1.   He left the bathroom in a terrible mess, with water slopped all over the floor and the towel sopping.

2.   Her office is a terrible mess - there are piles of papers all over the floor.

3.   It is hard to believe that you will be able to make something happen to get you out of this terrible mess.

4.   Not yet a terrible mess, but a vaguely irritating, vaguely disquieting, formless mess.

5.   The economy is in a terrible mess.

6.   The economy is still in a terrible mess.

7.   The Government have capitulated on principle, but they have made a terrible mess of translating the principle into practice.

8.   Trying to take off our socks first will cause a terrible mess.

9.   When are you going to clean out your room - it is in a terrible mess!