How to Use the worst in a Sentence

the worst

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  • The tales of the worst days sound like scenes from a big-screen survival thriller.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The Razzies, as they’re (un)affectionately known, have celebrated the best of the worst in film since 1980.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The shooting percentage was the worst of the season and the five 3-pointers was two off the team’s season low.
    — James Weber, The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Based on the novel by Gore Vidal, the 1970 film is often cited as one of the worst ever made.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • But the Huskies struggled with their backups in, especially so on the defensive end, against the worst team in the Big East.
    — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The latest figures seemed to affirm the worst fears of many U.S. consumers and businesses.
    — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • And that’s despite getting saddled with some of the worst reviews and audience scores in the entire MCU.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Specifically, Iowa is one of the worst midrange defenses in the nation.
    — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
  • One of the worst winter storms of the 21st century is about to hit the Southern California mountains.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The quake is among the worst natural disasters in the world this century and the deadliest in Turkey since 1939.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Economic fears The latest figures seemed to affirm the worst fears of many U.S. consumers and businesses.
    — CBS News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The area around the Georgia-South Carolina border has largely been spared from the worst hurricane landfalls because of the way the coastline bends inward.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Hollenbach believes this is why kids have generally been spared the worst outcomes of Covid.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • He’d been sent to patrol the West Indies, generally considered the worst assignment in the Navy because of the spectre of disease.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • My personal tradition was ducking beneath the dashboard while the worst fighting blew past.
    — Bart Bull, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • This year the awards also gave themselves a trophy for their blunder in nominating a child in the worst actress category.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The retreating water has exposed huge expanses of lake bed, and with wind stirring up dust from them, air quality in the Imperial Valley is among the worst in the state.
    — Henry Fountain Mette Lampcov, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
  • But analysts said that would be the worst outcome — one that makes little financial sense and comes with its own public relations pitfalls.
    — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Wanting the worst for Alabama as an opposing fan is not the same thing as wanting justice for Harris’ death, and the nuance of distinction isn’t hard to understand.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Consider that in the United States, daily hospitalizations and deaths, while lower than at the worst peaks, have not yet dropped to the low levels reached during summer 2021 before the delta variant wave.
    — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Mar. 2023
  • While protests have occurred throughout the nation, the worst violence has been in the rural and indigenous south, which saw Castillo’s ouster as another attempt by Peru’s coastal elites to discount them.
    — Tara John, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Dish Network was the worst performer in the S&P 500 Monday afternoon, with shares down more than 6% amid an ongoing service outage with the company's internal systems.
    — Jack Pitcher, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2023
  • After the 2015 outbreak, which up to that point was the worst poultry producers could imagine, the industry focused on identifying the human networks that made its farms vulnerable.
    — WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
  • If these projections are right, the superhero pic is in danger of suffering the worst second-weekend decline ever for a Hollywood superhero pic opening to $100 million or more at the domestic box office, and one of the of worst for any such movie.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Most patients experience the worst symptoms as dosages are initially ramped up, with your gastrointestinal tract beginning to slow down, Dr. Mahali explains.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Perhaps the worst example of contemporary misinformation is the 1619 Project, which constitutes a libel against our own history.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, utilities, real estate, and pharmaceuticals were among the worst performing.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023

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