How to Use badly in a Sentence

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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.
• Have any relationship stand-up jokes gone down badly with your boyfriend?
  — Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2022
• Meanwhile, the Vikings have won nine of their past ten games, but have been badly outgained in three straight.
  — cleveland, 11 Dec. 2022
• Their responses show that police are falling down badly on their duty to inspect gun dealers every year.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
• Sources told the outlet the rocker’s body was badly decomposed by the time it was finally found on Tuesday.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 30 Nov. 2024
• Deep Democratic depression Democrats didn't just lose badly.
  — Dave Lawler, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
• Hundreds of his cartoons showed couples at a crossroads — often somewhere in middle age — with the man usually the one behaving badly.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2022
• Playing three games in four days, including a back-to-back against the Clippers and the Lakers, Mazzulla missed the mark as badly as his team.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• What’s more, sectors that are expected to do well or badly based on a president’s policies have sometimes gone the opposite way, according to Adam.
  — Greg Iacurci,lorie Konish, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
• McCoy felt badly for his good friend Murray, expressing that, then blamed himself for missing some opportunities for big plays.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2022
• The organization’s command-and-control capabilities are shattered, and many of its best fighters have been killed or badly wounded.
  — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2024
• Still, a ruling by the appeals court striking down the charge would badly damage the cases against as many as 290 defendants who have been indicted on the obstruction count.
  — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024