How to Use bungle in a Sentence

bungle

verb
Definition of bunglenext
Synonyms for bunglenext
  • The government bungled badly in planning the campaign.
  • Yes, some over-the-top bits are lost and missed or slightly bungled.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The tenor Rodell Rosel brought verve and flair to the malicious yet bungling Monostatos.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
  • At the Guthrie, the bauble is bungled, and takes on the second-hand sheen of costume jewelry.
    — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2017
  • The Jets bungled five fourth quarter leads and lost, often with Rodgers, ball in his hands late in the game with a chance to win it.
    — Zack Rosenblatt, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Airlines seem to bungle the answer to this question again and again.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2019
  • But the Browns bungled the technical details of the deal and missed the NFL trading deadline.
    — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Or Sarah Snook’s Shiv, the sharpest of the Roy heirs, who still manages to bungle her own ascension?
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2019
  • George Springer, who had bungled a sinking liner in the top of the inning, crushed a flat first-pitch sinker to left to lead off.
    — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • No team that bungles a game this badly can be a contender.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The Cavs had the right approach for this matchup, but bungled a few too many of their defensive exchanges.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 1 June 2018
  • In the movie, hit man Shane Stant bungles his way through the attack, breaking a locked glass door with his head to escape and drive off.
    — Sarah Caldwell, Cosmopolitan, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Other members of the board wanted to make sure the state didn’t bungle the reopening.
    — Kiera Feldman, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
  • The trio also proved pivotal to the film's plot, bungling two attempts to kill off lion cub Simba.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2018
  • The small East Texas city of Palestine bungled its first remote meeting on March 23.
    — Jessica Priest, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
  • But this year’s Academy Awards felt more like an effort to just get through the night without bungling one more thing.
    — Ben Fritz, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2019
  • Having now bungled the Reed cast and his promise to Deb, Harry hits his old haunt to drink his sorrows away.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 3 Jan. 2025
  • But the pair of vicious idiots bungle the job and wind up killing Helaena and Aegon’s young son, Jaehaerys.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 5 July 2024
  • Indeed, the offseason still could turn out to be a failure if the team bungles the next several months.
    — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 June 2018
  • If any of that is true, this whole thing is a house of cards, and the Dolphins badly bungled the quarterback position.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2024
  • In the first quarter, running back C.J. Prosise bungled a pass on the 3 yard line that likely would have produced six points.
    — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Other missteps have amounted to six years of bungling the KCI discussion.
    — Steve Vockrodt and Lynn Horsley, kansascity.com, 25 June 2017
  • It's been a whole year since Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) bungled his chance to take over his father's company one and for all.
    — Alexis Jones, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Just about every detail of the plan was ill conceived and would be grotesquely bungled in practice.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Just about every detail of the plan was ill conceived and would be grotesquely bungled in practice.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Peter Van Sant: Can it not be argued that … some of the evidence in this case was indeed bungled?
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • This is unequivocal good news for D.C. Let’s not let the Beltway boors bungle this.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • Starting quarterbacks are the Jenga piece that can’t be bungled, and only so many come ready-made.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Plus, there's a higher chance that snow and ice could bungle flight operations.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2023
  • As so often, Mr Trump has identified a genuine challenge, but is bungling the response.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018

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