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Example sentences for "botch"

Lexicographically close words:
botanist; botanists; botanizing; botany; botas; botched; botches; bote; botes; both
  1. You have to beat most everything you teach a child right into it properly to keep it from making such a botch of things as that.

  2. Of course her father had made a botch of it!

  3. John Burnit would be half crazy if he could know what a botch his son is making of things.

  4. They should be smitten with the botch of Egypt, and a sore botch in the legs that cannot be healed.

  5. His pride's insupportable, and he's been rash enough to try to botch my work for me.

  6. The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, the scab and the itch, with madness and blindness, that thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness.

  7. One line suggests the great size that the plague-buboes sometimes reached: "Here swells a botch as high as hide can hold.

  8. When you don't care how you botch a job it's time for you to walk out.

  9. Care should be taken, in properly forming a road at first, otherwise you may botch it for a whole century, and at the end of that long period, it will be only a botch itself.

  10. But I was angry and mortified as I had never been before, realizing for the first time what a botch I had made of my stay in London.

  11. You couldn't botch it worsen Hammer has, and you might do some good.

  12. A guile seemingly so guileless that yours, compared with it, is botch work.

  13. The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

  14. The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

  15. They sure make a botch of sewing, but they don't ever make a botch of being kind.

  16. I'd made a botch of my own life, and here I was engaged in an attempt to make a botch of his.

  17. The plumber is not usually supplied with tools of the right kind for doing this, and is as liable to botch carpenter work as a carpenter would be to botch the plumbing work.

  18. But we are now beginning to see that man has made a botch of farming only because he looked upon it as a sort of humdrum occupation; as a means provided by nature for living-getting for those who were not good for much else.

  19. In other words, to go through life conscious that you are making a botch of your capabilities just because of lack of training, is a most depressing thing.

  20. It is a disgrace for a man with a liberal education to botch his work, demoralize his ideals, discredit his teachers, dishonor the institution which has given him his chance to be a superior man.

  21. She had put in her idle moments during the last little while back, in designing a particularly rare and capable gown for herself, and this morning she set about making it up; but she was absent minded, and made an irremediable botch of it.

  22. The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

  23. The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

  24. If we read inferior books, or associate with perpetual failures, with people who botch their work and botch their lives our own standards will suffer from the contagion.

  25. He has but one way in which he can do it; and, if he do not immediately begin to work in that way, pack him off to get a bricklayer, even a botch in which trade will perform the work to the truth of a hair.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "botch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.