How to Use the bad in a Sentence

the bad

noun

• There’s the good, the bad and the ugly kind of thing going on.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2023
• And the sad part of that is, the bad guys aren't giving up their guns.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 10 Feb. 2024
• Now, these are not the bad guys, the criminals that you are warned about by the NRA.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 6 May 2024
• The obvious starting point of this film was that AI was the bad guy.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• But the bad news is that the headphone jack that held on for so long in the Pixel A-series is now gone.
  — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 1 Apr. 2023
• Even in those moments, Bailey sought a balance between the good and the bad.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
• Passover is about the imperative to remember, both the good and the bad.
  — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
• No one seriously disputes that the Nazis are the bad guys.
  — TIME, 8 May 2024
• There’s a lot more about Frederick Douglass here than there is about the bad guys of slavery.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 17 Apr. 2023
• Her world has been destroyed, and the bad guys responsible are still out there.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
• Marc Jacobs and John Galliano, the bad boys of ’90s grunge and glamour, have been in recovery for years.
  — Nick Haramis Lise Sarfati Delphine Danhier, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• The owners broke the bad news: The painting had long been regarded as a knockoff by the family.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• The motivation of the bad actor doesn’t emerge just from code forensics.
  — Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
• The good Fortunately for Auburn, the good outweighed the bad in Saturday’s win.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 4 Sep. 2023
• From a transparency perspective, the bad news in this case is that the public won’t know who rendered the verdict here.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
• Now, here's the bad news: There are many wrong ways and decisions, both small and large, can mess with the harmony of any family trip.
  — Christine Sarkis, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
• The cows play an important role on the farm, eating grass, fertilizing the land and ensuring the bad dates don’t go to waste.
  — Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• People are ashamed of their misdeeds, and this constitutes suffering, which makes up for the bad deeds.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• Sure, there’s plenty of suspense, intrigue and red herrings, but there’s also stakeouts, injuries and jumping fences to catch, or even get away from, the bad guys.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, 'Look of the Week' is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days.
  — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
• After accepting the job on the Plains, Freeze only had the opportunity to review cutups of each quarterbacks’ film, the good and the bad.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 9 Apr. 2023
• After a career of iconic, empowering roles, Viola Davis is ready to be the bad guy.
  — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2023
• Pathogens: These are the bad guys, like Salmonella and E. coli, that can cause foodborne illness if milk isn’t handled properly.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 12 Feb. 2024
• Due to the bad weather, Trump had to cancel three out of his four in-person commit to caucus rallies and will instead hold a series of telerallies.
  — Galen Druke, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024
• Its efforts could help build a roadmap on how democracies balance the good and the bad of artificial intelligence.
  — Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2024
• And the culture around the narco business is super-important, because there’s this tendency to see it in very binary terms of good guys versus bad guys, i.e. governments are the good guys and traffickers are the bad guys.
  — Los Angeles Times En Español, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• But the bad alleged behavior of the leaders at Brandy Melville went beyond discrimination, experts in the documentary said.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
• The four of them then began working on a script together, weaving Bill and Matho’s narratives — along with the good, the bad, and the nurturing aspects of the Indigenous community at large — into something like a mural.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
• Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakes healthy tissues as foreign invaders and attacks them rather than targeting the bad bacteria and viruses.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
• Polsky peppers the film with Will’s dreams and hallucinations, sequences that resemble nothing so much as the bad LSD trips in drug-centric 1960s exploitation flicks, and are more annoying than illuminating.
  — Joe Leydon, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024