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How to use the word Worst in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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As children, we played cowboys and Indians through the fields and forests, looking for foes as though being set upon was the worst we’d face. As children we found horseshoes, dusty hidden treasures buried in dirt, and we’d take them home and hang them on our walls alongside our Farrah and football posters. Innately we knew that someday we’d grow out of this, so mornings and afternoons we’d carry on, content, a real word in our small vocabulary.

– Scott C. Holstad

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1 day ago

[W]e made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers.

– Robert E. Lee

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5 months ago

What is the worst thing you’ve done for love? Exist! I hate existing, I wish I didn’t exist, but I do everyday because allegedly, there is someone out there on earth who’s ‘perfect’ for me. Yeah, I don’t believe any of that. What if there’s no one? Have we ever thought about that? What if we were just destined to be alone forever?

– Conan Gray

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8 months ago

All these cities like Bakersfield and Visalia are in a valley near the forests that are seeing big fires. There’s also intense agricultural and industrial work there, so they unfortunately have all the worst conditions for air pollution.

– Tarik Benmarhnia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They could move a number of less controversial nominees right now. Right now, they want to sideline Senator Feinstein, so they can ram through the worst four as well.

– Mitch McConnell

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1 year ago

As disruptive and as damaging as this year’s flooding has been, it’s still nowhere near close to what we foresee is the plausible worst-case scenario, we know that climate change is essentially putting the weather on steroids and giving us greater and greater chances of seeing these extremely heavy precipitation events and severe floods, even as we also see more severe droughts and that in the same part of the world.

– Daniel Swain

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1 year ago

It was the third worst thing that’s ever happened to me.

– Tony Montalto

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1 year ago

As audiences, we love both optimistic and pessimistic science-fiction films like these precisely because they are virtual laboratories where we can imaginatively experience the best and worst our technologies have to offer in a safe and fun environment.

– Lisa Yaszek

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1 year ago

I’ve had young athletes I’ve had to talk to about this. You have nothing to prove. Tell them how you actually feel and never lie about your symptoms. Pushing through because you don’t want them to think you’re weak is the worst thing you can do, i am a gold medalist, and I struggle with that. So I can’t imagine a high school kid – they’re just starting the path, chasing the dream. And they don’t want their coach to think they’re weak, or their parents or their teammates.

– Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Attacks still happen, but they really have been reduced to small groups of effectively organized crime gangs. They don’t have anything like the weapons or reach that the IRA did. Nor do they have a coherent ideology. They might still be active, but the idea they could carry out anything on the scale of the worst days is just unimaginable now.

– Norman Baxter

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1 year ago

The message is really simple and it has been since before Nashville, one of the worst times to make knee jerk policy and administrative actions is after a high profile incident like this when you’re in a highly emotional state.

– Ken Trump

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1 year ago

The fact that you missed the worst storm last week doesn’t mean that that fortune will hold Friday.

– Bill Bunting

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1 year ago

I explain it to my students because, you know, they need to know what they should do if the worst happens.

– Joe Biden

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1 year ago

April is coming at us like a freight train. And of course, it always screams severe weather across this part of the country. all the right ingredients come together in April to make April typically our worst month for severe weather.

– Michael Berry

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1 year ago

All the right ingredients come together in April to make April typically our worst month for severe weather.

– Michael Berry

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1 year ago

Whenever investors hear of a ‘data breach,’ they tend to assume the worst … it seems much of the doom and gloom was priced in two weeks ago when news of the cyberattack first broke.

– Matt Simpson

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1 year ago

I think that the worst is over; the Federal Reserve has been very, very tough and very, very clear that they will backstop any further run against the banking system or banking institutions, so I think that is on the mend.

– Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those of us who work in the maternity care space have known that this is a problem in our country for quite a long time. And each time the new statistics come out, we’re hopeful that some of the efforts that have been going on are going to shift the direction of this trend. It’s really disappointing to see that the trend is not going in the right direction but, at some level, is going in the worst direction and at a little bit of a faster rate, in the health care system, we need to accept ultimate responsibility for the women who die in our care.

– Elizabeth Langen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

AHC is the worst disease I have ever worked with in terms of the level of stress, for both parents and physicians. Episodes can strike at any time, and it is not readily clear when an episode is going to be catastrophic and require a hospital visit or urgent intervention, they have to reconsider everything.

– Kathryn Swoboda

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1 year ago

This is one of the worst maritime smuggling tragedies that I can think of in California. Certainly, here in the city of San Diego.

– James Gartland

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1 year ago

This is the absolute worst outcome for a stalking case.

– Redmond Police Chief Darrell Lowe

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1 year ago

From a policy perspective, we have to prepare for the worst.

– Aixue Hu

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1 year ago

Hope for the best but plan for the worst, I think is the right advice.

– Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers

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1 year ago

They haven’t just survived the worst humanitarian disaster in their country’s history, they’ve been suffering war crimes and have been failed by the international community over and over again, at the very least, we need to provide them the humanitarian aid to help them survive, when many won’t survive even another day.

– Mouaz Moustafa

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1 year ago

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