How to Use in the worst way in a Sentence
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The Colts need Ward back soon in the worst way.
—Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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The Kings need lottery luck in the worst way.
—Zach Harper, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
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The Aggies need a bounce-back in the worst way.
—Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 10 Feb. 2026
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Cleveland needs a win in the worst way, dropping four straight.
—Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 31 Oct. 2022
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That fact is showing up in the worst way possible.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 29 Nov. 2025
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Cincinnati’s defense has been hit with the injury bug in the worst way.
—Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
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John Doe’s life just got a lot sweeter in the worst way possible.
—Lauren Coates, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
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Leaving Afghanistan was the wrong thing to do, and it was done in the worst way possible.
—Jim Talent, National Review, 22 Aug. 2021
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After being buried, their cat comes back to life in the worst way, and the events that follow will send chills up your spine.
—Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 31 Aug. 2022
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Texas Tech’s secondary has made a name for itself in the worst way for the better part of the last decade.
—Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
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The Cowboys could use Parsons’ services in the worst way.
—Mike Jones, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
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But Linkin Park lost Bennington in the worst way any group can part with a singer.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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But just as Jack’s death turned us upside-down in the worst way, Andrew’s birth did it in the best.
—Washington Post, 11 May 2021
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One moment, the current would be against them and the weather forecast would catch them by surprise in the worst way.
—Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
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Continually holding on to broken pieces will break you in the worst way.
—Terina Allen, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Oh boy, OpenAI has to come public in the worst way; thank you very little.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 26 July 2026
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The Bears needed this in the worst way because the Rams were shorthanded, almost across the board.
—Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2024
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Mike Norvell needs a bounce-back season in the worst way after going 7-17 the past two seasons.
—Antonio Morales, New York Times, 22 July 2026
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For a team that had lost 11 of 15, the Suns needed something positive in the worst way.
—Doug Haller, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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The New York Yankees needed a big swing in the top of the 10th inning in the worst way.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
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Let’s start this by saying that the two free agent signings, who were attention-grabbing in the worst way, haven’t been outright nightmarish.
—Eric Stephens, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
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But because this is 2020, this seemingly good idea is being done in the worst way possible.
—Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 15 Oct. 2020
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Letting the comedian on, even temporarily, five years later felt like a backslide in the worst way.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 14 Feb. 2025
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This incident turned out to be a false alarm — there was no active shooter — but the experience stuck with Mackey in the worst way.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 8 Nov. 2022
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Many Christians or people of other faiths have a story of a church handling a disaster in the worst way possible.
—Joseph Marchelewski, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
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If Minnesota stumbles its way into that top-three pick, the Warriors will need to retain their own first-round pick in the worst way.
—Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2021
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The offense slows into stagnant, isolation-heavy possessions that feel familiar in the worst way.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2026
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In other words, if all of the software goes haywire in the worst way possible, the robot must not be able to cause critical damage to the station.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2017
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Even today, a look into a darker world shaped by Oppenheimer feels relevant in the worst way possible.
—Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
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The players can’t duck the blame, either, as their season-long inability to play complementary football came to a head in the worst way.
—James Boyd, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
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