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Example sentences for "worse"

Lexicographically close words:
worrld; worry; worrying; wors; worschipe; worsen; worsened; worsening; worser; worship
  1. Which he refusing to do, was strongly assaulted by them altogether, and his ship being pierced with many bullets, was brought into farre worse case then before, and 40 of his souldiers were slaine.

  2. Who vnto hell, can worse then hell combind?

  3. The reason, for my loue to thee I bring, Trimming the locks with Iems of dietie, Making the gods a dread a fatall day, Worse then the Giants warre or Centaurs fray.

  4. Eggs tasted none the worse for being fried in a skillet into which the rain was pattering.

  5. She went over a cliff again the next day, but I am glad to say that we took her out finally, not much the worse except for a badly cut shoulder.

  6. Scandal would say,' observed Mannering, 'he might not be the worse lawyer for that.

  7. The local magistrates, from timidity or worse motives, have become shy of acting against them, and impunity has rendered them equally daring and desperate.

  8. None of the Ellangowan family were present; and it was understood that the old Laird was rather worse than better.

  9. This speaks for itself,' said Bertram; 'but I fear something worse has happened.

  10. A tin saucepan, somewhat the worse for wear, and well blackened, was placed on his head for a helmet, and in his hands a huge cavalry sabre.

  11. It is rather worse to see than to experience, I think.

  12. Her husband smoked and laughed, and talked villainous French and worse Italian, but was glad to escape to the cabriolet in the hottest of the day, leaving his wife to her cares.

  13. To suffer the particulars of an intrigue to get about is a worse sin, in their eyes, than any violation of the commandments.

  14. Every child sings well in Italy; and I have heard worse music in a church anthem, than was made by these half-clothed and homeless wretches, running at full speed by the carriage-wheels.

  15. I wish some of these better habits of Europe were imitated in our country as readily as worse ones.

  16. Talk about yellow fever; it can not be worse than sea-sickness.

  17. The old gentleman at last remonstrated, and the young man's affairs being even worse than he had dared to represent, he became desperate and unscrupulous.

  18. She wondered if she could be worse off if she ran away, with the earth for her pillow, the skies for her shelter?

  19. Anne, dismissing the bland smile from her face as the last fold of madame's dress fluttered through the door; "after all, she might do worse than to adopt this child.

  20. If you are seen here after daylight, the worse for you.

  21. She wept a good deal; but she wept gracefully, and hers was one of those faces which looked none the worse for tears.

  22. But I will not keep you in suspense, for that is worse than all now.

  23. My good friend, Monsieur Pelisson, I trust that you will not be any the worse for this short, though unpleasant, sojourn in the forest.

  24. Their condition in ancient times must have been still worse than it now is.

  25. Thus is that once glorious city of the rich king Croesus now reduced to a nest of worse than beggars.

  26. I am afraid he won't think your beauty improved--but I am sure he won't like you the worse for that.

  27. You doom me to worse than death by this submission.

  28. And this I pray you, wish me not worse good-speed in this matter than you wish yourselves.

  29. He will be as safe there as anywhere else, and you will be none the worse for a can of good liquor, and a slice of one of Dame Trusbut's notable pasties.

  30. Worse than that they brought him in debt, and his body was taken upon the covenants in deeds to lands, which he had in point of fact given away.

  31. But, as there could be no doubt that his death by torture was fully determined, the prisoner was resolved on one desperate effort to escape, for in no sense could a failure result in making his condition worse than before.

  32. Their condition became so much worse on the fourth day, that, strong men as they were, they felt it was useless to strive longer.

  33. Matters became worse and worse, and the whippings of the teacher were so indiscriminate and brutal, that a rebellion was excited.

  34. The Israelites danced and sang "at the inauguration of the golden calf.

  35. But, worse than that, poor Firmian had fretted, and laughed, himself into an illness.

  36. But when they have been found fault with they are worse than deadly sins, and felonies, and adulteries--seeing that they occur much more frequently.

  37. Things seemed distinctly worse with him--he could not disguise from himself that he was losing ground; at all events he resolved to "set his house in order.

  38. Collect yourself, and think of our cobbler here, does his soup taste any the worse to him out of his painted iron sauciere because his bit of roast meat is eaten out of it too?

