BAD in a Sentence

Learn BAD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for BAD, such as:
1. He's got such a bad reputation.
2. Many a good cow hath a bad calf.
3. Don't say bad things about others.
4. Don't speak bad about other people.
5. A good horse cannot be of a bad colour.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BAD
bad
 a.  feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
 ad.  with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You're a bad girl, Mattie Silver, and I always known it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and a bad girl to have fun with and anybody can have their Europe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  She always felt secure when Ellen was by her, for there was nothing so bad that Ellen could not better it, simply by being there.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  "I'm as bad as Honey Wilkes," she thought suddenly, and remembered how everyone, and she more than anyone else, had laughed contemptuously at Honey's forward conduct.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  You is as bad as Miss Pitty an she lak a chile bout gittin her feets wet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  She had never seen a bad woman before and she twisted her head and stared after her until she was lost in the crowd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  But they'd suspect it was your bedroom and that's just as bad.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  The other women were simply silly and hysterical with their talk of patriotism and the Cause, and the men were almost as bad with their talk of vital issues and States' Rights.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  If you were too nice to young husbands, their wives said you were fast and you got a bad reputation and never caught any beaux of your own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  "Oh, I can't believe he's that bad," said Melly gently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  It would put her in such a bad light as a chaperon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  He is a thoroughly bad character who would take advantage of your youth and innocence to make you conspicuous and publicly disgrace you and your family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  He's got such a bad reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  I'm sure he can't be all the bad things Dr. Meade and Mrs. Merriwether say he is.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
2  A good horse cannot be of a bad colour.
3  Many a good cow hath a bad calf.
4  A good reputation sits still; a bad one runs about.
5  Don't speak bad about other people.
6  Don't say bad things about others.
7  According to popular folklore, anyone who owns such a picture will have bad luck.
8  According to superstition, if you walk under a ladder it brings you bad luck.
9  A man is not good or bad for one action.
10  His bad action was scorned by the public.
11  The administration has no vested interest in proving whether public schools were good or bad.
12  A bad home environment can affect a child's healthy growth.
13  The South African mailboat arrived on Friday mornings unless bad weather intervened.
14  He felt dismal after reading a piece of bad news in the newspaper.
15  He grew more and more bad - tempered as the afternoon wore on.