1. She wrote it hastily and messily on a scrap of paper.

2. Messily directed by John Schlesinger, it fails to evoke admiration or sympathy for its characters.

3. Yorick had disembowelled himself, messily but effectively, with his samurai sword.

4. Too much scholarship has shown that technologies and systems are (messily) shaped by social movements and events and governments, political ideas and freak accidents.

5. He eats gratefully, messily, his hands touching the invisible,() marvellous food in the darkness.

6. Rossi spat very deliberately, and very messily , upon Durieux 's party card.

7. Of course, the young man reveals himself as a boor, and pays rather messily for it.

8. Under a treasury secretary whom Wall Street trusted less, this dancing on the wire could well have ended messily.

9. That was who it must have been, for their faces were messily multicoloured.

10. All the while, the clock is ticking: within a month or so, Greece must receive fresh funds from the IMF and its European rescuers—or messily default.

11. Suddenly a gust of wind, blew these lines, then one messily , two.

12. It is all too easy to imagine Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton disagreeing messily.

13. I cut my first cake in my life time, even I made it cut messily .

14. It is convenient for university students to borrow books from opening shelves to utilize documents and materials. But it is also becoming serious trouble of putting the books on the shelves messily.

15. Her blonde hair was cropped and fashionably arranged to look messily elegant.

16. But when the Dutch coalition cabinet fell on February 20th it was done messily and in public—and the ripples were felt as far away as Afghanistan, drawing the world's attention.

17. Jun buried her face in Ken's wings as the thing began to feed messily.