How to Use bungled in a Sentence

bungled

adjective
  • The scene, a bungled reflection on wish fulfillment, brought the pop show to a screeching halt.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Apr. 2026
  • An easy, breezy Sunday turned dark in the seventh inning, when a couple slowly rolled singles, a bungled play at second base, a grand slam, two doubles and a walk turned a five-run lead into a two-run deficit.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The championship isn’t even four years on from bungled officiating, ultimately deciding a title.
    — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • An English court has sentenced a West Allis woman to 30 years in prison for her role in a bungled plot to kill a man with whom her online boyfriend had an ongoing beef.
    — Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Otherwise realistic-looking visuals end up pockmarked with bungled street signs and distorted billboards.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • Also killed that day were Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill, two ex-cons whose exploits that day began with a bungled attempt to rob a Coral Gables jewelry store.
    — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Rawlinson has struggled mightily since Alter handed her the reins, most publicly with the bungled hiring and firing of former coach and Hall of Fame player Teresa Weatherspoon.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Employing a cast of non-professional locals, the film playfully interrogates the brutal but bungled occupation while also allowing its actors — many of whom are descendants of the fascists’ victims — to reinterpret and reclaim a chapter in their city’s past.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • From a bungled email prematurely announcing another massive round of layoffs to scrutiny around the company’s $75 million investment in a documentary about the first lady, Amazon heads into its quarterly earnings report next week surrounded by a deafening level of outside noise.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Winter and even hurricane history is replete with bungled responses in cities like New York, where former Mayor Michael Bloomberg famously dismissed the threat posed by Superstorm Sandy once it was no longer formally referred to as a hurricane.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But Alabama has consistently defended its nitrogen gas protocol as an effective and humane alternative to lethal injection, the default execution method that also faced heavy scrutiny in Alabama after multiple bungled execution attempts.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • And even with Republicans in charge, other major GOP figures, such as former Attorney General Pam Bondi, haven't been able to avoid bipartisan votes to drag them to the Capitol to talk about Epstein and the Justice Department's bungled compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026

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