How to Use botched in a Sentence

botched

adjective
  • The botched punt did not alone spell doom for the Hurricanes.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The Browns had two second-half turnovers and a botched snap on a punt in the fourth quarter.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Restoring botched brows can be a major pain in the… arch.
    Paige Stables, Allure, 30 June 2022
  • The drive stalled, and a botched punt attempt turned into a turnover on downs.
    Dave Woodall, NOLA.com, 3 Oct. 2020
  • This wasn’t a typical botched game from the Knicks of the recent past.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • With Herbert in his NFL debut, the risk for a botched play went up.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
  • There was the mother of Demetrius Hill, who said her son died in a botched police raid in 1997.
    Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The Lions scored early with a safety on a botched punt.
    Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Teri is a small but sure Iowan, a rancher’s wife, legally blind from a botched eye surgery.
    Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • Video of one such sequence — a botched dunk attempt in a Feb. 28 win over the Austin Spurs — went viral.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2021
  • There weren’t any botched snaps or holds on anyone’s end, as the special teams unit came through big time.
    Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Watch Gage discuss the group chat — and how a botched botox procedure made one of his eyes droop for six weeks — in the clip above.
    Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Riverside opened the scoring with safety on a botched punt snap.
    cleveland, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The Bulldogs kicked a botched punt snap out of the end zone, and the Pirates notched a tackle in the end zone on a kickoff return.
    Michael Osipoff, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • These are the first federal charges brought against any of the officers involved in the botched 2020 raid.
    Sonia Moghe, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The problems with Goines’s cases came to light after last year’s botched drug raid.
    Manny Fernandez, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2020
  • And Lindor’s botched play at shortstop was part of the mud underneath.
    Stefan Bondy, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2022
  • The three felony charges from the botched attempt to arrange his own death could bring up to 20 years in prison if he's convicted.
    CBS News, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The police called the crime a botched robbery, based on Mr. Hein’s description of the incident.
    New York Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Taylor, 26, was killed in March during a botched raid on her apartment.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2020
  • What looked to fans in Chavez Ravine like a botched double-steal attempt in the bottom of the fourth inning did not cost the Dodgers the game on Sunday.
    Mike Digiovanna Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
  • In the very botched words of Paul McCartney: Let your portfolio be.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Mary's botched surgery was one of several in Christopher's record.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Taylor was shot and killed by Louisville police in 2020 during a botched raid on her apartment.
    Thomas Birmingham, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2022
  • Nacho is still on the run after the botched attempt on Lalo’s (Tony Dalton) life.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The botched aid response after the 2010 earthquake made headlines.
    NBC News, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Again, this was a tricky task as just one botched shape or small mistake meant destroying the whole design.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Yurovsky and his men then made a botched attempt to incinerate the bodies of Maria and Alexey.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
  • One of its reaction wheels (a type of gyroscope) malfunctioned after a botched restart from an earlier incident on April 8th.
    Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 9 May 2024
  • But the board quickly reversed itself after then-attorney general Ken Cuccinelli said his office would not defend board members if they were sued over a botched procedure.
    Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024

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