How to Use lousy with in a Sentence

lousy with

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  • In a few more months, the Hamptons will be lousy with the new Jeep Grand Wagoneer.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 6 May 2021
  • The road from Laredo to Austin is long and lousy with nothing much.
    Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Shane’s mother is right: The place is lousy with pineapples.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The bottom was flat and sandy, though lousy with the white, dime-size half-shells of dead invasive Asian clams.
    Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The picture looks odd because Terzan 5 lies in a very crowded region of the Milky Way, lousy with dust.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2011
  • The pro ranks, especially on the men’s side, are lousy with nepo babies.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • The party is lousy with these Citizen Consultant types who believe the Democrats don’t craft the right words.
    Michael Sokolove, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • But my favorite Rangers story is when a sheriff of a town lousy with a mob of outlaws telegraphed the Rangers and was told help was coming on the next train.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The area butts up against the Chugach Mountains, an area lousy with bears, who are bold coming into the camp, drawn by smells sizzling off cookstoves and grills, and foraging freely.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2022
  • The state is also lousy with hummingbirds: about a dozen species can be spotted in southeastern Arizona each year.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2020
  • This region of the sky, in the constellation Ophiuchus, is toward the center of the galaxy, and is lousy with gas and dust - the latter of which is actually composed of complex chains of molecules.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2012
  • Still, the history of Corporate America is lousy with questionable branding decisions — many of them instant flops — that have left customers scratching their heads.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Luckily, California is top-to-bottom lousy with natural beauty, historic towns, scenic back roads and first-rate national parks.
    Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Indoor air in particular is lousy with the floating particles, because virtually everything around us is made of plastic or is coated with it: carpets, hardwood floors, and even our clothes, of which two-thirds are now made of plastic.
    WIRED, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The explodey white dwarf supernova is characterized by a lack of hydrogen in it (the other kind of supernova, when the core collapses in a massive star, is lousy with hydrogen since the star's outer layers are loaded with it).
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2011
  • While the industry’s chief executive responsibilities have changed dramatically over the past two decades, the leadership pipeline has not kept up, which explains why the sector has been lousy with interim CEOs of late.
    Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Alaska history is lousy with plans and proposals and exploratory studies, some laughably disconnected from reality.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2021

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