MESS in a Sentence

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For MESS, below is one of 58 sentences:
Some of Rhett's taunting words of contempt came back to her and she wondered if indeed Ashley had played the manly part in this mess.

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 Meanings and Examples of MESS
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mess
 n.  soft semi liquid food; a quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for one meal
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  She would forgive him anything if he got them out of this mess.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  The soldiers mixed their ration of corn meal with water, and salt too when they could get it, wrapped the thick paste about their ramrods and roasted the mess over camp fires.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  "This is a fine mess," thought Scarlett dejectedly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  He had already made a perfect mess on the hearth rug but they did not seem to have noticed it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
5  It all seemed a terrible mess now and she half heartedly wished she had said nothing about it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
6  Some of Rhett's taunting words of contempt came back to her and she wondered if indeed Ashley had played the manly part in this mess.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
7  She felt that she would stifle if she stayed in Atlanta another day, with her tired mind forcing itself round and round the deeply worn circle of futile thoughts about the mess she was in.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
8  Even the cabin table itself had been knocked into kindling-wood; and the cabin mess dined off the broad head of an oil-butt, lashed down to the floor for a centrepiece.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor.
9  They were the Socialists; and it was a devil of a mess, said "Bush" Harper.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
10  That was a pretty mess, indeed.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
11  An these here hull woods is a reg'lar mess.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
12  If a herd of buffaloes had passed along there could not be a greater mess.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
13  Mr. Harthouse, I am in a horrible mess.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
14  Having dispelled the cold, he turned eagerly to the smoking mess which was placed before him, and ate with a haste and an apparent relish, that seemed to betoken long abstinence from food.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  I don't like to think too much about you, in my head, that only makes a mess of us both.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  That will mess up the whole analysis.
2  He never got too bothered about the mess.
3  Don't mess with me,tell me the truth.
4  She needn't worry that he'll think she looks a mess.
5  Don't mess about with my camera - you'll break it.
6  He got another chance and didn't want to mess up again.
7  He looked a complete mess - dressed anyhow with hair sticking up on end.
8  Getting out of this mess was going to require a fair degree of ingenuity.
9  The government has dismissed criticisms that the country's health policy is a mess.
10  Her hair was a tangled mess.
11  They left the house in a frightful mess.
12  However you look at it, it's still a mess.
13  You can't imagine what a mess the house was in after the party.
14  He made a frightful mess in the kitchen.
15  When politicians mess things up, it is the people who pay the price.