How to Use bad in a Sentence

bad

1 of 2 adjective

• 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
• Still, Trump thinks this is a bad deal, to say the least.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 11 July 2018
• And as for the price: Well, three out of four isn't bad.
  — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 12 June 2020
• For better or worse, that set the tone for the rest of the half.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Those days are no longer, and that's not such a bad thing.
  — Yec, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• The dump site was pretty close to town, so the smell was kind of bad.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2019
• In boom times, that might not seem like such a bad thing.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
• The world has changed a lot since then — for better and for worse.
  — Bruce Deboskey, The Denver Post, 8 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
• There are good vibes, bad vibes, and just plain old vibes.
  — Longreads, 19 Apr. 2022
• For now, take a look through the good, bad, and messy of this week in fashion.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 7 Jan. 2023
• Those rates are bad enough, but worse lurks in the details.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2021
• And this one stat shows just how bad these two matchups were.
  — For The Win, 21 Dec. 2017
• 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
• That’s not to say that handling projects in-house is a bad idea.
  — Vito Vishnepolsky, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• As a girl in racing, there’s good and bad that goes with that.
  — Andy Frye, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• Though no one knew it at the time, that would be as bad as things would get.
  — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2020

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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 whose rushing attack ranked 32nd in the league a year ago.
  — Bob McManaman, azcentral, 1 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Apart from all the hurricane of all that fire coming up real bad.
  — Mark Phillips, CBS News, 5 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There was a definite feeling of having been good-cop-bad-copped that evening.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• Straight men are, the old chestnut goes, bad at expressing themselves.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Feb. 2018
• 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
• And nothing ruins an ambiance more than a bad-smelling candle.
  — Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2020
• Drake got this man down bad after responding to a troll’s comment about his son Adonis….
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 4 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 Suns’ interior defense is reliably bad, ranking 28th in the NBA in paint points allowed per game.
  — Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• If this becomes another 218 Arch St., the developer, L&I, the city, everybody is going to look very bad all over.
  — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Composers are notoriously bad at taking a step back from their works.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Humans have no difficulty putting names to colours but are notoriously bad at putting names to odours.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• People might also experience fever, chills, peeing a lot or feeling the urge to pee a lot, burning while peeing, nausea, vomiting, pus in the urine, and cloudy, bad-smelling urine.
  — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 15 Nov. 2021
• Also, if exposed to too much heat, humidity, or other elements, the gummies can go bad faster than the expiration date.
  — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 7 May 2024