170 examples of bungle in sentences

Little ElizabethI smile to write her name upon the page with theseit were a shame to cheat of beauty by any bungle of description.

The very best I could do would be to shoot myself" "But" "And I might bungle even that!"

A slip by a careless, laughing, fashionable young amateur amusing his social equals at a house party is excusable; a bungle by a hired professional meant an end to hope in that direction.

I had a horrible suspicion for a moment that you were a Scotland Yard man, and were going to bungle the whole business by arresting Hoffman.

V. be unskillful &c adj.; not see an inch beyond one's nose; blunder, bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip; hobble &c 275; put one's foot in it; make a mess of, make hash of, make sad work of; overshoot the mark. play tricks with, play Puck, mismanage, misconduct, misdirect, misapply, missend.

"I'm going to holler awful, and make you sit up and tell me about that little boy that ate the giant, and Cinderella,how she lived in the stove-pipe,and that man that builded his house out of a bungle of straws: andwell, there's some more, but I don't remember 'em just now, you know.

he does not mock me; y'ad lost indeed; I do not use to bungle.

All agree that it is a bungle,the fault of maladministration and want of tact.

I should only bungle it.

I have been down the river three or four times already with some other freshmen, and it is glorious exercise, that I can see, though we bungle and cut crabs desperately at present.

The next two rising fish are too much for us, and we bungle them.

They had watched them bungle badly in the Japanese war, ten years before.

She'll bungle it,' I said to myself.

"That we bungle it so!

We all bungle it!

Now, don't bungle it.

" "Well, sister, as I have remarked," said the monk, "I could not order my speech to propose anything of this kind to a young maid; I should so bungle that I might spoil all.

He did not want to bungle it and lose his revenge and his life too.

his mother asked, trying to pull on her stockings, and in her trepidation jamming her toes into the heel, and drawing her shoe over the bungle thus made at the bottom of her foot.

And right here I want to apologize to the town for making a bungle of killing Swift!"

Would Ramon bungle it by calling out, or would he have nerve enough to make an end of it on the instant?

Instead they stumble, fumble and bungle as their system flounders into one disastrous crisis after another.

The jealous old sheep should see that I do not need to bungle another person's composition in order to show off my own.'

He could adroitly increase the acute anguish which had, as a point of honour, to be endured without cry or complaint; or he could coolly bungle the execution of the design, or leave it unfinished, and betake himself to a more generous customer.

She sat down upon a rock and watched Casey distractedly bungle his cooking.

170 examples of  bungle  in sentences