How to Use egregious in a Sentence

egregious

adjective
  • The most egregious mishap came in the first half.
    — Chad Graff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • But in terms of mileage, none of the drives are that egregious.
    — Brendan Hay, SPIN, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Some of them haven't been that bad, and some of them have been egregious.
    — Mike Miller, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2025
  • But the egregious failures do not end there.
    — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
  • As miscues went in this game, this was the least egregious.
    — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Those weren’t his most egregious actions, though.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2026
  • But he’s made some egregious errors.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • That is still five years behind the rest of the city, but the gap is no longer so egregious.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • For a crew to do that in a playoff game, the conduct has to be egregious.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The agency has not said who was behind the group or its most egregious posts.
    — A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2020
  • If the conduct was found to be egregious, the penalties could triple.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • That meant the court wasn’t aware of some of the more egregious incidents.
    — Lynn Thompson, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
  • Jackie looked around the parking lot to see how egregious her fault might be in his eyes.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Is there one lie that seems to be the most repeated or, in your view, is the most egregious?
    — Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • This is an egregious abuse of power by someone sworn to uphold the law.
    — Dan Gooding gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
  • All of it makes the lack of action on Bennett even more egregious.
    — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 17 Dec. 2017
  • There were no career-ending gaffes, no egregious flubs that would force him to pull out of the race.
    — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
  • But those close to Comey say that is an egregious misreading of the man.
    — Max Kutner, Newsweek, 13 Apr. 2017
  • Of all the frustrating outcomes in this show, this one is the most egregious.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The most egregious crime was outright directing him where to point and shoot.
    — Amy Fine Collins, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2018
  • The first is that the interest rates on most credit cards are, frankly, egregious.
    — Julian Kheel, CNN Underscored, 18 June 2020
  • And the process repeats itself, getting worse and more egregious each time.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018
  • When a teacher stands to lose his or her job for egregious behavior, whose side is the union on?
    — Kristen McQueary, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Then again, sticking around past the end of the party is equally, if not more, egregious.
    — Holiday Mathis, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The Campaign to Save Roe is in many ways even more egregious.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 9 May 2022
  • One of the most egregious parts of this is a tax on a recreational home or a vacation home.
    — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Every season is more egregious than the last and this one is no different.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The most egregious of these offenders is now back with a third installment.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The most egregious breach of trust at the Supreme Court that has ever happened.
    — NBC News, 8 May 2022
  • Legs were wound down to nubs and heads inflated to egregious proportions.
    — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026

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