How to Use badly in a Sentence

badly

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• She wanted the job badly.
• I'm badly in need of a vacation.
• He played badly but I played even worse.
• His fingers were badly frozen.
• The failure reflects badly on the administration.
• The old bull was bleeding badly from a cut in his right shoulder.
  — Anton Money, Outdoor Life, 15 Aug. 2024
• Is that skin going to be more likely to behave badly with surgery?
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 12 Aug. 2024
• Several dugouts slammed into sandstone ledges to the left; at least one was split badly.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• Among all adults, Harris leads on two measures on which Biden lagged badly.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2024
• By then, though, Guy was used to seeing how badly even popular bluesmen were treated.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2024
• At the same time, Riley was gone, too, so badly injuring his hip during a halftime tirade that a hip replacement was required.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• Inside was a badly scarred liver, just removed from a 47-year-old man undergoing a transplant to receive a new one from a donor.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
• The practice of courthouse arrests also badly complicates the lives and futures of residents who are non-citizens.
  — José F. Batista, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• The unknown driver had badly injured a woman and a 6-year-old child but escaped before he could be held accountable for his reckless behavior.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
• The trope is an old one: the illness or sudden death of an executive, and then the sharp worry that jittery markets will react badly to a rudderless company.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2023
• How badly, awfully, disgracefully they've been treated.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• The Republican brand is still badly damaged by Donald Trump and the riots of January 6.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 13 Apr. 2023
• The game flipped – and badly – quickly on the Brewers in this one.
  — Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2023
• When the smoke cleared, the tree was still standing, but it had been badly charred.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
• How could a No. 7 seed be crushing the No. 2 seed so badly?
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
• The one story nobody has is the time he got beat badly.
  — Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023
• The beach near the tracks has eroded badly in recent years.
  — Philip Diehl, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
• Disney fans agree that this section of the park badly needs change.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• Once officers arrived at the scene of the crash, a man, badly injured was found in the scene.
  — The Arizona Republic, 13 Aug. 2023
• Stanford’s defense was so badly stumped, Keister said the field was wide open all the way to the end zone.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023
• On a day when emotions were high and Brady was back in the house, the Patriots stumbled badly from the blocks.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• One of the reasons people behaved so badly, of course, was the color of their skin.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
• In the weeks before Oct. 7, Abu Awad had been planning to work on his house, which was badly damaged in a storm.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• Photos showed the silver car with a badly mangled roof and the windshield crushed flat.
  — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
• The Warriors had hustled down the floor for a final shot, but David Mack’s wild 3-point try missed badly.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024