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 game flipped – and badly – quickly on the Brewers in this one.
  — Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• Hundreds were killed and thousands injured, and huge swaths of the city were badly damaged.
  — NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• Our country is doing so badly with the borders, with the military, with the lack of respect all over the world.
  — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• In the United States, residents of Vermont were badly hit by floods, and some homes were washed away.
  — Larissa Gao, NBC News, 14 July 2023
• The key to hunting this way is to find with a lot of fresh buck sign while not spooking bucks—or at least not spooking them too badly.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 19 Oct. 2023
• This is what all three of them have so badly wanted, for varying reasons.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• Your book makes clear how badly America failed the poor and people of color.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• To improve his electoral prospects, Biden badly needs to turn those figures around.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
• With the war in Ukraine going badly, some analysts say the Russian leader may not have a choice.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• She was badly burned taking a selfie, then became a war refugee.
  — Freep.com, 9 June 2023
• That’s not to say Gollum has no sense of challenge or the parkour segments are badly designed.
  — Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
• And as White Lotus viewers now know, that trip ended very, very badly.
  — Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
• Years ago, he was badly burned in a church bombing that claimed 13 other lives, and whose true culprit was never caught.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2023
• The little boy, with a badly bruised face and a jagged slash running across his forehead, fingered a toy car with his bandaged hand.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
• In his last two outings, he’s struggled badly, allowing six of the eight runners he’s faced to reach base.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 6 July 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024