Mess, confusion

Usage examples of mix-up.

The Marines at Ewa saw a Dauntless which was probably his, in a twisting, swirling, low altitude mix-up with two or three Zeros, fixed and free guns all firing at once.

There was a brief mix-up, and the next thing one observed was Spode on the ground, looking like a corpse which had been in the water several days.

The lawyer who drew the will became angrily defensive when questioned about the possibility of a mix-up of the two bequests, with Brownpony supposed to get the women.

After the ketchup and marshmallow mix-up, Gabe was almost afraid to ask.

Perhaps she had the HI genes and there had been a mistake in the original specimen, a mix-up perhaps, or bad reagents, misapplication of current to the electrophoresis column: any sort of thing like that.

Now, as I understand it, this Wyrm fella is sorta like a mix-up between Satan and Jack the Ripper, with all the charm of Adolf Hitler.

She said that story was borscht, a mix-up from the ghost story about the duke.

Apparently there has been an administrative mix-up over the dates and durations of some of the postings, and we'd like to get it straightened out.

The rest of the day's journeys, it seemed, had for once gone uneventfully to plan: no mix-ups over time, no engine troubles, no equipment or attendants left behind.

There were some mix-ups in his records, which cost him money and led to much dispute with the VA.

It's more like mix-ups, and most of it is due to her not speaking English that well, as you may have noticed.

But none of the army's various components was as plodding or trouble-plagued as the pack train, which lumbered through the pass with an agonizing lack of progress, stopped every few minutes by broken wheels and axles, by the constant need for an untangling of traces and the watering of animals, and by collisions, mix-ups, and traffic jams of all sorts.

It turned out to have all been an unfortunate mix-up, he said, completely poker-faced, but it took some time to clear up.