How to Use bad in a Sentence

bad

1 of 3 adjective

• The medicine left a bad taste in his mouth.
• He had a bad day at the office.
• I was having a bad dream.
• I have a bad feeling about this.
• The house is in bad condition.
• It's a bad time for business right now.
• Things are looking pretty bad for us at this point.
• She made a very bad impression on her future colleagues.
• We've been having bad weather lately.
• Dirt and germs breed bad odors.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2025
• There are far worse places to be.
  — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
• There are worse sins in the world.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
• Even her bad shots turned out good.
  — ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
• There’s more good than there’s bad.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2025
• Avoid the first step on a bad path.
  — Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
• And these guys are … these are bad dudes.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
• Even worse is that many will fall for it.
  — Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
• And some bad ones who slip through the cracks.
  — Sergei Poljak, Outside, 7 Mar. 2026
• There is no one else to blame for a bad shot.
  — Jayson Jenks, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
• Not sure if that’s a good thing or bad thing.
  — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
• At worst, it will be seen as it was meant to be.
  — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
• This is Williams’ worst rep of the game.
  — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
• And this one stat shows just how bad these two matchups were.
  — For The Win, 21 Dec. 2017
• Not all of the reasons are bad.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
• For Hawks, that may not be such a bad thing.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2026
• This is not a story about one bad deck.
  — Rich Bornstein, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• Not a bad way to begin a test drive.
  — Sponsored Content, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026
• There’s not a bad outfit in the show.
  — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
• Not bad enough to be lottery bad.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
• Some days are worse than others.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 1 May 2026

bad

2 of 3 noun

• There's more good than bad in him.
• He believes that the good go to heaven when they die and the bad go to hell.
• We need to teach our children the difference between good and bad.
• And yet, no, Savathun is not the big bad of the entire Destiny franchise.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• Our big bads in the Hawkins federal lab seem to be ramping up to factor heavily into this modern theme.
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2017
• So what was the rationale behind introducing our new big bad in the exact opposite way?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
• The accidental bumps and sorrys and quiet my bads create a low hum as the group finds its rhythm behind Jaydon.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019
• Up until this point, the show had led viewers to believe that the big bad was Doomsday, the beast who famously killed Superman in the comics.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2022
• The revenue could come from taxes on bads (pollution, for example) or on rents (including land and, above all, intellectual property).
  — Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015

bad

3 of 3 adverb

• He hasn't succeeded because he doesn't want it bad enough.
• There were no debates involved, no refs called in, no bad-mouthing.
  — Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
• Not bad a for a team that has had trouble finding the net all season.
  — Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• This can make your water smell bad, affect the taste, and could lead to illness.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 Nov. 2025
• Not bad a for a team whose rushing attack ranked 32nd in the league a year ago.
  — Bob McManaman, azcentral, 1 Jan. 2020
• Apart from all the hurricane of all that fire coming up real bad.
  — Mark Phillips, CBS News, 5 June 2019
• This is part of the reason why there are so few bad-sounding earphones on the market.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• And nothing ruins an ambiance more than a bad-smelling candle.
  — Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2020
• There was a definite feeling of having been good-cop-bad-copped that evening.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• As bad a beating as the left took this year, losses may be starker and deeper in years to come.
  — The Economist, 30 June 2018
• Of course, Hole himself isn’t averse to breaking bad, either.
  — Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 23 Mar. 2026
• Straight men are, the old chestnut goes, bad at expressing themselves.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Feb. 2018
• The Fed’s bad-tasting medicine may slow it down eventually, but the medicine takes some time to work.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• The dialogue sometimes lapses from bad-funny to just bad.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
• And so all those businesses on the way into Yosemite on the south are hurting pretty bad.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2022
• Drake got this man down bad after responding to a troll’s comment about his son Adonis….
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 4 May 2022
• Composers are notoriously bad at taking a step back from their works.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Overripe fruits and vegetables go bad faster, so choose the freshest produce available.
  — Arriana Vasquez Wirecutter, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
• It's been nearly two months since Riverdale's season finale aired, and the fans are missing it real bad.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 6 July 2017
• In particular, be careful about bad-mouthing the other person when a friendship draws to a close.
  — Michelle Icard, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
• Things are so bad now, there are so many women just desperately trying to figure out how to be empowered by me.
  — Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2018
• Maybe Monday was just one of those random variance bad-shooting nights for the Utah Jazz.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2021
• Humans have no difficulty putting names to colours but are notoriously bad at putting names to odours.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• During that same six months, 60 percent of those who said their quality of life was bad or very bad changed their answers to good or very good.
  — Mary Schumacher, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Kids get a lot of their confidence and sense of self-worth from their families — thus the emphasis on parents’ not bad-mouthing each other.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• Staff would discourage a person from chewing on a foreign object by forcing them to hold a coarse rag dipped in a bad-tasting substance in their mouth.
  — State Of Denial, ProPublica, 6 Nov. 2020
• Turns out ants are really bad at picking up on nestmates infected with this particular fungus.
  — Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• Also, if exposed to too much heat, humidity, or other elements, the gummies can go bad faster than the expiration date.
  — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• And people are pretty good at seeing their own behavior in the best light and pretty bad at seeing an invidious pattern to their assumptions.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2019
• Then, the chief of staff began ignoring the aide’s phone calls, lying about meetings being canceled, and bad-mouthing her to Sims, according to the complaint.
  — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2021