How to Use bad in a Sentence

bad

1 of 2 adjective
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  • The medicine left a bad taste in his mouth.
  • He had a bad day at the office.
  • I was having a bad dream.
  • I have a bad feeling about this.
  • The house is in bad condition.
  • It's a bad time for business right now.
  • Things are looking pretty bad for us at this point.
  • She made a very bad impression on her future colleagues.
  • We've been having bad weather lately.
  • What is the best part of your work...and what is the worst?
    — Allison Carey, cleveland.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • And the problem might be even worse than the study shows.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 4 May 2023
  • Look at the edge of a good and bad spot for these pests near the soil line.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • For better or worse, that set the tone for the rest of the half.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2019
  • These lyrics are deeply revealing for the good and the bad.
    — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • That kind of put a little bit of a bad taste in my mouth.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 16 May 2023
  • And this one stat shows just how bad these two matchups were.
    — For The Win, 21 Dec. 2017
  • In boom times, that might not seem like such a bad thing.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The dump site was pretty close to town, so the smell was kind of bad.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The world has changed a lot since then — for better and for worse.
    — Bruce Deboskey, The Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Still, Trump thinks this is a bad deal, to say the least.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 11 July 2018
  • Those days are no longer, and that's not such a bad thing.
    — Yec, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • Those rates are bad enough, but worse lurks in the details.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2021
  • That would hurt you longer and a lot worse than late payments.
    — Teresa Dixon Murray, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • And as for the price: Well, three out of four isn't bad.
    — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 12 June 2020
  • Though no one knew it at the time, that would be as bad as things would get.
    — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Long spells out of the labor force are bad for workers.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 June 2021
  • There are good vibes, bad vibes, and just plain old vibes.
    — Longreads, 19 Apr. 2022
  • And when times are bad, people want to go out and have fun more.
    — Hector Saldana, ExpressNews.com, 23 June 2020
  • Here's hoping the winds shift and this storm isn't quite that bad.
    — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 9 Apr. 2019
  • Given the thrill that comes with it, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
    — Jared Newman, PCWorld, 21 Apr. 2021
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bad

2 of 2 adverb
  • He hasn't succeeded because he doesn't want it bad enough.
  • Not bad a for a team that has had trouble finding the net all season.
    — Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • This is part of the reason why there are so few bad-sounding earphones on the market.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • Apart from all the hurricane of all that fire coming up real bad.
    — Mark Phillips, CBS News, 5 June 2019
  • As bad a beating as the left took this year, losses may be starker and deeper in years to come.
    — The Economist, 30 June 2018
  • Officers met with three people, one a male who said he bad been robbed by two males with a gun.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • And so all those businesses on the way into Yosemite on the south are hurting pretty bad.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2022
  • And nothing ruins an ambiance more than a bad-smelling candle.
    — Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Straight men are, the old chestnut goes, bad at expressing themselves.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Feb. 2018
  • There was a definite feeling of having been good-cop-bad-copped that evening.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Not bad a for a team whose rushing attack ranked 32nd in the league a year ago.
    — Bob McManaman, azcentral, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The Fed’s bad-tasting medicine may slow it down eventually, but the medicine takes some time to work.
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In particular, be careful about bad-mouthing the other person when a friendship draws to a close.
    — Michelle Icard, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Overripe fruits and vegetables go bad faster, so choose the freshest produce available.
    — Arriana Vasquez Wirecutter, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Composers are notoriously bad at taking a step back from their works.
    — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Drake got this man down bad after responding to a troll’s comment about his son Adonis….
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 4 May 2022
  • Maybe Monday was just one of those random variance bad-shooting nights for the Utah Jazz.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2021
  • It's been nearly two months since Riverdale's season finale aired, and the fans are missing it real bad.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 6 July 2017
  • Things are so bad now, there are so many women just desperately trying to figure out how to be empowered by me.
    — Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Humans have no difficulty putting names to colours but are notoriously bad at putting names to odours.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Staff would discourage a person from chewing on a foreign object by forcing them to hold a coarse rag dipped in a bad-tasting substance in their mouth.
    — State Of Denial, ProPublica, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Kids get a lot of their confidence and sense of self-worth from their families — thus the emphasis on parents’ not bad-mouthing each other.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • And people are pretty good at seeing their own behavior in the best light and pretty bad at seeing an invidious pattern to their assumptions.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • And whether you’re talking oak in wine, pumpkin in coffee, or weed in brownies: too much of a good thing is BAD.
    — Marissa A. Ross, Bon Appetit, 17 Apr. 2017
  • During that same six months, 60 percent of those who said their quality of life was bad or very bad changed their answers to good or very good.
    — Mary Schumacher, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • And mouse studies are notoriously bad at predicting the success of potential treatments in humans.
    — Ars Technica, SELF, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Turns out ants are really bad at picking up on nestmates infected with this particular fungus.
    — Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Then, the chief of staff began ignoring the aide’s phone calls, lying about meetings being canceled, and bad-mouthing her to Sims, according to the complaint.
    — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The parents of the Oxford school shooting suspect have reached their limit with the prosecutor and are asking a judge to sanction her for allegedly ignoring their requests to stop bad-mouthing them and calling them liars.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2022
  • Quinn dumped offensive line coach Ron Prince and replaced him with Jeff Davidson, who has a history of turning around bad running teams.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2018

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