are a hot mess as a couple.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I just hope no one tells the police that two black boys at this party started all this mess and it ended in a fight. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It’s not the cart’s fault it’s messed up. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They got themselves in a mess, trying to lift it Then Gawaine suggested that it had better be dragged with rope. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I cleaned up our mess, since Ma hated when we ate in my room, Monday grabbed two of my Barbie dolls off the shelf. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So I show up and take the tests on Fridays and on the rest of the days Tanner’s got one less person to mess with. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure hair bleach was not something a couple of kids like us should be messing with. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

And, honestly, my back was still bruised from when Chas slammed me up against the soap dispenser the day he caught Megan rubbing her hand on my leg in the mess hall. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

What happened to Joey messed me up worse than anything I ever had to recover from. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“This is all so much weirder than our usual Logan messes. Somebody better explain stuff to us, or...OR...” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I did not join the Marines to stand in front of a blackboard,” Johnny Manuelito said as a group of us sat around together in the mess hall on our last day at Camp Elliott. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to find the right routes to untangle the mess, or it would just close up again like a rock and probably stay that way forever. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the doorway, gawking at the mess. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I think of the mess under her hat. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Whatever this voice was, it was messing with Uncle Jet. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Apparently, the stranger had wandered off; she could hear kids carrying on about messing that dude up, wherever he was. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The rear of the trailer has an airlock that we're not going to mess with. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they appear m a great flooding mess, as they so often do when they have destroyed a victim, they look like a tub of spaghetti that has been dumped on theT floor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your Aunt Spiker and I are about to become millionaires, and the last thing we want is the likes of you messing things up and getting in the way.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only way I was going to get through all the mess I’d caused, make it right somehow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve followed ladies around with a broom in one hand and a trash can in the other trying to keep up with their mess. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I stopped still and said as calmly as I could, “Look I’m sorry. I don’t mean to mess up your job, but there’s no reason for anybody to show me around. OK?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the gods can’t die now, right? I mean, as long as Western civilization is alive, they’re alive. So . . . even if I failed, nothing could happen so bad it would mess up everything, right?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I tried thinking about Stan, or Faith, or my mess of a life, tried reclaiming my rage, but it didn’t work. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Without another thought, Moss bolted up the steps, his legs a quivering mess of nerves and soreness and his heart full of misguided hope. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I mean, the neighborhood is messed up. What are people gonna think about us leaving instead of helping fix it?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Even when I said: “Tommy, your nice shirt. You’ll get it all messed up,” there was no sign of him having heard me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t blame him. I know the mess they make.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll need help boarding up the windows and clearing up this mess,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an etiquette about such messes, in those days: there was a line you crossed, from ignoring them to cleaning them up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"It's because the main dude is always like some guy who really wants to do good but always messes up. He's like...like..." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

How had she gone from the most feared prisoner in Endovier to this sappy mess? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was in my hair too—a matted mess of oily ropes. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘You don’t have to bother about Baby. I tell her everything. She knows about the whole mess from A to Z.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She must have just seen the giant mess and dropped her bags in horror. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

How in the world could things be so messed up? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I seriously don’t get how a guy who has a fine girlfriend like Mei-li, or some of the girls Diego gets with, could even look at other girls, much less mess around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The burlap didn’t cover all the blood and mess either. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

If we’re a messed up, dysfunctional family, I guess this can go down as our single functional moment. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I think it was the big-brother talk. ‘Don’t mess around with my sister’ and all that.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She surveys the mess of toys littered all over the patio, poking some game pieces with her painted toes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Valley tiptoed through the mess of papers and sat on the floor next to her notebook. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"To fix the mess I created last night." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Not hearth fire, like August, but fire that burns the house down, if necessary, to clean up the mess inside it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking to the mess tent at mealtime left me wheezing for several minutes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were messing around in a cutout in the lockers past the C-wing water fountain, by the windows that overlooked the creek. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And I can see across the baseball diamond in case somebody tries to come in here and mess everything up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

So what if I hadn't acquired those gestures and I was still just trying to get through the piece without messing up? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“He’ll try and mess with your head if ye let him.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I was hurrying back to the barracks when I heard a great commotion inside the mess hall, men shouting wildly, as if a fire had broken out. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed him out to Peaches and right away she got caught up in her attitude and talking about why J.T. had to come around to mess things up. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I messed everything up. I’m so sorry, Cady. I am so, so sorry.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I considered how Rondell was more messed up than I even thought. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a man who distilled his own wine three rooms down—he used mess hall rice and canned apricot juice—they heard him weeping late on their third night while his wife threatened him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Whenever I took a bath, my mom would say, “Here comes Hurricane Jackson,” because I made such a mess. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I look in the mirror, check to see if my hair is messed up from all this dancing. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just about everyone was crowding into the mess hall, all buzzing with first-day-back stories. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Everybody knew I lived there, and even though I wasn't the only kid at school from that neighborhood, it seemed like I caught the most mess about it. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The only reason I was going anyway was because of a paperwork mess up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had cleaned up the mess after the virus had wiped out everyone else, and now they were busy fogging the rooms with insecticide, in the hope that it might somehow disperse the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noodles continued, "I'm so, so, sorry," his words turning into a mess of tears and whimpers. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“One of the Mud People messes around with the camera for a bit and then we lose everything.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I remember a huge tiredness coming over me, a kind of lethargy in the face of the tangled mess before me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad starts speaking, but it’s a whole mess of words, and almost none of it makes any sense. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Killed a brakeman on the freight train and both engineers. Oh, you never saw such a mess.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lily and I stared at the mess on the floor. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She was painting her nails and messing them pretty badly when William went in and he knew she was bagged and Dora wouldn’t let a bagged girl work. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t really planning to switch it off—he’d heard too many lectures from Mom about not messing with her work. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe that cloud messed with the solar- wind junk before it got to me sleeping in my bed. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you’re not going to mess with me. And if we need to go to war for you to understand that then we have to go to war.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She looked on in silence while Kat got out the dustpan and brush and swept up the mess. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A language you cannot speak yourself is not necessarily a god-awful mess,” Celia says, transcribing a line of symbols into her notebook. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The VC would figure out that we were there, and they didn’t want to mess with us.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There’s a lot I don’t like about having a little brother: Cleaning his messes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The one she was messed up with when they were younger. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And that many lives depended on her not messing it up, including her own. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There was something about him—maybe it was his brains or his sincerity—something kept kids from messing with him. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, I know. This is just so messed up. . . .” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The knot Otto made in the laces when I was trying to escape from Bouain was a convoluted mess, made worse by repeated bathings in river muck. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here hang bits of uniform, and somewhere else is plastered a bloody mess that was once a human limb. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I messed up with the skin. It turned out too bright." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He said that I’d shown up and made a mess of everything, of the entire district, and couldn’t I see what I’d done? A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

No hope of finding anything in this mess before I passed out. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it was a mess, our beloved school was still standing. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I made a mess of our folded summer clothes until I found it. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It served him right for messing around with a wild thing and for giving it such an ill-fated name to boot. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you mess up, your rows will wobble, overlapping or spreading apart. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He messes up all the words and I laugh. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

You’d have to work pretty hard to mess this up, since there are three acceptable pronunciations. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood is blood, and you got to keep together with your family, even if they mess up. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Chloe could tell they were messing with her, but she had no idea how much. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

She cleaned things they hadn’t even messed up that day. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We are not here to mess around,” he said. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the teacup room tonight, Byrd doesn’t mess the blankets, and the house is fine and quiet. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Caesar strung up by the grinning mob; Caesar a brutalized mess on the floor of the slave catcher’s wagon, halfway back to Randall and the waiting punishments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The solo Norwegian, the Taiwanese, and especially the South Africans were frequent topics of discussion in Hall’s mess tent. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And as usual, I would have to go out there and finish the mess Vonetta started. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Maybe they are close like the weather, Ted. Combustible. Who knows? All I know is, it’s another fine mess.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I messed up, Rondo. Let somebody take it.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Most people don’t know what to make of the bright orange tangled mess of sticky treats. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

