How to Use badly in a Sentence

badly

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• She wanted the job badly.
• I'm badly in need of a vacation.
• He played badly but I played even worse.
• His fingers were badly frozen.
• The failure reflects badly on the administration.
• The game flipped – and badly – quickly on the Brewers in this one.
  — Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2023
• When the smoke cleared, the tree was still standing, but it had been badly charred.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
• How could a No. 7 seed be crushing the No. 2 seed so badly?
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
• It's become a test of how badly a coach wants this job, but that was one of the goals all along.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Feb. 2023
• The one story nobody has is the time he got beat badly.
  — Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023
• The beach near the tracks has eroded badly in recent years.
  — Philip Diehl, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
• The Red Sox don't need a starter as badly as the other two Burnes suitors.
  — Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
• Disney fans agree that this section of the park badly needs change.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• Once officers arrived at the scene of the crash, a man, badly injured was found in the scene.
  — The Arizona Republic, 13 Aug. 2023
• In his hard moment, Ovechkin wanted badly to get back on the ice.
  — Stephen Whyno, ajc, 22 Feb. 2023
• Stanford’s defense was so badly stumped, Keister said the field was wide open all the way to the end zone.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023
• The old bull was bleeding badly from a cut in his right shoulder.
  — Anton Money, Outdoor Life, 15 Aug. 2024
• On a day when emotions were high and Brady was back in the house, the Patriots stumbled badly from the blocks.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• In the last five losses, ASU has been beaten, in many cases badly, on the boards.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
• One of the reasons people behaved so badly, of course, was the color of their skin.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
• Meanwhile, the Vikings have won nine of their past ten games, but have been badly outgained in three straight.
  — cleveland, 11 Dec. 2022
• Givens opened the door and jumped out, rolling onto the street, badly scraping her arms, legs and stomach.
  — John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
• In the weeks before Oct. 7, Abu Awad had been planning to work on his house, which was badly damaged in a storm.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• How badly did coach Tom Izzo need these wins if at all?
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
• Photos showed the silver car with a badly mangled roof and the windshield crushed flat.
  — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
• The Warriors had hustled down the floor for a final shot, but David Mack’s wild 3-point try missed badly.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Feb. 2024
• Ravens 17, Falcons 13: Even a Ravens team struggling this badly shouldn’t lose to the Falcons.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 23 Dec. 2022
• Hundreds were killed and thousands injured, and huge swaths of the city were badly damaged.
  — NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• If that target is right, short sellers will be badly burned.
  — Peter Cohan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
• The painful chapter had ended badly, with the last American personnel scrambling onto helicopters on the U.S. Embassy roof.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 28 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025