mess about in English

loiter, remain idle in one place

Use "mess about" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "mess about" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "mess about", or refer to the context using the word "mess about" in the English Dictionary.

1. Don't mess about my bags.

2. They really don't mess about.

3. Don't mess about with those hooligans.

4. Don't mess about with married women, it's unlawful.

5. Don't mess about with my camera - you'll break it.

6. You'll never finish this job if you mess about.

7. Jack warned him not to mess about with married women.

8. He didn't trust Lee not to mess about with it.

9. You'd better not mess about in the affairs of others.

10. Friends stay friends because they don't mess about in each other's lives.

11. I like to mess about in my little boat on the river.

12. If it's good you don't mess about it ; you just enjoy it.

13. His food came - they don't mess about here and he reached for the salt.

14. Come on, you guys, - start doing some work, don't just mess about all day!

15. In the majority of cases, the user will not want to mess about converting data from one format to another.

16. Don't mess about with fireworks and always let an adult light them if you're going for a small family display.

17. If at some point I've given you the impression that I don't know exactly what's going on around here, or that I'm some thick cunt you mess about, I apologize.

18. The maker of Kings and Queen and My Golden Days presents a multi-character mess about a film-maker (Mathieu Amalric, Desplechin’s regular alter-ego) trying to sort his work, his women (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marion Cotillard) and the Besiegings

19. First, a runaway population boom that produces each year a cohort of first-time jobseekers; next, a severe economic crisis, verging on recession, that wiped out the modern sector’s absorptive capacity; finally, a mass rural exodus forcing many to come “mess about” in the cities.