For a second, I thought she might be messing with me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You are a bloody mess, dude,” he says, throwing in the English accent. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He was only protecting me, and sending out a warning not to mess with me again. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he stuck out his tongue and the chocolate mess in his mouth dripped. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guys like that always try to mess with somebody else to make them feel better, and I just wasn’t in the mood. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Find it for me and press it, would you? I know it’s a mess. Everything’s a mess.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in fact I was still quite new, a fact driven home to me one day as I was seating inmates in the mess hall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped by the time school let out, but the road was a muddy mess. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"But I gotta apologize to you too, for my part in all this mess. I pushed for him going to the stupid party in the first place. You didn't want him to go. I did." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I want to say, "Don't pick me up, then," because I really want some distance from the whole mess of it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was furious with my brother for messing things up just when I was getting to know Lissa, but there he stood, ready to cry, though Lissa wouldn’t have guessed it from his fierce expression. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

At least they got it, that it was all in fun and that if you messed with the rugby team, we were going to mess right back. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I am happy to be left to my own devices, my own messes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even know how to help myself. I’m a mess, and I’m not about to mess you up too.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“American women? Don’t mess with them! They have little guns in their bags—small guns you can’t see. And if you bother them, they just shoot you.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was a lumpy mess, and he would be looking out of a couple of black eyes for a while. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He terrorized kids at their school for minor messes; now he was the minor mess. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Right down the hall. She was here for a couple of months. She was a real mess. I’ve never seen anyone so devastated.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have already mentioned how kids at school didn’t mess with Branwell. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That whole mess with the visitors’ bleachers and Mr. Bridges and the cops had pushed the game past the four o’clock barrier. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his father told him that long story, it really seemed like Jack and the Beanstalk . . . some fairy tale mess. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, I didn’t just make toast; I made cheese toast, moving my slices of bread to the microwave and melting a fat mess of gooey cheddar between them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Briony stepped over and around the mess to get to the dressing table. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m a mess, but I’m not that messy. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Her traverse through the forest, normally almost as straight as the Road itself, was a twisty, windy mess. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The epic mess, the second epic mess about Frank, but the first time, the very first time that she broke her promise. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I descended a narrow staircase from the mess hall to R-gallery very carefully, because with the trays stacked high, I couldn’t see in front of me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So just be normal,” he says, “at least for today. Let’s pretend I’m not a mess, let’s pretend you’re not angry. Let’s act like we’re friends and forget what happened.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Instead of Ate pizza, I put down Threw up Mom’s squash and then for 2, I write Felt like I wanted to kill myself, all the while telling Keith to hold on, I messed up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. G’s class, a camp experience with my church, and my parents’ continued encouragement helped me to see the mess I was making of my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Piper and I weren’t encouraged to go outside much so we read a little and helped in the mess and slept. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need you to tell my son anything! I left him with you for ONE DAY, and you’ve already got him mixed up in your—your—mess!” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Archimedes sent his own great-great-grandson, so that he could sit on the back of the King’s throne at dinner, and make messes on the floor. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It never even got messed up playing rugby, and he hated wearing anything that would put one strand out of place. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We know the Fifth will mess up. They should take somebody good. ” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“What in seven holy bells happened to you two? You are a level mess.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I knew better than to complain, especially when she gave me a look and said I better not mess up again. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She sat on a crate in the middle of the jumbled mess and laughed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he knew the important things—like never mess with Mama when she was in bed—Mama got really mad when you woke her up, especially if she had somebody in bed with her. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s sort of funny, because even without any lines to mess up, I’m nervous. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Lanning raised a quieting hand, “All right, it’s been a mess, but it’s all over. What now?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

As he wiped the mess away he said, “What’s my name?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Helen Wilton hung a sign in our mess tent that read, “Go, Goran, Go!” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ve really got myself into a mess this time,” she told Mother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can we see the questions and answers later so we know where we messed up?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He was still in the same hot mess that we were. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You know she makes a mess! Why don’t you wait and dress her after she eats?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Not lethal. Usually. Oh, yes, and there’s the mess hall.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was learning to live in the disquiet I felt in Moorland-Spingarn, in the mess of my mind. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Gee, thanks, Chris! Now I’m going to totally mess up my solo at the spring concert. And it’s totally going to be your fault!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Camp authori-ties frowned on mess hall hopping and tried to stop it, but the good cooks liked it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish all humans had your qualities, Nathan. The Fourth World wouldn’t be in such a mess as it is now,” Wind Being said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“What if we mess with them? Let them think the exam is different?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Lita always said there are costs when you mess with nature. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You made a mess, is what you made. Now, get to work, Jinny. We need more firewood. Go.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I did something wrong, didn’t I? I messed something up.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I gobbed on the melted liquid, but I made a mess of it, the solder dripping down the tubing and the washer not on straight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to make Gaea sorry she had ever messed with Leo Valdez. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He’ll be happy for me and mess up my hair and say, “Good going, Al!” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“On my momma they messed with the wrong one. Point them out and I’ll handle them fools.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Somehow it seemed worse to mess up, to ruin everything months, rather than years before they could escape. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Your father said not to make a mess,” I told the two kids sitting on my rug. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

John nodded, put his hand to his mouth, and made a fierce noise, at which much of the mess was astonished. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Excellently put, Royal, and you’ve got my vote for Minister of Magic if ever we get out of this mess,” said Lee. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then, with sudden rage, “Listen! If that metal mess gives me any lip like that, I’ll knock that chromium cranium right off its torso.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

His blue shirt clung to his back in a crumpled mess. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if Dusty Muleman ratted him out, or if the electronic ankle bracelet was programmed to send a certain signal when somebody messed with the lock. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The words didn’t get messed up in his brain. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

These were split logs and sticks, a jumbled mess. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“When we shoot our scenes together, I’m going to mess with his head. When I’m done with Fred, I guarantee you he won’t be able to sit, stay, roll over, or even remember his name!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It looks like we’re going to have one stormy day, honey,” she said as she glanced at the wet mess outside the window. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Japanese planes dove over Oahu, more than two thousand miles to the west, a few marines were sitting in a mess tent on Wake Atoll, having breakfast. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

An hour or so into the serving there was a commotion at Gaines’s table, and the mess hall grew silent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shouted over her shoulder, “Don’t mess it up.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The whole room burst into a mess of voices. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Jennifer comes home and asks me to put my plate in the dishwasher and clean up the mess I made in the microwave. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Here we were, messing with some old man who Mong had all tied up and gagged, and Rondell wasn’t even paying attention. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He mess with me and the Diablos will burn him up. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the girl with the red hair comes in to turn down my bed, her eyes widen at the mess. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I bet she would do just about anything to be released. I’m sure she would do those two things at least. Then we might actually get out of this mess.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Frankie ducked under a bunch of wires to look at the mess that used to be the stairs. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It took him all day to clean up the mess. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh honey-girl,” she said when she saw the mess in the sink. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mom ordered pizza for dinner, to avoid having a big mess to clean up before we left. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had a rotten life in the mess and he was fine about it but I thought how he would be in his own country. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In each room he found a desk, an electric typewriter, a telephone, and a mess. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at the rate I’d been going, I’d have messed things up with her and lost the chance to make her see that I was her perfect guy. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the screen obstructed Holmes’s view of the mess. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a mess, and with a smell in her nose that would turn anyone’s stomach. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Sorry. Whenever Cal comes over, he always messes them up. Okay, this is the song I wanted you to hear. Listen." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Messes” of loose paper, clothing, or toys are to be stacked into “neat messes.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially if they’re going to talk about her and Nick being a freaking mess. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Once I finally got it under control, I said, “Well, listen, if it makes you feel any better, the cops messed my groove up too.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Lana felt good for the first time since she had come upon those two characters messing up her bar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, he doesn’t mess with me when I’m pregnant. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“When the Ash Being was messing with me,” Nathan said, “it was making all the bad feelings and thoughts I already had worse.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I will take your greetings to the mess.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe? I’m not sure. Things have been so confusing and messed up the last couple weeks...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

