How to Use botch in a Sentence

botch

1 of 2 verb

• The store botched the order—I received only half the books I paid for.
• They clearly botched the investigation.
• Kelce can now say that botched first pitch was for his team.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026
• No reason to guess fetch or batch or botch or catch at this point.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• Pundits were quick to pronounce Pixar had botched the recipe in a rare miss.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
• Sorry to botch this answer and not pick a name but this season the team has been the star.
  — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2026
• Near the end, Rock even botched a key part of one joke, getting a title of a movie wrong.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• But the Heat botched the final possession and couldn’t close the deal.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 6 Dec. 2025
• What are the chances the Ham & Eggers botch the Midway project?
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
• And then the police really botched it badly.
  — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 2026
• Sometimes a finale just botches the job, and there’s nothing wrong with saying so.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• This could prove problematic for the Warriors, who have been known to botch box-outs.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2022
• Disney has, for the most part, completely botched Star Wars.
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
• Moxley botched a wide open layup that would have cut the visitor’s lead to three with just under five minutes left.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
• First, determine if your lips are actually botched or just swollen.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 28 July 2023
• Rollins botched a counter attempt, but Breakker covered it up with a standing moonsault for two.
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
• As someone who has botched a Valentine's Day or two, go ahead and take five with me and check that out.
  — Joe Mutascio, IndyStar, 4 Feb. 2026
• The Lions botched downing a punt at the 1-yard line, leading to a touchback.
  — Josh Dubow, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• Made all the worse, that final play by Miami was botched by a mistake that led to the pickoff.
  — Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
• The former Oregon product threw an egregious pick-six and botched a handoff.
  — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
• There’s no question that the state botched the implementation.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• Although the deal should still close (eventually), these delays can botch your forecast.
  — Julie Thomas, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• Mercury retrograde botched all your routines.
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
• Yet the country’s second most-populous city has managed to botch the process of reviewing what went wrong.
  — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2026
• And by botching the rollout of legal pot stores, New York left a vacuum to be filled.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2024
• In one of the first botches of the night, Ripley and Jax botched a hurricanrana.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Before Gentry and the defense made that final stop, the offense botched two of its own two-point attempts.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• And his lyrics with Silverman too often wander in search of a rhyme, then, sighting one in the distance, botch it.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• Did the real Tony botch his proposal to Judy Warren?
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
• The search for a permanent inspector general began after the city botched the process last year.
  — Devyani Chhetri, Dallas Morning News, 11 Feb. 2026

botch

2 of 2 noun

• Trump botches Kamala Harris’s first name, again and again and again.
  — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• There are myriad reasons why our initial public health response was such a botch.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2021
• Lastly, there was the botch job of trading away Jake Guentzel at the deadline last season.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
• There was an early botch on a leapfrog that seemed to drag this match down, especially with the crowd being mostly silent for it.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• In one of the first botches of the night, Ripley and Jax botched a hurricanrana.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• That could be dismissed as a minor slip of the tongue, but the president did a similar name botch an hour earlier.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
• Of course this was a calculated power play, not a bureaucratic botch.
  — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
• But what people would remember, far more than the Mets’ achievement, was Buckner’s botch.
  — Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
• Arizona remained white hot for Orton despite his botch and generally doing very little in the match.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The team of Canadians took advantage of the botch and took gold by seven-hundredths of a second over South Africa.
  — Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 9 Aug. 2024
• The media wanted to cheerlead the airlift and the evacuees, so criticism of the Biden admin’s botch of a withdrawal has now been muted.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 Sep. 2021
• People loved them, so Knedlik strapped an automobile air conditioner to a dispenser and turned the botch into a business.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2022
• Arkansas caught Alabama napping with an onside kick before a botch punt snap led to an easy touchdown for the Razorbacks.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 1 Oct. 2022
• During last week's WWE SmackDown, a series of mistakes and botches drew harsh criticism from fans.
  — Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
• However, as Jonathan's government botches both issues, the question over his government will move from one of corruption to one of competency.
  — John Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2012
• Lil Tjay was shot several times during what authorities said was a botch robbery attempt early Wednesday morning (June 23).
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 June 2022
• The 1961 Cuba invasion was an epic presidential botch—and yet, Kennedy’s standing improved afterward.
  — Fredrik Logevall, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2021
• If Tonga Loa is trusted again to play a significant role in this feud after a few high-profile botches, yet another member of the Samoan Dynasty could be called upon to even the odds.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024