How to Use negative in a Sentence

negative

1 of 3 adjective

• The feedback about the new product was all negative.
• Car exhaust has a negative effect on the environment.
• But a lot of good as well, so not all negative.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2026
• The world feels quite scary and negative and harsh.
  — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
• Why let the facts get in the way of a good negative story?
  — CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
• The stock is on track for its sixth negative session in a row.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
• It can be imagined that this is not a negative process.
  — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
• Trout got an X-ray, which was negative.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 20 Mar. 2026
• Wind chills will be in the negative digits for many cities.
  — Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2026
• Emotions, even negative ones, come and go like clouds in the sky.
  — Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
• And the negative effects last at least four years.
  — Emily Nix, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
• But the negative aspects were hard to miss.
  — Diane Brady, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
• All the other tests are clean and negative.
  — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 17 June 2026
• But [those negative reviews] stopped us from that growth process.
  — Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
• Over time, these negative feelings and thoughts passed.
  — Sara Schiff, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
• There are negative aspects to having too many things to watch.
  — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 29 Aug. 2023
• But a second test taken on the ship was negative.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 15 May 2026
• Green’s impact stats across the board paint him as a negative on the floor this season.
  — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
• But, yes, that has had the negative of increasing the weight.
  — Luke Smith, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2026
• That does not mean self-promotion in a negative sense.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• If it is being used by bean-counters to cut jobs and cut costs, that’s a negative thing.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
• Bayer expects a negative free cash flow for this year.
  — Hugh Leask,sawdah Bhaimiya,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
• There’s no point in being negative.
  — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
• This is the biggest negative change, in my opinion.
  — Mark Billingsley, Sacbee.com, 9 Jan. 2026
• That has also left the benchmark stock index negative for the year thus far.
  — Alex Harring, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
• And so, one of the big things for me was recognizing how negative my self-talk was.
  — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
• The backdrop is a negative vibe shift on Wall Street.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
• Taneja added that Tesla will post negative free cash flow for the rest of the year.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
• While free cash flow was still negative in Q1, it was much improved from a year ago.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
• His penchant for contact has its negative side.
  — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 1 May 2026

negative

2 of 3 noun

• Can I have the negatives to make copies of the photos?
• There was a lot of bad, a lot of negatives.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 21 Sep. 2025
• Let’s get the negatives out of the way.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
• Some saw his age as a negative.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
• Chaos doesn’t have to be a negative.
  — Parents, 18 June 2026
• On the negative, the Jaguars turned the ball over three times.
  — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 22 Nov. 2022
• What are the negatives of I-bonds?
  — Medora Lee, USA Today, 6 May 2026
• We're told that the film can be processed and the negatives can be scanned at most labs.
  — New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
• Wind chills could dip into the negatives overnight.
  — Cheryl Vari, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Jan. 2026
• That works out to a net negative of seven points for the Court.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2022
• Increasing clouds and a gusty breeze were some of the main negatives for the day.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• Then again, not taking a chance on a new look might also be viewed as a negative.
  — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
• The grain is rough and heavy enough to limit how much detail the negatives record.
  — Jim Fisher, PCMAG, 5 July 2023
• Chang asked, to which Meghan was quick to reply in the negative.
  — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 28 Aug. 2025
• Every splash of rain, speck of dust, or pinprick of light could mar the negative.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
• There were times when there were positives and negatives, ups and downs.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 11 May 2026
• In his shame, Panahi went to the lab, stole the negatives and destroyed them.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Oct. 2025
• The only negative is that more people didn’t see it.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2026
• The negative on the night for the Panthers once again came from the free-throw line.
  — cleveland, 1 Mar. 2022
• All of those questions now feel resolved in the negative.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
• There are negatives in any tradeoff.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026
• But there are real negatives that this blanket ban has forced upon kids.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 17 June 2026
• Kyle told the outlet that the set-up came with both positives and negatives.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
• This helps kids look for the positives in their siblings rather than the negatives.
  — David Sparrow, Parents, 10 Mar. 2026
• Despite all the negatives, there are whisps of optimism for the sport.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• The original black-and-white 35mm negatives of the film have been lost.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026
• The one negative is that the card slots are a little tight and might be hard to get thicker credit cards in and out.
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2023
• That, however, shouldn’t be viewed as a negative.
  — Miami Herald, 14 May 2026
• The negatives are more pronounced.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
• VistaVision is all about the size of the negative.
  — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026

negative

3 of 3 verb

• Corning stock has been an outlier this year, rallying nearly 60% year to date while the broader market is flat to negative.
  — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
• Someone who tests negative the day before visiting the White House could be positive upon arrival.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
• The move is part of Moody’s broader revision of its outlook for private credit investment vehicles to negative.
  — Sharon Klyne, Bloomberg, 8 Apr. 2026
• Auburn’s coverage units held Northwestern to negative two return yards, and its return units produced 25 yards on two returns.
  — Giana Han, al, 2 Jan. 2021
• Moody’s Investors Service has lowered its outlook to negative on all municipal bond sectors except for housing-finance agencies and water, sewer and public power.
  — Heather Gillers, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• In April, Moody’s revised the rating outlook for Thailand to negative from stable, flagging rising political uncertainty and sustained growth weakness.
  — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2025
• But bad news continued as a leading ratings agency slashed its outlook for BMW to negative from stable, as analysts wondered if the German manufacturing base might be under threat.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026