At the stern was a large mess hall/lounge, which was where Leo headed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“But being a good mess officer in wartime just isn’t enough, Colonel Cathcart.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was searching through a mess of papers. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Well. That is a mess. Still, you didn’t mean it, did you?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Pick up that wash and get on out of here, so I can get this mess cleaned up.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad tried really hard not to die of boredom, and he kept messing up which girl was which, saying, “We like her?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Julia gets up and starts messing with stuff on my desk. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

To mess around with Ebola is an easy, wav to die. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I helped Grandma clean up the mess while the mac and cheese baked. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s try to figure this mess out. Who wants to talk first?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I leaned my head into the mess, limbs dangling with no effort, just another set of roots protruding out of the fallen tree. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Now, after messing up in Chicago, I sat in his office and tried to explain how much pressure I’d been feeling. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My report card was a mess of brightly colored red marks and circled grades. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And as usual, I would have to go out there and finish the mess Vonetta started. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Belgian foremen would bring baskets full of brown hands back to the boss, piled up like a mess of fish. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, all of a sudden, I got in this big mess. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Or maybe like she didn't get what a mess she was. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry, Daoud, I really am. I got you into this mess." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The only bright spot in the whole mess was that I wouldn’t have to make payment on the $100 war stamps pledge. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“If the picture, or the camera, froze the county, what if messing with one of them did stuff to the county, too? What if we tore the picture, and that ripped the county in half?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Angel Atkins calls me names and messes with me all the time. Today she tripped me in front of everyone, so I pushed her, and she fell out her chair.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Many were there to provide various services to the men who did— doing their laundry, cooking their meals at the mess hall, selling them various sundries, disposing of their trash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was applying for scholarships so he could get out of that mess. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Little girl, don’t you ever touch her again. I don’t know who you think you are, but you are really messing with the wrong one.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

‘I shall get you some more breakfast, ma’am, and have this mess cleared up.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have no idea what Quinton was doing. For all we know he got caught up in the same mess as so many of the young men from around here.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean to bury you in our troubles, but things have been pretty hard here, Eugenia. We were worried sick after all that mess last year. With the other one.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was a mess, so many things out of place. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Robert squirmed away from the rag, but his father caught him and cleaned off most of the mess before he set his son on the floor. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would do our best to create a mess, scattering food all over the plates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever there was a problem—a labor dispute with the Sherpas, a medical emergency, a critical decision about climbing strategy—people trudged over to our mess tent to seek Hall’s advice. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had taken one to the jaw a few times before, messing around with Malloy, enough that it's gotten pretty sturdy over the last few years. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“You can fly it anywhere, with or without a magnetic grid. And it’s the perfect thing for spreading fires. The Rusties sure knew how to make a mess.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You messed with the wrong man today,” the pilot said in a low, vicious voice. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Frank bent down to clean up the mess. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

So after cleaning up the mess, I told Hadley I was taking Delilah to Deamer Park to run off leash, which was her favorite thing ever. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I find the post-hole digger in that mess of tools all leaned up against the wall. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Livid with rage he clawed the foul mess from his eyes and saw Constance leaning over the parapet with a wicked grin of delight on her striped muzzle. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You know what they say, folks ain’t ever truly clean once they been on that mess.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He dug out as much of the mess as he could and scattered it about. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day before departing Base Camp, Rob had sat the team down in the mess tent and given us a lecture about the importance of obeying his orders on summit day. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

So I grabbed my board and headed out, but to be honest, I was a bit of a mess. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Genie stood a few feet away from Samantha’s shabby old doghouse, scribbling a mess of words in his notebook. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a rag from the counter and leaned down to wipe up the mess. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The storm had made a mess of the beach, dredging up everything in the ocean and dumping it on the sand—seaweed, logs, and trash. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But now, even if I did get a job offer in a big city, I can’t abandon Aibileen in the middle of this mess. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She would never have been in this mess if she’d let a much younger and smarter fox handle things. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I brought you a tray of food from the mess hall. I didn’t want to wake you.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Fine. Just be sure you clean up the mess afterward, girls. I don’t want any basketball players to trip.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Few things were as bad as disappointing Father or Mama, but knowing that Dr. King might find out we’d messed up was one of them. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Two of them, an older woman and a teenage boy, immediately scrambled out of the mess and ran down the alley. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The one I wore when my Pops got bit, and when my cousin came home from Iraq messed up so bad they couldn't even open the casket. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We used to enjoy those legions of collectibles, and we were glad for them, their happy messes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I stepped on a mess of them a couple of weeks ago. They stunk like a skunk!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I need to study and this place is a mess. I’ll be at my mother’s.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to mess anything up like I did when we went hunting. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Powell tells me to wait after class, and I’m nervous all over again that he’s going to tell me this is what he warned me about and I better stop messing up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Peace of mind, my brother. You can sleep tonight knowing your mess is someone else’s problem.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I might mess around and make somebody fall in love with this breath. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I talked to my parents and things are good now, but that day really messed up my way of thinking about things. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“He seems kind of happy already. No sense messing with success, is there?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“George,” Pollard told him, “will probably mess everything up as usual and try to get beaten a nose, but even George isn’t bad enough to beat Seabiscuit in this one.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pay them each a pouch of spintria and leas coins and ask them to help me mess up the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Ma pulls a small red tin from the mess on the table. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I started out with the Lord’s Prayer as best as I could remember it, got messed up with the part about trespassing, and gave it up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there wasn’t time to mess with a fool dog. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are making a dirty, brown, dying-looking mess along the sides of our roads,” a New England woman wrote angrily to her newspaper. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Now, as in the past, he and Nazario would clean up the mess and he could continue dreaming. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden I’m remembering how those other boys messed with me on that day after Juju’s party, and all of a sudden it’s like my body’s taking orders from somebody else. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

We could hole up with the factionless and let the rest of them sort through this mess. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

How these families keep smiling and laughing, unworried about any potential messes in their lives, because they have these paper towels. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was glad to discover there was more mess than loss. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice already Bernd has begged Volkheimer to try one on the impacted mess of the stairwell, to see if they can blast their way out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Everything was messed up, a bigger mess than before, and she felt all mixed up with fear and anger. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He frowned at the black and white mess in which lay the unburnt ends of branches. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He shook his head at the mess they had made and sucked his teeth in disgust. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But Jesus, man, if you hadn’t gotten yourself into this mess, neither of us would be here in the first place.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Now don’t go messing with me at two in the morning, Bull. I’m in no mood. Why in the hell can’t you drive during normal hours?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, Dad said, that old Demon had figured out that it had better not mess with Rex Walls. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So you know for sure that this isn’t gonna mess me up, then?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“This place is a mess,” she said, and shook her head. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A few days ago. She seemed really messed up about it.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’d take a saint after all to straighten such a mess out.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Coach, please. I know I messed up, but please. Please, Coach." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When Ivy saw Joe and June talking to the girls, he yelled, saying one of them was his cousin, and they’d better stop messing with her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t just me, Robert. The other guys, they’re still messed up too. That ceremony didn’t help them.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Despite all the mess, the doctors looked at me and smiled. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I wished I had never come to Greenwood, never gotten mixed up with R.C. or Emmett or any of this mess. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Besides, I don't want to mess with the suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Did you bring my makeup? I must look a mess." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I clean up after others. I leave the palace better than I found it. But you...you do not care what messes you make. You followed Kronos blindly. Now you take orders from Gaea.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The thing was that if we messed around and she did get pregnant I would probably have to have some help supporting her until I got to the NBA. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the night at Bernice State Park stretched out atop our sleeping bags in the mess of Cade’s camper shell. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Waffle day\\ The news was passed to the knot of officers outside the mess hall by one who worked in the kitchen. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was good of him, not letting me mop up the mess with bare hands. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It’s like I’m so messed up she’s afraid to be in the same room with me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Of course, I was a sweaty mess inside that hot polyester suit. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the mess is an old, faded greeting card propped up next to a teddy bear. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Balsa wood? What are the mess halls going to do with balsa wood?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t start up that Black Panther mess down here. Not today. Not any day.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“When it comes to the people I care about, everything gets messed up in my head. I don’t know who I am, but I know who I don’t want to be.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“One day I’m gonna mess around and make you say mercy.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And his ankles are stuck under a mess of brambles and boards. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

