How to Use the bad in a Sentence

the bad

noun
  • Both people shape the good and the bad.
    — Dr. Tracy Dalgleish, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But the bad doesn’t outweigh the good.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Learn from it all—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The cruelest part is that the good ones are mixed with the bad ones.
    — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2025
  • And the sad part of that is, the bad guys aren't giving up their guns.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • All the dark stuff, all the bad things that hurt me, all the wounds that are still there.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The winters keep the bad people away.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • There’s the good, the bad and the ugly kind of thing going on.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2023
  • And were the good ones really so good that the bad ones were worth it?
    — Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Alexander recalls giving the bad news to one prospect.
    — Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • With her return, Doherty turned the page on the bad press of the past.
    — Ale Russian, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2024
  • Her world has been destroyed, and the bad guys responsible are still out there.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Here is the good, the bad, and the bottom line with Madden 25.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • But the bad days have been plentiful, and the boiling point was predictable.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The cast of Melrose Place is getting down to the good, the bad and the dirty!
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2024
  • The Penguins need to eliminate the bad starts.
    — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Looked for the other one but couldn’t find him, probably died from the bad weather and hunger.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • On the good days, on the bad days, just continuing to do it every single day.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The obvious starting point of this film was that AI was the bad guy.
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • In the bad ending, Fettel takes her child and eats her to absorb her power.
    — Will Borger, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • All the bad press for the single didn’t even amount to an ironic streaming victory.
    — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 15 July 2024
  • Students are expected to clear the house – shoot the bad guys and spare the innocent.
    — William La Jeunesse, FOXNews.com, 2 May 2025
  • Even in those moments, Bailey sought a balance between the good and the bad.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Passover is about the imperative to remember, both the good and the bad.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Weir also never succumbed to the bad habits of many of his bandmates, or at least never so deeply.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Of all the bad-hair-day culprits, matted hair can be the most stubborn and frustrating.
    — Grace McCarty, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This has been incredibly frustrating, but even in the bad, there is good.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This has been incredibly frustrating, but even in the bad, there is good.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The motivation of the bad actor doesn’t emerge just from code forensics.
    — Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Healthy reflection means seeing both the good and the bad, then moving forward.
    — Dr. Tracy Dalgleish, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025

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