How to Use in the worst way in a Sentence
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Cleveland needs a win in the worst way, dropping four straight.
—Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 31 Oct. 2022
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One thing that seems certain, though: This team needs the promise of Tatis’ bat in the worst way.
—Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2022
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Leaving Afghanistan was the wrong thing to do, and it was done in the worst way possible.
—Jim Talent, National Review, 22 Aug. 2021
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The offense needed a big hit in the worst way Monday night.
—Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2021
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Texas Tech’s secondary has made a name for itself in the worst way for the better part of the last decade.
—Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
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But just as Jack’s death turned us upside-down in the worst way, Andrew’s birth did it in the best.
—Washington Post, 11 May 2021
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Cincinnati’s defense has been hit with the injury bug in the worst way.
—Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
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After being buried, their cat comes back to life in the worst way, and the events that follow will send chills up your spine.
—Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 31 Aug. 2022
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The Pistons need a win in the worst way, mired in a franchise-record-tying 14-game skid after Saturday's loss to the Rockets.
—Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2021
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Kyler Murray and the Cardinals offense needed a touchdown in the worst way late in the second quarter against the Saints.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Oct. 2022
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The actor made constant headlines in the worst way possible.
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 Dec. 2022
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If Minnesota stumbles its way into that top-three pick, the Warriors will need to retain their own first-round pick in the worst way.
—Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2021
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But because this is 2020, this seemingly good idea is being done in the worst way possible.
—Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 15 Oct. 2020
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This incident turned out to be a false alarm — there was no active shooter — but the experience stuck with Mackey in the worst way.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 8 Nov. 2022
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Dallas lost Game 1 to the Wild in the worst way imaginable — home defeat, long overtime defeat, loss of Pavelski for the series.
—Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
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Dallas lost Game 1 to the Wild in the worst way imaginable — home defeat, long overtime defeat, loss of Pavelski for the series.
—Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
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Neil Patrick Harris has apologized for an Amy Winehouse joke that became legendary in the worst way possible.
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 17 May 2022
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Even today, a look into a darker world shaped by Oppenheimer feels relevant in the worst way possible.
—Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
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So often a film score demands attention in the worst way, serving as a hammer of obviousness, or else a grey zone of watery emoting.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2020
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The company did this in the worst way possible, rolling out the limit as a complete surprise and with no prior communication.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2023
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Metro Phoenix communities dominate a ranking of cities with the best residential views — in the worst way possible.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2022
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These three timelines have now managed to converge in the worst way possible: Just as Delta is climbing to a new peak, millions of children who still cannot be vaccinated are going to spend hours a day indoors at school.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2021
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Cleveland needed a victory like Saturday’s 13-1 drubbing of Kansas City in the worst way, finally winning its first game on this road trip after five losses.
—Joe Noga, cleveland, 9 July 2022
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Texas became the center of the college basketball universe in the worst way, a top-10 team with grand ambitions taking collateral damage because the man who brought them all together couldn’t hold himself together.
—Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Mar. 2023
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Tim’s analysis: Baltimore needs a receiver in the worst way possible opposite Hollywood Brown.
—Tim Bielik, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2021
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That first half is an authorized autobiography in the worst way: empty, glossy, bloated and wholly indifferent to what other people might find interesting about its subject.
—Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
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But, in true Silicon Valley fashion, one platform is centralizing in the worst way possible, while the other is decentralizing catastrophically.
—Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 20 July 2023
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Diminished existential outlooks catalyzed by limited education and health care, housing shortages, substance abuse, and a scarcity of employment has, Yazzie says, too often manifested in the worst way.
—Sunset Magazine, 23 May 2022
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