"I know you, the real you, and I don't care about your mess, so now I'm calling you out on it." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“They made it impossible for him to play. Every day, they found another way to mess with him. Then one Friday after school, they locked him in the storage closet.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“We would have killed them if the referees didn’t call a foul every time you looked at one of them. We ain’t played nobody yet that we couldn’t mess over.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m gone get the wash. You all stand stock still right there and don’t mess up nothing.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cleaned up the mess I had made and left them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s dangerous out here. The cities are like these boulders. They may seem solid, but if you start messing with them, the whole pile could crumble.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Leo stood in the doorway of the mess hall, taking in the scene around the dining table. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Abby motioned to the mess and kicked a path for us. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I realized Ares must love to mess with people’s emotions. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t someone else come to clean up the mess and fetch the water? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if he’s making it up to mess with my head? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Then my life wouldn’t have been so messed up. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I ask him what would give him that impression and he replies to the effect that it is not like me to mess up and besides which I have seemed a trifle distracted. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The front door stood open, and Anya poked her head inside, surveying the mess that marred Widow Medvedeva’s usually pristine living room. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But his body is a mess: his digestion is terrible, from poor nutrition; his teeth are getting worse by the day. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

According to my mom, we couldn't mess with our brows until we turned fifteen. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Your closet was a mess...and I found these. Did you steal them?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Hera’s messed with my life, too. I understand—” “You understand nothing,” Hercules said coldly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The other tributes are poking around in the mess, looking for anything to salvage, but there's nothing. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Chicago might as well be a million miles away from Flint and Miss Hill might as well be a squashed, crunched-up mess in a washing machine when it came down to helping me now. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Specials must have waited until most of the Smokies were gathered in the mess hall before launching their invasion. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I noted that his cheek and lip fuzz was missing and his eyebrows were now separated by a stark white space of skin rather than the unruly mess of hairs that had been there before. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

We marched up the hill to the mess hall pavilion. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

How did he stay so focused with all the mess going on around him? Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“No one got me in a mess, Fergy. I get in my own messes.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Derek gets hit and I act like I’m the one getting messed up. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It messes with my mind a little, seeing how much there is out there, how big everything is. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men’s minds are messy places and Noise is like the active, breathing face of that mess. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Chocolate would have made a mess of my clothes anyway. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I had just made my first friend in Naomi, and nobody was going to mess that up for me, not even old pinch-faced Amanda Wilkinson. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But your mom would too. So I’m not messing up and risking the time I do have with you.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Don’t listen to anything these dumb boys say. They’re only good for hunting and fishing and shouting and making a mess. They don’t know what they’re talking about. Now, come with me, okay?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My room was exactly as I left it, a mess. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“So, you here to be a big-time actor?” he asked as he lifted a box off a pile and added it to the mess on the ground. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I whirl around to ask them why are they messing with me, but when I see Angie, my mouth just drops open like I’m in the doctor’s office and he wants me to say ahhhhhhh. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The camera then follows me upstairs, in our old house, to show the viewers my neat room in contrast to Muhammad’s mess. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They blew plates and cups around so quickly, the mess hall looked like a delicious hurricane. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Gabe looked around at the piles of boards, the sawdust, the mess on the ground. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And I wish for things to get back to the way they were before I messed everything up. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Soon they have wax and crayons and string and so many things on the table that it is a bigga mess. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I hop off at Seventy-Second Street and step out into a mess of people and taxis and strollers and noise. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

No way would she be the one to mess it up. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t leave now, right when things are getting bad. I’m not going to leave you in this mess.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Like hell you don’t. Did you mess with her?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The writer must work to keep up the impression that his prose is a window onto the scene rather than just a mess of words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

A meeting to debate the matter was called in our mess hall. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the light comes back on, the mess of the stairwell looks the same. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was pointing out that we Robinsons had been reduced to a true and ridiculous mess—unrecognizable with our swollen eyelids and dripping noses, our hurt and strange helplessness here in our own kitchen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, my boy? Fine mess you got yourself in.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Among them, Tally recognized faces from those who’d made a stand at the mess hall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Trust me, I messed up and read the comments. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

His old nemesis, the lieutenant, was watching him like a hawk, waiting for him to mess up. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was like a small city, laid out on a grid with mess halls, stores, bars, movie theaters, and even swimming pools. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

No, I didn’t want to mess that up. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In my head the ideas are so clear and make perfect sense, but when the words come out they're a mess. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and some fighters it’s probably best not to mess with.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

My bed is a huge mess of paints, sheets of paper, and brushes. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

A mess of colorful bits of paper sits directly below the tree. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And my name, my full name, prettily lettered on a card to tell the whole world who had created this mess. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Was it worth it to mess up your whole life for the sake of a few dozen lines scrawled on walls and lockers and garbage dumpsters? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Alma, I’m really sorry about the drama club fundraiser. I was planning all sorts of amazing things...and now everything is a mess. The money is gone, and Freebie is...” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turns out one Howie Holman from Detroit, Michigan, had been gunned down behind the counter of his own store, leaving a wife and three kids behind to clean up the mess. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Didn't really make sense for me to wipe her mouth until she was done making a mess. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then, Sam walked up to me and messed up my hair. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Brothers is the baddest. Then comes Dominicans. Dominicans don't mess around. I'm cool with Dominicans though. They don't mess with me, I don't mess with them." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Yossarian gorged himself in the mess hall until he thought he would explode and then sagged back in a contented stupor, his mouth filmy with a succulent residue. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I swallow a few mouthfuls of water and lose count of my strokes and mess up my breathing. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“You can’t leave a mess for even two seconds. And she’s only got Internet out in her office and I’m not allowed in there.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Bueno, and what do you do when you make a mess?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I can tell Shiloh likes the fried chicken better than he liked the sour cream-frankfurter mess he’d been eating all week. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ducky didn’t want to hear that mess and neither did I so she shut up. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

When he messed up on two words, his father glared at him from his seat. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t mess me all up! This was just delivered from the laundry!” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I turn to go around it, but everyone else has the same idea, resulting in a mess of swearing, shoving, mired bodies. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

All clues to let Axel know it is time to leave his home, to leave behind this mess. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It is too early in the morning to mess with me,” she replied. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We’re not really tight but he’s okay and he can play a whole mess of guitar. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mess hall, and two cooks sitting listening to the radio got coffee for us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some more cop cars came and before you turned around there’s about seven cars and a whole mess of people milling around 145th Street, trying to figure out what was going on. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, I'm pretty sure what completely did me in was my dad, sitting on that windowsill, apologizing for selling our house and for the mess that we were now in. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

All I needed to do was mess up the perfectly smoothed bedcovers, which I did with a jump. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Free? Free to do what, Sam? Free to mock your King? To shoot your neighbor? To make a mess of thousands of lives? Where have you been getting these ideas?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could the girl who told that joke three hours before become a sobbing mess? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Papa had always been the one to mess up Anya’s hair, and Mama had dutifully taken over the role when he had gone. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Okay. This is good. I think. Help me not mess this up.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When I try to gather my thick braids up on top of my head, it’s a mess. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Momma says that she believes that someone as smart as me can figure her way out of this mess, no matter how big it is. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure she even knew why the dress was a mess. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t say it with much energy ’cause I wasn’t really in the mood to mess around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Helene has followed me out of the mess hall, but the fog helps me evade her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A smattering of art history, messing around with charcoal. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There's usually a lag of a few days between the end of the competition and the presentation of the victor so that they can put the starving, wounded, mess of a person back together again. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

You might be able to smooth the skin a bit, but there’s still a big mess in the middle of the face, and the eyes are nowhere near where they should be. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Norman Bates is one of those cracked stone men you shouldn't mess with. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Jacob—oh, goodness. I’m making an awful mess of this. It’s none of my business. Really. Please forgive me.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He and George were always together, they never messed around with anyone. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I woulda hated to leave your grandma like that. So, that was it. Mary was all messed up by it, and so was I. I ain’t been out here since.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Well, then I guess we have to find a way out of this mess ourselves.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

