In one corner of the first-class saloon was the wardroom, a space partitioned off by painted canvas screens to provide messing accommodation for the more senior officers.
I ain't agoing messing around through the water with no mermaid.
How are folks like us to get mixing and messingwith the drinks of they?
Do you think as I wants dirty thumbs shewing all over the clean net what I've washed and dried and ironed, and been a-messing about with since 'twas light?
O do come and talk to me again and leave off messing with the old silk.
And that's what I calls it, this messing about with dancing and music and I don't know what.
Mr. Messing was the first to make inquiries about it, and bought it, highly rejoiced at having a Stradivarius at last.
Mr. Messing is now cured of his prejudice, and is no longer looking for a Stradivarius violin.
At these words Mr. Messing stood as if thunderstruck, and in his bewilderment he tried in every way to convince Gemuender that he was mistaken, but failing in this attempt, his discomfiture was complete.
But it was not according to Mayo's calculation, messing with steamboat men.
Now, what did ye come on board here for, messing into my affairs?
He had been “messing about” among the gold-diggings of Cape Horn.
He and I met first at Punta Arenas--when I was messing about after the beach gold--and we became like brothers.
While they are messing about here we shall have a plentiful supply of liquor, food stuff, and tobacco from the schooners.
After I struck him, while he was messing about with his knife, he said: 'I'll do time for you!
Albert was messing about the buggy in leisurely fashion.
As a spokesman for the Personnel and Administration Division put it in a 1946 address, the Army was "not now ready to mix Negro and white personnel in the same company or battery, for messing and housing.
While training classes and other duty activities were integrated, sleeping and messing facilities were segregated.
Mrs. Wilcox, some artist friends, and I are messing over in one of the old quarters, and our mid-day dinner is waiting.
He cursed himself for a spineless ineffectual--messing about with nerves when he had been lucky enough to come through four years of war with his full complement of limbs and faculties unimpaired.
This keeps you from accidentally messingup the system, and if the computer is a public one (such as at an office or school), it keeps users from messing up the system on purpose.
He was standing at the chest of drawers, confound him, messing about with my ties.
By courtesy of a group of officers we are messing at a house with a particularly noisome front-door gutter and the Most Beautiful Girl in France to wait on us.
But the only steamer offering from New Orleans was so small, and the messing arrangements so primitive, that I abandoned the idea, railed to New York, saw a steamer starting for the Bermudas and joined her.
I also got infinitely bettermessing than any hotel in Panama afforded.
With regard to officers, “stoppages” for messing was on the scale already mentioned.
Evening had far advanced when we arrived on our camping-ground; tents were far behind; so were the messing arrangements.
This, combined with the depreciation in the paper money, kept prices very high and made messing a great problem; if parcels could have got through more quickly from home it would have made a big difference.
Unfortunately, this was much the best repast we obtained from the contractor, and when it came to arranging a daily messing scheme we had to be content with a very moderate programme.
If we all go messing around with it in the dark, half the shots won't fire, and we may have an accident.
To think of me messing away my life in a tenth-story office worrying about other people's business and quarrels!
Having only one officer with us, and being a reasonable distance from headquarters, we have been spared a great deal of the "messing about" which seems to be the special fate of the Imperial Yeomen.
I did not get enough fighting, but too muchmessing about.
He's always messing about somewhere below, with a bag full of tools.
He was always messing about down there in his pantry, and once I distinctly heard knocking there, and when I went down to see, whom should I meet?
And how can you be messing with that wet mud when my heart is breaking!
I would have made you a king, and by and by the most powerful of all kings, but you followed after your own thinking, and cared more for messing in wet mud than for a throne.
He presides at the head of the Ward-room officers' table, who are so called from their messing together in a part of the ship thus designated.
At last he chucked the handcart altogether, though he went on messing with me and living in my shed, his Kanaka practice growing very extensive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "messing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
