That would mean a messy end for Blade.

This was a messy and unexpected end for the man after he had managed to survive the crash of the ship.

Just a few years ago he had finally settled in the small Florida town where it all came to a messy and predictable end.

The counterculture, which many baby boomers saw as a bright beginning, came to a messy end.

But his hustling days came to a messy end, and between 1994 and 2003, he served six years in prison for drug-related offenses.

She left the talks with a messy end and, Administration officials acknowledged, a significant loss of impetus in solving the conflict.

He didn't deal with the messy end of the business.

And how did Shohei meet such a messy end?

She swore when the tortoise-shell pick snagged in a messy end composed of tangled hair, dirt and two small branches.

You won't see a zaibatsu come to a messy end, will you?