  39. And supposing you really could never pay them back, and were to die in sober earnest, I should take care that their treasury was none the worse for it as soon as I was in funds again.

  40. Little authors," he said, "are always better than their works, and great ones are worse than theirs.

  41. These sayings, and worse besides, Lenette could draw from the most authentic of all sources of history.

  42. If I die first I'll write you a letter and tell you if it's any worse down there than the inside of that yellow house was; but don't believe it yet.

  43. Susie has it worse than I do, because the men who eat at railroad stations gobble.

  44. I've fought wolves and Indians and worse white men to protect you.

  45. When she had yielded to impulse, things had been worse still.

  46. But worse than that, the name seemed to be of no consequence.

  47. I couldn't be worse off if I was a what's-his-name-man and a brother!

  48. I hope you won't think the worse of me for having made these little appointments at Miss Flite's, where I first went with you; because I like the poor thing for her own sake, and I believe she likes me.

  49. I was going to say, we really are going on worse than ever.

  50. The sight of a vacant, discontented face in that opposite chair will be worse than solitude.

  51. Worse still, they were--or believed they were, navigating above the sea.

  52. Hand over your coin, or it'll be the worse for you," chimed in another ruffianly voice.

  53. By this piece of Fourberie, to give it no worse a Name, he thought to have eluded the severe, but just imputation cast upon him by Sir W.

  54. It was too much to set out on a journey the moment he had finished a voyage, and fifty miles by land, was worse than a thousand leagues by sea.

  55. So that she had not, and what was worse her children, 'for she had known sorrow enough,' a bed to lie on.

  56. Florence has changed very much for the worse since that time.

  57. It made it worse because I knew that I was acting for my own sake more than hers, because I wasn't--disinterested.

  58. The fiendish howling constantly grew worse and was soon almost as bad as that of the wolves ever was.

  59. Though, indeed, I was soon to wake up in another and worse place than Track's End; but of this I will tell later.

  60. It was a little satisfaction, however, to know that he had failed to get off with his stolen property even if it had fallen into the hands of a worse set of thieves.

  61. No country in the world is worse supplied with game, and in a few years the game will be entirely annihilated, owing to the extreme inclemency of the winters, and there being no cover for them in the woods.

  62. Worse than that, you would get cold and terrified if I go out to my fishing-grounds and stay as I am accustomed to.

  63. Meanwhile, a future deluge must be worse than the former one to reach him upon the summit of this almost completed structure.

  64. But seeing now how sorrow sorrow breeds, All that my cruel foes against me plot, For my worse pain, and for my death is not.

  65. So long have barr'd and bann'd, But love alone, who with his haughty lights The more allures me as he worse excites, Till nature fails against his constant wiles.

  66. Such people as he imagine, on account of riches ill-acquired, and worse employed, that they are at liberty to say what they please.

  67. My heart to visit one so dear to me, But Fortune--can she ever worse decree?

  68. And mine is worse because immortal still, Since from the heart the spirit may not tear.

  69. Shame, worse than aught of loss, in honour's eye!

  70. At Venice, moreover, the philosophy of Aristotle was much in vogue, if doctrines could be called Aristotelian, which had been disfigured by commentators, and still worse garbled by Averroes.

  71. This thought awhile sustains me, but again To fail me and forsake in worse excess of pain.

  72. Her nose was crooked & turnd outward, Her mouth stood foule a-wry; A worse formed lady than shee was, Neuer man saw with his eye.

  73. Chiel Wyet and Lord Ingram Was baith born in one hall; Laid baith their hearts on one lady, The worse did them befall.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggravated; amplified; annoyed; better; broken; burst; busted; changeable; changed; converted; cracked; cut; damaged; degenerate; divergent; embittered; enhanced; enlarged; exasperated; harmed; heightened; impaired; imperfect; improved; increased; injured; intensified; irritated; lacerated; magnified; mangled; modified; mutant; mutilated; provoked; qualified; rebuilt; reformed; renewed; rent; revived; revolutionary; ruptured; scalded; scorched; shattered; slashed; slit; smashed; soured; split; sprung; subversive; torn; transformed; transmuted; unmitigated; weakened; worse; worsened


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    worse luck; worse still; worse than; worse then