How to Use egregious in a Sentence

egregious

adjective
  • That is still five years behind the rest of the city, but the gap is no longer so egregious.
    The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • That meant the court wasn’t aware of some of the more egregious incidents.
    Lynn Thompson, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
  • With egregious use of the throttle, the Trofeo's tail will wag, but the front axle keeps the thing on a leash.
    David Beard, Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The Campaign to Save Roe is in many ways even more egregious.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 9 May 2022
  • For a crew to do that in a playoff game, the conduct has to be egregious.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
  • If the conduct was found to be egregious, the penalties could triple.
    Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The most egregious breach of trust at the Supreme Court that has ever happened.
    NBC News, 8 May 2022
  • But teens say it’s not the most egregious videos that keep them engaged.
    Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Is there one lie that seems to be the most repeated or, in your view, is the most egregious?
    Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • All of it makes the lack of action on Bennett even more egregious.
    Gary Gramling, SI.com, 17 Dec. 2017
  • The agency has not said who was behind the group or its most egregious posts.
    A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2020
  • But those close to Comey say that is an egregious misreading of the man.
    Max Kutner, Newsweek, 13 Apr. 2017
  • With the most egregious scheme, everything seems to be fine.
    Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2020
  • The problem is not that Amos leaving was an egregious call.
    James Hansen, Bon Appétit, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Jackie looked around the parking lot to see how egregious her fault might be in his eyes.
    Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • The tweet amounts to one of many U.S. concessions, though perhaps the most egregious yet.
    Carine Hajjar, National Review, 18 Feb. 2022
  • There were no career-ending gaffes, no egregious flubs that would force him to pull out of the race.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
  • But that almost feels more egregious than no songs at all.
    Emily Heller, Vulture, 10 June 2022
  • Invariably, in this new light, the act seems egregious.
    Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
  • But the most egregious example is the return of Christoph Waltz as Blofeld.
    cleveland, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The first is that the interest rates on most credit cards are, frankly, egregious.
    Julian Kheel, CNN Underscored, 18 June 2020
  • Then again, sticking around past the end of the party is equally, if not more, egregious.
    Holiday Mathis, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The camp at Matamoros was perhaps the most egregious to emerge under MPP.
    Miriam Pensack, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The problem was most egregious around March, when the pandemic first hit.
    Karina Elwood, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The most egregious crime was outright directing him where to point and shoot.
    Amy Fine Collins, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2018
  • Few men live up to the tales of his egregious violations.
    Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
  • That makes this film no less than an egregious downgrade.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024
  • With 39 seconds left in the first half, USC made its most egregious mistake.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2021
  • And the process repeats itself, getting worse and more egregious each time.
    Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The individuals liable for the egregious behavior were court martialed and punished for the crimes that occurred well over a decade ago.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2024

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