How to Use abysmal in a Sentence

abysmal

adjective

• They were living in abysmal ignorance.
• The rest of the team was abysmal trying to score there.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• In the early nineties, the state of the coffee bean was abysmal.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The Colts are abysmal right now and will start Sam Ehlinger in this one.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2023
• In terms of the turnover battle, Auburn was abysmal last fall.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• In Wednesday’s loss to Iowa State, the Frogs shot an abysmal 6-18 from the free throw line.
  — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023
• Iowa State is abysmal at the free-throw line, shooting 69.9%.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2024
• This year has been great for games but abysmal for the people who make them.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2023
• But the homicide clearance rate is abysmal – about 50%.
  — Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• The sound system blares hits of the 1980s, from the resplendent (Tina Turner) to the abysmal (Tom Petty).
  — Jenn Shapland, New York Times, 25 July 2023
• With that abysmal performance behind them, the C’s should bounce back in front of the home crowd this evening.
  — Alex Kay, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• Their picks have been better the last couple of years after a half-decade of abysmal drafts.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• Green Bay’s special teams have been abysmal for the better part of two decades now and finished 32nd in the league last year.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• Democrats have tried to use this event to distract from their abysmal record on election reform.
  — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2023
• And yet, my track record for tempting friends into tasting it is abysmal.
  — Lauren Silverman, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2023
• And there was no way out for the Brady-less Patriots after an abysmal first quarter put them in a 16-0 hole.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• The voice quality might be abysmal and response time too slow to be useful.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 22 Feb. 2023
• The Hawkeyes’ offense has been abysmal, but their defense and special teams are elite as always.
  — Doug Ziefel, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• Duckworth, who lost her legs in a combat helicopter crash in Iraq, said that lack of progress is abysmal.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• That's because Miami’s second half was abysmal with a turnover on downs and five punts.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2022
• So, this game has lost a lot of its luster with the Packers' abysmal performance so far this season.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2022
• Injuries had a lot to do with Sporting’s abysmal early showing last year.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2024
• There’s a reason local elections have such abysmal turnout.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Indianapolis got off to an abysmal start in the first half against Tennessee.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 2 Oct. 2022
• The film, directed by Dexter Fletcher, opened in April to abysmal reviews.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• Despite a 2-3 start and seemingly abysmal play on both sides of the ball, Chicago has played things close in the majority of their games.
  — oregonlive, 13 Oct. 2022
• Most machine translation of these languages is poor to abysmal.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
• Last season ASU got off to an abysmal start, particularly on the offensive end of the floor.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
• Curry and Thompson struggled on Friday, combining to shoot an abysmal 14 for 47 from the field.
  — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• While the new app will try to pick up the pieces and outdo its predecessor’s abysmal App Store review score on May 25th, the camera and lens are both set to launch around June 29th.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 24 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024