If we mess about with that pattern, all kinds of things can go wrong. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

These patches of disorder make no difference — it is a house too spectacular to suffer distraction, forgiving of oversight and mess. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing to hold on to in this whole mess. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair is out of its usual knot, in a mess around his shoulders. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There’s a mess at our feet from all the work we did, too. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Percy made it sound like he was just doing Leo a favor, but there’d been an undertone like If you mess with my friend, I will personally feed you to a great white shark. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“So I don’t want you saying anything to mess it up, okay?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at his sweatshirt, started messing with the zipper. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His lips had grown to the size of tree branches and hung off his jaws in a floppy mess. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He whirled around, knocking over a tray of brood frames, which made a great big mess all over the floor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would hold up my dress hems so Mama could throw up into it, so we wouldn’t make a big mess in Father Benedict’s house. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And she did all a person could to try to straighten out their messes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Man, she’s sitting up in his office fixing to cry and whatnot and he asking some stupid mess like that. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Get that dog out of here, Turtle! He’ll mess up the rug!” she said. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I hoped she would stay close like that, but Maggie barked, “Don’t mess up the sheets!” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Flaca and me had at least messed around and talked some. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My face must be a total mess of disbelief. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Talking to myself. This place...it’s messing with my mind. Giving me dark thoughts.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I want to tell him I’m waiting for the mess pot for the servants, the one that James and Richard and I share with the two men who serve Master Wingfield. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Abram scoops the hominy into the mess pots, but I don’t want to eat. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We don’t want that pretty singing voice of yours messed up with all this smoke!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I watch from the passenger seat as they clip their little alligator mouths somewhere in that mess of engine and battery parts. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Now don’t you mess with me this morning,” Elisha said, “because you ain’t got so holy I can’t turn you over my knee. I’s your big brother in the Lord—you just remember that.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He lay on a sleeping bag, partly covered, his eyes closed, his head in a mess where he had been sick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, you really made a mess of things,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had formed early during my development and made a mess of my face, pushing my eyes to either side of my head. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It’s my only chance, and I don’t want to mess it up. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

You know, like I thought he would mess me up. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why am I not surprised? King would do some mess like that.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I was really scared to go to one particular pledge night, because they told us to wear clothes that could get messed up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“How could somebody’s favorite cartoon character be one that always messes up?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And even when I mess up, I just pull out the thread and start all over again until I get it right. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Russ could be kidding, pretending, messing with us. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sound of troops at route step, shuffle in the dust, dull clink of mess kits, a band in the distance, tinny, forlorn, raw call of a cow in the sunlight. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If those police officers weren’t going to jail, then it made sense that the whole prison system was messed up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I guess when I get bored I like to mess with Rondell for some reason. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Leaving the mess hall with food was theft of state property, an offense right out of the book. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then go get some great genius specialist, why don’t you? Why waste time messing around with me, a guy who the King fired.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They slept in the homes of local residents and they had a mess area with tables under a grove of trees. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My blood still burning, I shove through the mess doors and find myself in the belltower courtyard before I even know where I’m going. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When someone hurled raw eggs at her, she wiped away the gooey mess and said that the “seeds of truth” in her words could not be so easily removed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

What a mess they must have been coming out of my mouth. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Today was not the day to mess with Virgil Salinas. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“We got all messed up. Both of us.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He was late for the daymeal in the mess, and Beregond greeted him gladly, and sat him at his side to hear news of his son. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

‘He couldn’t have taken the physician’s cure. Nothing could have survived that explosion. I thought... I thought I was helping Leo. I messed up.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“That was a concert party they had in the sergeants’ mess last Christmas.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His hands were shaking, and he didn’t want to mess this up. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty hard to imagine an outraged populace protesting, “Whom do you think you’re messing with! Get your hands off our pronouns!” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know if Pocock had talked to Ulbrickson, or if Merton Hatch had simply messed up in some spectacular way, or if Ulbrickson simply needed someone else at number seven for the day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She turns away, busying herself with more of the mess I have created. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

If I looked at him any longer, I was going to start crying, so I pushed myself up and crawled over him to dig my school uniform out of the mess on the floor. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Malloy always said the army was okay, but it was the war that messed him up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, Taft. You were a mess on the phone last night.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Her eyes skittered through the mess for something familiar, any clue about where her room might have landed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I won’t have to change in the bathroom, at least, or keep my mess on one side. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. You messed up pretty good this time.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This time they messed up some private property.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship itself was a mess of snapped rigging and broken spars. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“You’re a mess,” she mutters, readjusting the faded purple faja around my waist and then, in frustration, unwrapping the entire wide ribbon. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a roiled mess of waves cancelling each other out, you would have a pond of perfectly ordered waves, with high points and low points appearing regularly at the same spots again and again. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But Tobias doesn’t mess with the Black or Latino boys, at least on the bus. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Everybody but Yossarian thought Milo was a jerk, first for volunteering for the job of mess officer and next for taking it so seriously. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Levi comes back with a roll of paper towels to mop up the mess. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I was so sorry about how I messed everything up. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around the room, toward the hall, and finally she said, “You have career. You are busy. You want to live like mess what I can say?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His soles really did mess up the wood. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He punched me kind of soft in the arm and said, “At least you oughta make ’em pay you for doin’ that mess. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nora’s mouth is warm and tastes horrifying, like peach schnapps, and she bites his lip and messes up his hair for good measure. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I slid back slightly, not wanting his usual messes to land on my beautiful dress. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They were all thirteen and fourteen and messing with guys like me was just a game for them. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the corner of a photograph and slid it out of the mess, careful not to dislodge anything else. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Look, you don’t wanna waste your evening messing with that character laying in the street. He’s some kinda bum. You look like you could use you some fun.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And Dad, did you know we’ve been messing up the lyrics to ‘September’ this whole time? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I got this mess of sick green blobs. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

That was the day I would cook fancy dishes like lamb curry and mess up the whole kitchen. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prom was over now, so she could look and put her mind on the mess she saw. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Already I had enough scary thoughts to worry me about my brain being messed up so I tried to think of something good like Mom told me to do. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Jonathan, listening to something his father is saying, doesn’t hear, Gogol feels helpless, annoyed yet unable to blame his mother, caught in the mess he’s made. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I try not to, but I feel kind of sorry for him then, seeing he’s just as confused as I am about all this mess. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s that everything makes me . He paused. “Things are messed up in the world, that’s all.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He messed up her hair again and walked away from her, Ghost moving silently beside him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. McCabe, the assistant principal, had a fleshy pink face and a look in his eyes that said Don’t mess with me. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We reach the mess hall, and the cacophony within hits us like a wave—laughter and boasts and the raucous talk of three thousand young men on the verge of leave or graduation. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We weren’t even going to be awake to interact with the Monitors, or make a mess in our rooms. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I poured soy sauce into the whole mess and shouted, “Lunch is ready.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes moved over the mess, but it did not look like he could make sense of it. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran over and hugged her, feeling like at least this battle was half won, even if the rest of my life was a mess. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I believe it kind of got us into this mess. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Why you want to mess that up? Forget the blues.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It sounded like a chant, the way it was distilled, the way it stripped all the mess of the outside down to the bone of the problem. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t tell me where he is right now,” he says, “I’ll make sure you regret messing with the Sanders family. You understand me?” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But her thoughts felt like a mess of tangled yarn. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She insists it will make a mess, and she doesn’t want to clean. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I hardly got to go anywhere either, so I wasn’t going to mess up my chance by crossing Raheem. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The world just looked like a blurry mess of shadows for a few moments while she adjusted her eyes. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We had fun messing around at school, and he came to my house for an overnight once. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just messing around. I agree it was probably not the best way to spend first period.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If we wanted to sleep in properly made beds that night, we had to get going and straighten up the mess. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“This community is about family! Canal Grove has always been about family. And now you want this guy who knows nothing about us to come in here and mess with our family?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We were best friends in kindergarten—until I got in trouble for messing up her hair. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“He messed with the Tigros so he got to be messed up!” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked, I stared, but still saw nothing but a mess of tan leaves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He enlivened an hour, and then departed to mess with our fellows. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“One of our new pilots. He became mess officer while you were in the hospital this last time.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Never one to mess around, Ob got right to the point. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

