Sentence examples for messier from high-quality English sources.

• Mr Messier fouled up.

• But R0 is messier than it might look.

• Our house with six in has suddenly gotten a whole lot messier!

• As advertising money has flocked to Facebook, it has become messier and messier.

• Both Mr Mattis and Mr Messier will be speaking at the AIPAD symposium.

• This messier tale exposes the hypocrisy of people who fought in the name of liberty while denying it to others.

• A French court froze a euro20m ($23m) severance package awarded to Jean-Marie Messier, former boss of Vivendi Universal.

• It ends up crowning some figures and crowding out others, distorting a reality that’s far richer and messier in practice.

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• To capture the image, astronomers reached across intergalactic space to Messier 87, or M87, a giant galaxy in the constellation Virgo.

• But though the Milky Way, the Earth’s home galaxy, has more than 150 globular clusters, so far only a single planet has been spotted in one: Messier 4 (see picture).

• Like Mr Messier, Mr Middelhoff liked to brag that, although European by birth, he was an American at heart, and thus not only a cannier businessman but a cooler one too.

• Mr Messier showed signs of feeling the pressure when he claimed, bizarrely, not to have destroyed shareholder value because he had paid for deals in shares rather than cash.

• In total, eight observatories on four continents were used to hunt for the black hole in Messier 87, including two, in Antarctica and Chile, that enjoy particularly dry skies.

• Even the industry’s most optimistic advocates – the lab-grown meat startups themselves – admit that the immediate future of animal-free meat is likely to be on the messier end of the spectrum.

• The idea is to avoid what Hoffman calls marathon cleaning — ie, you let your home get messier and messier (and messier) until it reaches the point where you can barely breathe.

• A courageous, insightful and affecting debut novel—and the winner of the prestigious JCB prize for Indian literature—which places a naive upper-class woman from southern India in the midst of far messier realities in Kashmir.

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• The first record of a globular cluster, in the constellation Sagittarius, dates to 1665 (it was later named Messier 22); the next, Omega Centauri, was recorded in 1677 by the English astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley.

• The reality is messier: different branches evolve at different rates; new traits can emerge several times independently; splits can be dragged out over millennia and across continents, with populations diverging and then interbreeding again.

• Vivendi Universal refused to give details of a criminal investigation launched by American federal prosecutors, but it is thought to centre on alleged accounting irregularities under Jean-Marie Messier, a former boss of the French media conglomerate.

• But alongside this cartoon-simple narrative—a lit match, a fire, and then, one of the single deadliest migrant-ship disasters on record—there is also a messier hypothesis for what’s behind Lampedusa’s tragedy: not a burning blanket but an incendiary debate about European immigration policy.