make matters worse
idiom
: to make a situation worse
He laughed at her and then, to make matters worse, he accused her of lying!
Examples of make matters worse in a Sentence
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To make matters worse, any plastic film that gets into the line clogs the machinery, which means workers have to cut it out.
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Cynthia Sewell, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
To make matters worse, the deputies said, several investigators had become sick with Covid.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
To make matters worse, some reports have also alleged the emergency override mechanism also failed to pop the door.
—Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
To make matters worse, the US and other Western governments warned of intelligence suggesting such an attack in early March.
—Matthew Chance, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
To make matters worse, Fossil has since decided to pull out of the smartwatch market, taking the vast majority of platform-agnostic Wear OS watches with it.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
To make matters worse, errors stemming from feeble interactions between qubits and their environment can mimic the destructive effects of measurement.
—Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2024
And a slew of factors threatens to make matters worse.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2024
To make matters worse, Messi took to the field in Japan just a few days later, sparking a huge outcry in China.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 20 Feb. 2024
Cynthia Sewell, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
To make matters worse, the deputies said, several investigators had become sick with Covid.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
To make matters worse, some reports have also alleged the emergency override mechanism also failed to pop the door.
—Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
To make matters worse, the US and other Western governments warned of intelligence suggesting such an attack in early March.
—Matthew Chance, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
To make matters worse, Fossil has since decided to pull out of the smartwatch market, taking the vast majority of platform-agnostic Wear OS watches with it.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
To make matters worse, errors stemming from feeble interactions between qubits and their environment can mimic the destructive effects of measurement.
—Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2024
And a slew of factors threatens to make matters worse.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2024
To make matters worse, Messi took to the field in Japan just a few days later, sparking a huge outcry in China.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 20 Feb. 2024
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