She played with my hair, which had air dried into a curly mess. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go? “Shan’t say nothing if you don’t say please,” said Peeves in his annoying singsong voice. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I typed “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” like Mom taught me, to check that they hadn’t messed up the keys, and then a little bit of !&$?! for emphasis. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Can I see the inside before you start messing around in there?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

"I'm so sorry. I'm a mess. I'm suffocating you." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I breathe heavily, my sickles and hands covered in the inky mess that is a shambler’s blood. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We stared at the mess in Digger’s front yard: tires, rusted wheel rims, an old automobile frame up on cinder blocks, a large wooden spool from some wire Digger’s father had hauled once. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even as it was, nobody within a thousand miles wanted to mess with him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled up the driveway to the backyard where Hassan and Ali were cleaning up the mess from last night’s party. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Layla is sprawled out on another leather couch, and she looks a hot mess too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, Mr. Detective," he said with a quiet, threatening voice, ''that will teach you to mess with the Thief Lord," Then he waved at the others, "Come on, put him in the men's bathroom." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Penny sits on Mom’s lap and keeps pushing computer keys, messing up the display, which is getting on my nerves. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The second time, I performed much better, sticking all my landings and not wobbling or messing up on the beam. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And now it had become an absolute mess. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the coach was trussed like a rodeo calf and dumped with the other loot—crates of food, extra weapons, even the magical ice chest from the mess hall. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m already a kicked-wide, open-souled mess; would prefer not to add hot and bothered to the mix, especially since—hello!—he still has a girlfriend. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

How it’s probably better in a group home to just roll solo and do your time and don’t mess with nobody. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Because I got a gun in my truck that will make a lot less mess.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Why would someone be interested in collecting this data and messing with the games?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Scott scrubbed the toilets and took out the trash and straightened up messes people left in the living room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But I was determined not to mess up, so I practiced like crazy. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And if he's just come to tell us he can't do anything about the mess we're in, then you might as well wring his lying neck!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She cleaned up the mess with a sigh and left me with my music and an empty spot on my table. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Andy stuck his head inside the door of their mess tent, flashed his most winning smile, and inquired, “Hi, there. Is anybody home?” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the foul mess before him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don't I tell you,” she said in accented English, “not to mess with girls? Hassan is a good boy, doesn't do this 'dating.' And look how happy he is. You should learn from him.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it’s six-thirty. Time for cartoons, aka the only time I have to clean up the previous day’s messes before it all goes to hell again.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He would loan them mess tins if they did not have them. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As a dishwasher, I was at the very bottom of the kitchen hierarchy, so I needed to follow the rules and not mess up. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Being helpless and thinking baby thoughts and dreaming baby dreams and messing up his pants again and smiling all the time. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was tangled up in the mess and struggling to keep his head above the water. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ships sat docked along the pier, a mess of rope and netting with sailors calling to each other, too busy to notice the royal procession. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Only ten and starting this mess already,” Big Ma said. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

There were lots of kids messing around, and almost everybody, adults and children alike, wore jeans and shirts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We lost a ton of people. . . . It’s a mess of blood up there . . . then they all just shut down.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“So didn’t you make him promise not to blow the cover? Why are we using him if he’s just going to mess everything up?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

After that “shrimp” remark, I couldn’t resist messing with them. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Now I really don’t understand. Why don’t you sell your mess halls the eggs for seven cents apiece instead of for five cents apiece?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The dungeon held no monster, but it was a beastly mess. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Victor said, “Yeah? I’ll mess up your face with some delicate hands.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or is there something about this place that really messes with your mind? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Somehow they messed with things to make a radial signal, however weak it may be. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you are messing with the wrong person,” I say through gritted teeth. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was more than holding the oil field mess at bay; the more she cleaned, the less of Henry was in the house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bubbe hates it when she visits and the house is a mess. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Barnabas Saint was the tree, tearing the house apart, and Great-Grandpop was the birds, sitting in all that mess, eating themselves. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It don’t need to be in this mess.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Mental note: Do not mess with her driveway,” Matthew said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Why does this hurt more than my messed up knees? Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

You poured them from your shirt- hammocks into the crater and poked the mess with sticks. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In a word, the church was a mess. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the mess hall turned to the president. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Long as you don’t mess around in my room, you can light this whole apartment up.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The smells are messing with my neurons again. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

It’s so fancy, I don’t want to mess it up. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“What if they make a mess in the car?” she tried. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe I told my personal mess to the whole class. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Her hair was a mess, fanning out from the bun at the back, white in the moonlight. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, brother, I tripped on a log back that way. Really messed up my ankle.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“A white woman? Lord,” she moans, “you are making one mess of your life.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s a complex topic, and I’ll be sure to go over painstaking details at a later time, after we clean up the mess you made, but right now...” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She was worried she’d messed up, or that Valley would hate her forever, and she was terrified that she would lose her as a friend just as they were becoming closer. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We servants gather around our mess pot, but no one eats much. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Owning expensive sneakers that I can take out into the world and not keep in a closet, scared that I’ll mess them up. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He stared at the mess for a minute in silence. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Peaches is not the kind of girl to get messed around easy but I was there when her mama told her about Big Joe. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the complexity of the mess Fve dragged everybody into begins to overload my brain, a distant chain of explosions sends a tremor through the room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, I could also be dead, which would seriously mess up my retirement plans. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

"I say, do I look too much of a mess?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, Bri, I don’t. It’s messed up. I’m sick of them making assumptions about us.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but...I told you not to mess this up for me.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then they realize that I’m young and/or messed up, and they move on. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He’s looking at me, too, but he doesn’t seem to be looking at my hair, which is surely a mess, or thinking about the sweat I’m covered in. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Every Monday the card tournament always gets messed up! I quit!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Go back. Just like that. Leave the mess you created behind for someone else to clean up.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A master sergeant had once reported to him that the rumor of his coming had silenced a mess hall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see that when we go underground the clean, dependable lines of the street plan are interlaced with a twisting, turning mess of tunnels. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Without his salve my back would still be a ruined mess, and I don’t think it’s a great leap of reasoning to think that I owe him my life. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Her eyesight was blurry, and all she could make out was a mess of pink and red. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I decided I’d look for Martha on the sidelines before each event, because I knew that if I had her in my line of sight, I wouldn’t mess up. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You guys don’t know about hair trauma. I am a black woman without her grease. My weave is all kinds of messed up right now,” Nicole said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Nah, that story’s just one of those things you tell kids to teach them lessons, isn’t it? ‘Don’t go looking for trouble, don’t pick fights, don’t go messing around with stuff that’s best left alone! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At Nationals, this lack of confidence had messed with my head. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I got drunk and made the mistake of going to Blake Benson’s house. Some stuff set me off, and I just...I really messed up, man.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She looked too sincere to be messing with him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For larger groups, there was a variety of handheld grenades, and many prison mess halls had a special kind of cartridge installed in the ceiling, for quick remote activation in case of disturbance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the new drapes covering the holographic walls, the mess hall was darker and gloomier than it should’ve been, but that couldn’t be helped. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Teresita was only trying to help us get out of this mess unscathed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I shove them both back inside the mess. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

So if football was going to be the thing that took our minds off the mess for at least a few hours, then fine with me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She’d created the whole mess in a daze, hoping for some flicker of inspiration. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry, baby. I tried calling after lunch, but I know it’s not the same. I know I messed up.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s all such a mess. I don’t know how I let myself fall for Phil.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“What kind of freaky mess you talking about?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seanie, JP, and Joey were standing just inside the door, dressed in their shirts and ties, like they had just come from dinner at the mess hall. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was built near the mess hall, class and office buildings, the sports complex, and the boys’ dorm. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, but I’m a mess. And just look at my stockings!” she shrieks, pointing at her shoeless feet. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her long blond hair was a tangled mess, and her blue eyes looked wild. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want nothin’ bad to ever happen to the kids, Mom...I’m so sorry for all I done to mess things up.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

