How to Use worse in a Sentence

worse

1 of 2 adjective

• This one is no worse than that one.
• Her second book was worse than her first one.
• Her first book was bad, but her second one is even worse.
• You have even worse luck than I do.
• She ended up in worse shape than when she started.
• It turned out to be a worse idea than we originally thought.
• Things are bad for him now, but he was in a worse situation last week.
• Cheer up. Things could be worse, you know.
• Could the situation get any worse?
• His schoolwork got worse after his parents split up.
• There are worse things than being gouged at the gas pump.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• What may be worse, few of them will believe a word of it.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
• The rate is even worse in L.A. County — 25%, up from 13% last week.
  — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
• The last thing the Bears want is to put him in a position where things could be made worse.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• But for better or worse, it should get stuck in your head.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
• Who knew that the pains of public transit could get even worse?
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2022
• The game got off to a brutal start for UConn, and continued to get worse.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2022
• The dystopian present needn’t presage an even worse future.
  — Victor Ray, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
• And even though gas prices have come down in recent weeks, there is still a chance that the bumpy ride could get worse.
  — Patrick De Haan For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
• As the climate warms, the damage is expected to get worse.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2022
• For better or for worse, TV doesn't work that way anymore.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 15 July 2022
• There were record deaths at the border last year, and things are only getting worse.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 10 Jan. 2023
• And the problem will only get worse if repairs are not made at this time, Nichols added.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 13 July 2022
• Varsho, for example, was a far worse hitter for the first 200 or so at-bats of his career.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
• And safety experts say the problem has only grown worse since the start of the pandemic.
  — Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2022
• But after more than a year, Rendon’s pain and fatigue were just as bad, if not worse.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 19 Dec. 2022
• But if energy prices in Germany are bad now, they could be poised to get even worse.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2022
• There could be worse performances though and that’s why Mahomes is still standing tall at the top spot.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2022
• But the Skyway’s problems, made worse by a scandal at the private fund that had bought the lease, continued.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
• But the stomach tumor was getting worse and Osthoff needed a miracle.
  — Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2023

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worse

2 of 2 adverb

• You drive worse than he does.
• I did much worse on my second try.
• She was hurt worse than I was.
• That isn't an excellent score, but you could have done worse.
• Even worse: The Raiders locked up Derek Carr through 2025.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022
• The extra point was pushed even worse and wasn’t even close.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
• Even worse, large pieces of debris can fall from the sky and crash on Earth.
  — Moriba Jah, CNN, 7 Sep. 2022
• That was 11th in the Pac-12, with only Cal faring worse.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
• Even worse somehow than the fires of hell, more fearsome, to me, was the Rapture.
  — Anna Deforest, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• And now, with cybercrime on the rise, things could turn worse.
  — Kannan Amaresh, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• Or perhaps the same-side shots would have made the soreness in my left arm way worse.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022
• Making matters worse was the fact that her dress was see-through.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 Sep. 2022
• The expansion of the hospital made the problem worse and brought the matter to a head.
  — NBC News, 28 Mar. 2022
• Even worse, only about 20 percent of donor lungs are healthy enough to be used.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 18 Feb. 2022
• And the fire danger is still there, possibly worse this summer than the past two.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
• Even worse, in 10 of those seasons Washington has lost 10 or more games, a sign of a bad NFL team.
  — Fred Bowen, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• Inflation is nowhere near the Fed's goal of 2% and has gotten worse in recent months.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 27 July 2022
• The tech-heavy Nasdaq fared even worse, shedding 9% as Wall Street lost its appetite for risk.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
• Even worse, the sixth-grader can’t bring her beloved viola.
  — Christina Barron, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
• Her face paled to a horrible white, then worse, passed into blue.
  — Aria Beth Sloss, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2022
• But making any of those leaps right now could leave them worse off financially in the long run.
  — Joe Pinsker, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
• Even worse, the Angels will pay $28 million to Upton this year … for nothing.
  — Mike Digiovannastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2022
• Twitch shares ad revenue (though that split has gotten worse for creators of late).
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
• Even worse, half of those who share their status later regret it.
  — Jonathan Passmore, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2022
• Even worse, the Chargers have struggled stopping third and long throughout the season.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• This is one of those deals where the grade could change (for better or worse) depending on what Portland does in the future.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2022
• Even worse, the flight attendant told me that there were other pet cases in the plane, with either cats or dogs.
  — Jacqueline Swartz, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
• No one wants to struggle—or be seen struggling—getting in and out of the water, or worse yet, getting injured in the process.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2022
• In the rest of these stories, Republicans tended to fare worse than Democrats.
  — Tevi Troy, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
• Others took actions that made worker injuries far worse.
  — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 19 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024