How to Use muddle through in a Sentence

muddle through

verb
  • Brazil boomed for decades, but decades of sub-par muddling through followed.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Sooner or later, the state will need to do more than just muddle through.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But the Lionesses have found ways to muddle through and move on.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Japan muddled through decades of low growth and high debt with a good standard of living and not much job loss.
    — Allison Schrager, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Trump won’t be able to muddle through with a pretend-and-extend approach to the cease-fire.
    — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • For now, the focus is finding a way to muddle through well enough to keep Ukraine in the fight.
    — Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The idea is to thrive through this challenging period, not just muddle through.
    — Erin Hutchinson, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • For many of us, this year’s Christmas will mean finding a way to muddle through somehow.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • While dealing with grief, Fleabag muddles through life and love with a unique wit and a penchant for breaking the fourth wall.
    — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 July 2023
  • So, people are muddling through their conversations and getting a lot wrong.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Ample evidence suggests that Putin will be able to muddle through as usual.
    — Alexander Gabuev, The Atlantic, 29 June 2023
  • Moscow probably still has enough cash reserves to muddle through, but in the short term, there could be pain, analysts said.
    — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • Will Newsom bite the bullet or muddle through the next few years and dump a huge fiscal crisis on his successor?
    — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Will Newsom bite the bullet or muddle through the next few years and dump a huge fiscal crisis on his successor?
    — Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Football—and not just football, but all sports—has a rich tradition of looking the other way and trying to muddle through.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 June 2022
  • His music suggests America will just have to muddle through, and wrestle with its own failure.
    — Jane Levere, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Despite her happy childhood, Dupont watched her friends and classmates who grew up in unstable homes muddle through their youths.
    — Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • But the currency muddled through in recent months as inflation proved more stubborn than many had expected.
    — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 13 July 2023
  • The result is that many could end up muddling through with Charles as king, even if their populations don’t feel a strong affinity for him.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • At least for now, Russia shows every sign of being able to muddle through economically.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Still, there is more hope this time that the seemingly milder Omicron variant will not wreak the same havoc and that schools can muddle through with just a few changes.
    — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2022
  • The optimistic scenario for the Kremlin is that Russians tighten their belts and muddle through.
    — Chris Miller, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Once the show is over, Stomper is on its own once again, muddling through feathers and replicating tricks with a skateboarder leaving the venue.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2023
  • His long record in politics and frequent flip-flops on strategy incline him to procrastinate and muddle through.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Biden's is one of muddling through crises, reacting to unforeseen events, and being trapped by its own biases and assumptions.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Now, those of you who already know the answers and think this is easy, kindly go smugly off to read some other section of the newspaper and leave the rest of us to muddle through.
    — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 23 July 2021
  • There’s growing confidence that Europe can muddle through the next three years, albeit with relatively high and volatile prices.
    — Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • After so much uncertainty, so much muddling through muck, people understandably wanted something clear and clean and good to work and root for.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Without all that, we’d have been forced to somehow muddle through Covid without severe social distancing mandates.
    — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2022
  • This is much easier than trying to muddle through the holiday marketing rush without a clear direction.
    — Yec, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021

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