No. This is about not letting people mess with you. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I stepped on its stupid eyes because it was messing with my uncle.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When I laughed, he said, “If you’re not going to make a mess when you eat ribs, you may as well not bother.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She finally had a decent year in the Games with Peeta and me, and now it’s all broken down into a mess that even she can’t put a positive spin on. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

With water siphoned off from the Los Angeles-bound aqueduct, a large farm was under cultivation just outside the camp, providing the mess halls with lettuce, corn, tomatoes, eggplant, string beans, horseradish, and cucumbers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess what messed me up was so many folks coming to call, from right after breakfast on. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My hair was a mess and I was in flip-flops, shorts, and a T-shirt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Hey, come in—just watch your step. Yeah, sorry about the mess.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it really is time to cut it down. No more leaves to rake. No more Wishing Day mess. No more of this...unkindness.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It looks pretty messed up,” Bobby Gene said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

This tree, unlike every other one she’d seen, still had its leaves—a massive cloud of green hanging low over the grassy land and supported by a mess of tangled branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were still wilding and messing with people and putting out squad tracts. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So was the second, but in the third he found something valuable: a mess tin and a box of matches. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’ll be able to figure out this Tyler mess at track practice. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

No total reveal of the mess I’d be if I had to stand up at a podium. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He told us that he had reinstituted assigned seating in the mess halls, so that inmates couldn’t sit wherever they wanted. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched sullenly as he loudly appreciated my gift and made a joyous mess of himself. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom says it’s cheaper, and less mess to clean, to eat fast food. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

If we officers could calmly remain inside the mess hall, we would be more likely to remain safe. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel leaves Frank’s desk and the mess he’s made behind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Like how you love the rain because even though it can make a mess of things, it still makes rainbows rise and flowers grow. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Happy Yulemas indeed! Look at this bed! Look at this mess!” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have the heart to tell him the rest of it—Victor might stop messing with him, but his name will be Charlie the Tuna from here on out. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father makes chicken piccata, which means the kitchen is a mess. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She and Albert figure out that the cookie dough expanded more than we thought it would and that’s why it made such a mess. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

You took care of your own messes, her mom always said, plus she still had to clean up the blood. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“What, you don’t want him messing under your hood again?” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“You the one who pushed me to mess up Miss Saunders’s room, and you were in on it, too—you and the twins,” I say, feeling relieved. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

That it was my turn for everyone to help, and there was no turning back to my old self unless I messed up. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just wanted Mr. Terupt to wake up and fix this mess. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The cafeteria has a whole lot of plastic benches and smells like someone spilled a mess of cleaning products on the floor. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He saw Spitz run out his scarlet tongue in a way he had of laughing; and he saw François, swinging an axe, spring into the mess of dogs. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, does she ever mention those guys? All of that mess. The rumors?” he asked. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Afterward she went about the task of restoring a semblance of order to the mess the police had created. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, if he had made such a mess out of his own life so far, what was the point of implicating others? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows that she didn’t mean to mess everything up and start the day in this way, especially after it was going so well. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It is military conversation really, Like you might have in the mess of a crack cavalry regiment: tactics, small arms, maintenance, betting, famous hunts, wine, women and song. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or while I’m ahead at least. I had you at happily-ever-after a minute ago. I can only mess this up. We should rest.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t try to mess with me again,” I say, “and I promise I’ll let you reset yourself, when all this is said and done. I have no reason not to.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Leo had designed the mess hall’s walls to show real-time scenes from Camp Half-Blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The state racing board, tired of the whole mess, realized that the race’s nonbetting status gave them an out because the public had not been defrauded. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched Seanie get up and walk across the mess hall, stopping for a moment to say something undoubtedly creepy and demented to a group of freshmen, and JP just smiled and shook his head. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Each day brought a new lesson about how to move more efficiently, how not to get slowed down by illness or mess of any kind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter stood on the back porch watching us make a mess of each other. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It’s a big mess and she has to mop it all up. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

If you messed with Toby, Luke came for you. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The 1929 women’s National Air Race was nicknamed the Powder Puff Derby, as if women couldn't take the controls of an aircraft without worrying about messing up their makeup. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“We’re tolerable, sir, I thank you,” replied Grace, lifting the boiling mess carefully on to the hob: “rather snappish, but not ’rageous.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

With my feet wrapped in white, gauzy bandages, I started to put my socks back on, but they were a complete mess. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She’s not about to mess up her bun, nap or not. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“On behalf of the other Messengers I want to congratulate you, and to invite you to join us at one of the Messenger tables for meals. You know—to mess with the Messengers, ha ha!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally a clean and clothed Hagar stood before the two women and said, “I have to buy some clothes. New clothes. Everything I have is a mess.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait in the driveway while he sorts through the mess of a garage, searching for a bicycle. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To be honest, I was relieved that she was only messing with me and that she wasn’t actually a stalker who ruined boys’ lives. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You know, Ice is messing around with the wrong dudes,” she said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But they don’t know what a pathetic mess I turn into when Leroy’s beating on me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m out of practice, retired; it’s been three years, you can’t mess around with these resurrection recipes; one little ingredient wrong, the whole thing blows up in your face.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The dining room is a mess and so is the kitchen, but I barely notice because my thoughts are absorbed with Bo and my first kiss. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Baby Wilson messed around on the front porch—and Baby wasn’t more than four years old. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Here is another situation where repetition is not a rhetorical virtue. Clean up the mess, Mr. Hoodhood,” said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

What Monteverdi did in his madrigals was to take the idea of triads and chords, and start to mess with their chemistry. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The other Marines thought it was funny at the mess hall on Fridays to watch us Navajos come up to be served. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just messing with you. You’re supposed to tell me which one is your house.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Dragons don’t mess with your piddling free will. Pah! Listen to me, boy.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't really have any homeboys in the neighborhood, just because a lot of teenagers around here are messed up these days. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell if he was messing with me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the mess, she saw the drawing of Greenleigh she’d made the other night, June seemed to be using it as an example. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But Violet’s room is the exact opposite of the rest of her house—a beautiful mess of strewn clothes and starry lights and a tangle of chargers under her desk. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In the rainy season, the roads were a muddy mess. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only I’d warned my sisters of La Llorona’s caution to be humble and good, we wouldn’t be in this mess. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Colonel relied so heavily on perfect synchronicity that if one of us messed up even slightly, the endeavor would collapse entirely. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Occasionally she clucked her tongue, or sighed, “Charlie, Charlie, always getting yourself into a mess. When are you going to learn to take care of yourself?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They mess with our stuff, they mess with us.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“That’s impossible. How could a human know about time-stoppage? Anyway, this is no time for theorizing, Foaly. I have less than eight hours to clean up this mess. So what have you got for me?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

At seven, they carried their mess tins, mugs, and cutlery to breakfast. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Would it be messed up if I said it just so I don’t have to live with it alone? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“There’s some protesting going on. Causing a mess of traffic.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He won’t be, once he gets a look at the mess that I am. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m talking to her, not you. You know nothing serious happened. I told her I didn’t want to mess with her but she kept pushing herself on me,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The volunteers continued to pump water to cool off the charred mess. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This won’t do. This isn’t even my trolley. How am I supposed to pass out these pamphlets? What a mess.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I just had these pictures of him walking along with us on patrol or sitting in the mess area, looking down into his coffee cup. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am glad that trial’s over, gladder than I’ve been for anything in a long, long time. Maybe we can finally forget about Emmett Till and that mess up in Money.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“What if I mess it up? What if I’m terrible?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was laughing too, shouting back: “Dude, that’s so messed up!” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Even if I messed up—and now I see that I did—does that change the fact that he did what he did?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get to the kitchen, I find a mess. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I dab a little ketchup at the corners of my mouth, scrape the entire mess into the garbage disposal, turn on the hot water, and flick the switch. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Now, in the mess halls, after a few weeks had passed, we stopped eating as a family. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no one else around, and I could just barely hear the sounds of the students who were still having dinner in the mess hall. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe he needed someone to talk to, and Ivy knew what it was like to have a tornado mess up her house and even her family. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Zara messed up, I know. She should have listened better, she shouldn’t have acted that way with Leo, and she always blows up too fast. But please don’t be angry with her, okay?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His shadow seemed as big as Father’s, and I was lost in the whole mess of gray. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

