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Example sentences for "badly"

Lexicographically close words:
badgering; badgers; badges; badinage; badine; badness; baek; bael; baes; baffle
  1. I am right glad to see you, and to bid you welcome to our camp, for I have been pretty badly in want of intelligent help lately.

  2. Badly of him--who has a right to do that?

  3. There are one or two matters upon which I am badly in need of reliable information.

  4. I retorted; "unless of course your records have been very badly kept.

  5. They were leading a fine race-horse; a handsome beast, but badly hurt somewhere, in the circus, and useless.

  6. The boy has been badly injured by a fall of brick-work, yet, with an effort, he rides boldly on his father's shoulders.

  7. If you want it badly enough to ask Miss Mason for it, well and good; otherwise I fear you have lost your grasshopper.

  8. Whether Palmer was badly hurt or not, he was certainly making a great noise.

  9. You cannot get anything like a decent army together, and the few men you have are badly armed and undisciplined.

  10. In fact he was actually getting badly licked at the very moment when the Indians came in a troop.

  11. General Cos was repulsed from the chapel, and the column which attacked the north wall was badly cut before it succeeded in making an entrance.

  12. That night an earthquake shook the surrounding country and badly frightened the pirates, who were sleeping in one of the largest churches.

  13. You did it terribly badly I suppose, and of course we'll lose.

  14. Lad had scared poor dear little Peter Grimm so badly that the cat seemed likely to spend all the rest of its nine lives squalling in the tree-top and crossly refusing to come down.

  15. You want to be the man on the spot with access to all sources of information, a man with sound judgment who can forecast developments in the near future, if you are to dabble in Real Estate without getting your fingers badly burned.

  16. On the other hand, the same speculator, not knowing much about acreage values, might easily get badly burnt over acreage.

  17. Polikey's shirt was all ready, nice and clean, but his shoes badly needed repairing, and this fact caused his devoted wife much anxiety.

  18. You are behaving very badly yourself, and for that reason you are wrong.

  19. During these assemblies of the Zemstvo I always slept badly in my strange quarters.

  20. Ivan and his son, seeing that their womenfolk were being badly used, jumped into the midst of the fray, and a fearful fight followed.

  21. I have seen some of them with very badly bruised faces; even the women get drunk, and shriek like furies.

  22. Some people are compelled to go to bed after coming from the woods, they are so badly stung.

  23. They seized them and shook them so heartily that he did not find out till later that they had been badly frost-bitten.

  24. The baby kept up a constant whimpering, like a lamb very badly scared.

  25. He found it very difficult to keep back his tears, but he would indeed think badly of himself if even one bright drop fell from his round blue eyes.

  26. I would tell her what I have done, and how badly I have acted.

  27. Perhaps the food won't be scattered as badly as the people.

  28. He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

  29. Excuses for absence, which involve a reference to ailments with rather unspellable names are, naturally enough, badly boggled.

  30. Things went badly with me: I didn't spare money, and I kept Matrona in hiding.

  31. Some of the grooms are horrible, and the animals get so badly treated.

  32. She had the rare and unwomanlike art of witty description, though it assorted badly with her tragic face and unsmiling eyes.

  33. It seems to me that everything gets badly treated here," Vardri muttered.

  34. My tooth ached so badly that I could not enjoy the stories, and was constantly complaining of the pain.

  35. With the assistance of some of the passengers I got him up, and found he was pretty badly hurt.

  36. He was pretty badly hurt; his nose was broken down flat with his face; the blood was running out of his ears, and I thought it was about time for me to get out.

  37. Some of the women were frozen so badly that they did not survive.

  38. I did not blame the brutes much, for they had been badly frightened.

  39. But the Prohibs are as badly at sea anent their criminal statistics as in the mortuary report.

  40. True," said the Count, with visible abstraction; and he played his game so badly that the Prince won it without difficulty.

  41. At my age to begin my wanderings, to be badly lodged, badly fed, like the servant of a pedler.

  42. The most famous temple at Ashur was that of the god Ashur himself, but unfortunately it is badly preserved, and is consequently of less archaeological importance than the Anu-Adad temple or the temple of Nebo.

  43. The latter however, being quite inadequate for the burden thus thrust upon it by the undivided waters of the Euphrates, has become badly water-logged, and much good land has become swamp.

  44. No better thought could bring out more clearly how badly the host was defeated.

  45. Children who are born with good native responsiveness to rhythm often are so badly trained or so neglected as to seem to have none, and it is part of the office of instruction to call out whatever powers lie in them latent.

  46. And the world went badly for her that night, and, after that, day and night, the world went badly.

  47. I found much of it at several "horizons" of the slope back of French Hill, and also as a cap overlying the badly cleaved and fragmented schists of the summit (three thousand feet?


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "badly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amiss; astray; awfully; awry; bad; badly; hard; hardly; harshly; ill; painfully; poorly; rigorously; roughly; seriously; severe; severely; unfavorably; wrong


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    badly frightened; badly wounded