How to Use bad apple in a Sentence

bad apple

noun

• The gym is a big place with lots of people, so don’t let one bad apple spoil the bunch.
  — Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2023
• The modern muzzleloaders proved there isn’t a bad apple in the bunch.
  — Brad Fenson, Outdoor Life, 1 Nov. 2023
• Please publish the good news about SSA and stop highlighting the few bad apples.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 16 July 2023
• How do bad apples like the Rick Singers and Lori Loughlins of the world affect everyone else?
  — The Editors, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2023
• Early on, says the owner, a few bad apples booked but never showed.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• These undead cells, called senescent cells, stick around and give off toxic substances that can harm the healthy cells around them—like the one bad apple that spoils the whole bunch.
  — Sonya Collins, Fortune Well, 23 Feb. 2023
• Other crypto companies seem to think that picking out the one bad apple will be good for the rest of the industry.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 4 Nov. 2023
• These boundary-pushing developments aren’t just the work of a few bad apples.
  — Dov Fox, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022
• This kind of online behavior turns people away from new interests, which is bad for them but worse for the group that can’t grow because of a few bad apples.
  — oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2023
• The districts and associations exist to serve the homeowners, and yet a few bad apples have found ways to use the districts to line their own pockets and the pockets of their friends.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 3 May 2024
• There were bad apples in every profession, including finance, but why tear it all down?
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• To focus on a few bad apples and ignore the sacrifices of the many in uniform presents a biased and unfair characterization of law enforcement.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• Potential officers who want to do good work in the community might not apply, while those few bad apples who abuse their authority might be more inclined to do so.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
• Despite the volatility, the sector is rife with bad apples, but its ethos around user privacy has been a resounding attraction for retail investors.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• But hasty and ill judged recruitment decisions can prove to be extremely costly mistakes - one bad apple can have significant repercussions for the whole brand.
  — Fiona Simpson, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Senior military leaders have largely failed to address this behavior, either looking the other way or attributing it to a few bad apples.
  — Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2021
• Large banks that depositors deem too big to fail are siphoning off funds from smaller ones Banks like Citigroup, meanwhile, are claiming the problems are down to a few bad apples that failed to hedge the interest rate risk in their asset portfolio.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023
• Wrongful shootings tend to stem from policies and practices, Thacher said, rather than malicious actions by individual bad apples.
  — Violet Ikonomova, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2024
• But this post was simply inspired by the one bad apple manager that was allowed to dictate her personal agenda, which ended up toppling the company’s efforts in fixing and growing their business.
  — George Deeb, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Early on, these doctors-cum-criminal-profilers explained bad apples through theories such as atavism.
  — WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
• And merely dismissing Charney as an aberrant offender — the one bad apple, good riddance — is a too-tidy conclusion for why these messy, glittering worlds continue to captivate us.
  — Dana Schwartz, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• To soothe fears in the country, Kelleher has said his management team will screen Credit Suisse’s notoriously freewheeling investment bankers to ensure no bad apples make it through the ongoing integration process.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
• Last month, Malaysian youth used Roblox to organize a digital demonstration to support Palestinians—a sensitive issue where the smallest bad apple can potentially ruin the barrel and spark damaging headlines.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• Importantly, the Southern Center never accepted the Supreme Court’s assumption that racial disparities were caused by bad apples, but insisted that an overlapping set of practices led to injustice.
  — Robert L. Tsai / Made By History, TIME, 28 June 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024