If he wasn’t dead, he was seriously messed up. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

If anyone still messed with me, I could kick them off the planet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A lot of the stuff that gives my neighborhood a bad name, I don't really mess with. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But glancing around, I saw a mess of logs and brush on the other side and remembered the deep hole there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, about the money. If you make that much money there’s bound to be a mess.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Clean up this mess,” he ordered, and he marched away, leaving us to carry away our own dead. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because it sounded super hard to figure all that out, and what if I messed up? Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Petrificus Totalus!” screamed Hermione from out of sight, and the Death Eater fell forward like a statue to land with a crunching thud on the mess of broken china, table, and coffee. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Walensky shrugged and fired a cigar, “Smooth as butter. What’s going on anyway, Doc? First, there’s no work for three days and then we have this mess of jiggers.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

See, when you look back, it automatically knocks your stride off and it gets you messed up mentally. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

By sinking the Coral Queen, my father himself had managed to make quite a mess. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be almost an hour before he pulls a crew out of that mess. Cook will get you some breakfast.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spun and lunged at imaginary enemies in the dark, yelling at the rocks and the sky and at the water, “Get away! Don’t mess with me!” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Ever since then, Uncle Basil makes a point to park his truck right in front of their house whenever he can, just to mess with them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was near tears now, a mess of frustration and rage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After that mess in the parking lot, Dad has been extra attentive, almost tiptoeing around me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I smiled to show him that Victor was just messing around, but he wouldn’t even look at me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to let this fool girl mess things up for us. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t mess with anybody or even make any eye contact. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was a mess when I went into Burton’s and picked up one of my unclaimed Trazon prescriptions and I was a mess when I came out. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“If chosen as Miss Teen Dream, I will not let the bad people mess with our pretty. Their outfits are wrong. They’re not good people. Tonight on Patriot Daughters!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

No one at school would mess with me if I were like him. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He looked so mean and deadly that, as his large, scaly, muscled hands were being gloved, I had second thoughts about wanting to mess with him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tension in the mess hall was like an electrical storm brewing, which was totally possible, considering Percy’s and Jason’s powers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

During evening chow, in fact, I kept staring across the mess hall at Bobby Jorgenson, and when he finally looked up at me, almost nodding, I came very close to calling it quits. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hoping like hell he didn’t say something to mess it all up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

By then, our dresses were a mess from riding around on our laps all day. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, two, and on three, he swung his whole body, a kind of broke-down golf swing, the mess whipping from the shovel head. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Yep. Sort out this whole mess before it gets out of hand in the rays of the sun.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He looks up at her, and behind her, at the sky, which holds more stars than he ever has seen at one time, crowded together, a mess of dust and gems. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I think maybe Citra is messing with you, too. Have you even considered that?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The mess was just working on my cap like a bad toothache or something. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I like Yolanda, and even though were not quite friends yet, we are friendly and I don’t want to mess it up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Once I would have focused on the excitement, the hazard; now it’s the mess, the bother. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Leah, she knows she messed up. She was upset. She said something stupid. Can you please just let her apologize?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tate talking all that mess about how my life is going to get messed up and about what kind of family I’m going to have. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

From that day on, no one messed with her. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

To Milo, who had been gullible enough to volunteer for it, the position of mess officer was a sacred trust. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But Keith’s work area stood out, for two reasons: He had a bigger cubicle, reflecting his status as a senior analyst and lead engineer, and his space appeared to be a mess. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mariam set about cleaning up the mess, marveling at how energetically lazy men could be. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They won’t care that my life is a mess and I had every right to be mad. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

What a mess I have made of his beautiful Games with the clever ticking clock and the field of victors. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I really messed up when I laughed at her. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

According to Temp, the deacons voted to put it in the church records that “Mary Willis Blakeslee has swapped her religious birthright for a mess of matrimonial pottage.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We ordered a whole mess of chicken strips and three large milkshakes. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

After that was the whole mess with the men at the Esso station. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And who was going to transform this mess into a thing of educational beauty? The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

‘You want to see the mess my mom was talking about?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I can’t keep up with names. They send us new kids all the time. The community service program with the school is a mess,” she said. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I just keep thinking that whenever I write something, it turns into a big mess. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

When she saw the mess on the floor inside my apartment she didn’t say anything about it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“His house wasn’t wiped out, but they can’t stay in it right now. The roof is messed up. And they think he broke his arm.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I did not want to settle in, and I also did not want the rug rats messing with my few possessions. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Not only did they make me feel like an exotic animal, but they also messed up my hair. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you messing around over there. Them old trees aren’t for playing on. You liable to hurt yourself.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We stayed in the mess and misery of the house only as long as we had to, trading our wet clothes for dry, finding our shoes, trying not to look at anything else. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Hell, no. He just messing with my momma.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Please. I know I messed up. But you can’t tell anyone else about the Hideout. It’s supposed to be a secret.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the king of Athens was invited to the mess hall for a ‘get to know you’ meeting. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And the reason we’re laughing is ’cause we always mess around like this after school. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I could hear the guys upstairs noisily getting ready to storm the mess hall. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But, Ruti, just look at the mess we made. Look at me.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I race home, hoping no one notices the bawling brown girl with a tangled mess of wet hair. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Yer a mess!” said Hagrid gruffly, brushing soot off Harry so forcefully he nearly knocked him into a barrel of dragon dung outside an apothecary. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But my mind is a frantic mess of worries that pull me awake each time I drift off. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Our mess tent, a cavernous canvas structure, was furnished with an enormous stone table, a stereo system, a library, and solar- powered electric lights; an adjacent communications tent housed a satellite phone and fax. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered who was going to pick up all that mess. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And then she cried angrily, “You stop it now, you’ll mess it all up.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Renee stretched her neck to see what was happening, and once she saw the mess, she just tightened her lips and shook her head. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean to mess up your show.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Plus it’d be messed up if somebody who was God only cared about seeing people who did everything right, or rich people, or smart people. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Safer has completely messed up the nonexistent feeling I was going for. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was a boy of perhaps six years, sturdy and fair, his clothes torn, his face covered with a sticky mess of fruit. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Like fierce. Like nobody messes with her, right?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I guess with me gone and Mama always at work, there’s no one around to make any messes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Brought some snacks. You gotta be sick of this hospital mess by now.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Eh, well . . . Zeus insists on certain rules. Hands off, when there’s a human quest. Even when something really major is wrong. But nobody messes with my baby sister. Nobody!’ The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Robin would just think I was messing with her. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mama gestured at the mess of boxes stacked in unstable piles throughout the living room. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But when one did come, we were in a mess. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, let’s sort this mess out once and for all. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I shiver and pour most of the soggy mess down the disposal, then set the bowl on the floor. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She stood at the doorway, horrified by the mess. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The guilt comes in with the waking up, and through the fog inside me, I feel terrible that I’ve made such a mess. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Its shell was so pale that she could see the mess of the inner workings. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to figure a way out of this mess. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I knew I would have to have a reserve messing around with him. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I walk back toward the stack of mess pots waiting to be scrubbed. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He had had several messes with the police, mostly in gambling raids, and regarded them as the natural hazards of Negro life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We’d helped them clean up the mess in the yard, me stacking plates and cups and Zach folding up card tables. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know you would never approve of messing with someone else’s property. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I had been trying to get the mud from my boots, gave it up, and went to the mess tent. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Hudson and Harriett are going to be my friends again and not just because they were the only people I could turn to after messing things up with Arthur, Dylan, and Samantha. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Because they attracted sharks, and people thought they made a loud mess of the harbor.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z