How to Use botched in a Sentence

botched

adjective

• The botched punt did not alone spell doom for the Hurricanes.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2022
• The Browns had two second-half turnovers and a botched snap on a punt in the fourth quarter.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2021
• Restoring botched brows can be a major pain in the… arch.
  — Paige Stables, Allure, 30 June 2022
• The drive stalled, and a botched punt attempt turned into a turnover on downs.
  — Dave Woodall, NOLA.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• This wasn’t a typical botched game from the Knicks of the recent past.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• With Herbert in his NFL debut, the risk for a botched play went up.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
• There was the mother of Demetrius Hill, who said her son died in a botched police raid in 1997.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
• The Lions scored early with a safety on a botched punt.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• Teri is a small but sure Iowan, a rancher’s wife, legally blind from a botched eye surgery.
  — Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
• Video of one such sequence — a botched dunk attempt in a Feb. 28 win over the Austin Spurs — went viral.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2021
• There weren’t any botched snaps or holds on anyone’s end, as the special teams unit came through big time.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022
• Watch Gage discuss the group chat — and how a botched botox procedure made one of his eyes droop for six weeks — in the clip above.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• Riverside opened the scoring with safety on a botched punt snap.
  — cleveland, 28 Aug. 2020
• The Bulldogs kicked a botched punt snap out of the end zone, and the Pirates notched a tackle in the end zone on a kickoff return.
  — Michael Osipoff, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• These are the first federal charges brought against any of the officers involved in the botched 2020 raid.
  — Sonia Moghe, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
• The problems with Goines’s cases came to light after last year’s botched drug raid.
  — Manny Fernandez, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2020
• And Lindor’s botched play at shortstop was part of the mud underneath.
  — Stefan Bondy, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2022
• Goines was relieved of duty in the wake of the botched raid that left Dennis Tuttle, 59, and his wife Rhogena Nicholas, 58, dead.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2020
• The three felony charges from the botched attempt to arrange his own death could bring up to 20 years in prison if he's convicted.
  — CBS News, 19 Oct. 2021
• The police called the crime a botched robbery, based on Mr. Hein’s description of the incident.
  — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2021
• Taylor, 26, was killed in March during a botched raid on her apartment.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2020
• What looked to fans in Chavez Ravine like a botched double-steal attempt in the bottom of the fourth inning did not cost the Dodgers the game on Sunday.
  — Mike Digiovanna Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
• In the very botched words of Paul McCartney: Let your portfolio be.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• The Texans had an extra point blocked against the Jacksonville Jaguars due to a botched protection.
  — Aaron Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2019
• Mary's botched surgery was one of several in Christopher's record.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 3 Sep. 2021
• Taylor was shot and killed by Louisville police in 2020 during a botched raid on her apartment.
  — Thomas Birmingham, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2022
• Nacho is still on the run after the botched attempt on Lalo’s (Tony Dalton) life.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2022
• The botched aid response after the 2010 earthquake made headlines.
  — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2021
• CrowdStrike has blamed the IT outage on a bug that released a botched update and melted down the world’s computer systems.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• Kids playing a fun game will no longer pick up a botched, eugenical notion of race alongside their 20-sided dice.
  — Steven Dashiell, Scientific American, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024