Use worse in a sentence
Sentences starting with worse
- Worse than the wolf that licked the hand of the man who bandaged its wounds, he would have shown his teeth to the preserver of his life. [10]
- Worse still, he was being plied with champagne, and was already showing some effect from it. [5]
- Worse still are the monstrous doublets, reaching down to the middle of the thighs, so hard quilted, stuffed, bombasted, and sewed that the wearer can hardly stoop down in them. [4]
- Worse than this is the torturing of dying people to get their evidence in favor of this or that favorite belief. [6]
- Worse things are in store for you. [5]
- Worse than that, he is a magazine writer. [4]
- Worse than this, he had taken off his hat and begged her pardon before he looked at her and realized the enormity of his mistake. [9]
- Worse things than finance are troubling him now. [9]
- Worse than that. [5]
Sentences ending with worse
- Indeed, I warn you that any money you may send will be spent in drink, and--and worse. [9]
- Perhaps even something worse? [5]
- But they do worse. [5]
- They make it worse. [13]
- Nicholas' position became worse and worse. [2]
- The old physician wondered at her sound constitution, for since her plunge into the water the fever had left her and even the injured foot was not much the worse. [10]
- But if you will go out of your set, you might do a great deal worse. [4]
- It was he who had prevented Bigot from taking Mathilde away from Alixe, and locking her up, or worse. [11]
- The case of Wallis Plimpton was even worse. [9]
- The New York Tribune was for it, and understood it to mean that we must accept gradual emancipation according to the plan suggested, or get something worse. [7]
Short sentences using worse
- And I've et worse pies. [5]
- It was worse than that. [5]
- It's worse than Sodom. [4]
- This can be no worse. [11]
- It might have been worse. [11]
- And suddenly she became worse. [9]
- Things got worse and worse. [11]
- This morning I am worse. [14]
- She is worse. [11]
- Nay, worse! [10]
Sentences containing worse two or more times
- Master Pigeon grew worse and worse under these inflictions. [6]
- It comforted her to reflect that she was not better as she had formerly imagined, but worse, much worse, than anybody else in the world. [2]
- It's a thousand times worse than that--oh, yes, a million times worse. [5]
- He was worse than the minstrels, worse than the clown in the circus. [5]
- He'd have your old father up to-morrow for selling a tired traveller a glass of brandy; and worse than that, ay, a great sight worse than that, mind you, Jen. [11]
- Quiet for some minutes, and that was grateful to my spirit, for then my fears began to go down; and fears are worse than pains--oh, much worse. [5]
- To exercise human love is to be good, but they no longer know it, and what is worse, a thousand times worse, they constantly destroy in me and mine the desire to be good, good in the sense of their own Master. [10]
- After months of labor to reconcile the difficulty, it seemed to grow worse and worse, until I felt it my duty to break it up somehow; and as I could not remove Governor Gamble, I had to remove General Curtis. [7]
- The river the higher grew worse and worse. [4]
- We seem to get worse and worse off all the time. [5]
More example sentences with the word worse in them
- You're famished when you're not poisoned; you're badly clothed and badly fed; you're kept together by flogging; you're treated worse than a convict in jail or a victim in a plague hospital. [11]
- But connected with you two is a third party, a villain of the name of Quilp, the prime mover of the whole diabolical device, who I believe to be worse than either. [12]
- Ranulph, I want you to know that I am at least no worse than you thought me. [11]
- But I'm kept, you see, for a worse fate and a sadder. [11]
- In 1817, perhaps you remember, the law of wager by battle was unrepealed, and the rascally murderous, and worse than murderous, clown, Abraham Thornton, put on his gauntlet in open court and defied the appellant to lift the other which he threw down. [6]
- Why, Cap., don't you know, it's as much as a hundred times worse in there now than it was when he first got a-going. [5]
- He knows and you know that the question is not settled, and that his ill-timed experiment to settle it has made it worse than it ever was before. [7]
- I do hope you are worse scared than hurt, though you ought to know best. [7]
- Everybody believed I would die; but on the fourteenth day a change came for the worse and they were disappointed. [5]
- Think the very worst of me, and yet perhaps you will hear worse said of me. [10]
- Things had grown worse, until the day of catastrophe, when Byng had been sent for by the leaders of both parties to the quarrel. [11]
- His eyes grew worse, and on the very day which brought us the news of your safe arrival in Babylon, Amasis became totally blind. [10]
- Diodoros was no worse, and Galen was certainly expected to visit the sick in the Serapeum. [10]
- It was still worse when night begun to come on. [5]
- Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties? [12]
- I have witnessed worse things in this house. [10]
- Nothing can be worse than what we have to suffer now, so let's make a break for it. [11]
- And those were worse than the first. [9]
- Salem was no worse than some other plantations on the island, but it was far behind such plantations as that owned by Dyck Calhoun, and had been notorious for the cruelties committed on it. [11]
- My parg is worse than my pidte, I cuess. [8]
- You have been worse than intrusive; you have been rash and stupid. [11]
- And it was worse than his, for she was a jealous woman--jealous even of her friends. [13]
- It was far worse than he could have imagined, the way his wife took the affair, though he had imagined certain words, or perhaps only looks, from her that were bad enough. [8]
- But this is worse than ever, and she will lie for hours with her face turned to the wall, and not even Antoinette can arouse her. [9]
- They treat them worse than dogs. [5]
- There's plenty of worse people than the nobilities. [5]
- So much the worse for the Russian army.... Go on... harder, harder! [2]
- So much the worse for her; he was the Emperor. [10]
- She will be worse before she is better. [5]
- Bessie had grown worse and she, her mother, had not even inquired for the little one. [10]
- True, the old woman, her mother, is worse still; she scolds and screams. [10]
- John prayed, but without feeling any worse, and then went desperately into the house, and told the family that he was in an anxious state of mind. [4]
- I was wroth with the hard and bitter world for its cruelty; yet it was in truth that very world, and its pitiless call to duty, which at that time rescued me from worse things. [10]
- Americans were overwhelmed with questions, taunts, threats, misrepresentations, the outgrowth of ignorance, and ignoring worse than ignorance, from every class of Englishmen. [6]
- The whole Bankside, with its taverns, play-houses, and worse, its bear pits and gardens, was the scene of roystering and coarse amusement. [4]
- She was content with her lot; and if any change for the worse were in prospect she would rather not be tormented beforehand by a wise prophet; nor was it better to be deluded by a foolish one. [10]
- The Emersonian adept will pardon me for burdening this beautiful Essay with a commentary which is worse than superfluous for him. [6]
- And from Arsinoe, whose residence she discovered from the deaconess, she met with even a worse reception. [10]
- The young fellow, who usually had behaved no worse than the other Ephebi, had always returned from such festivities with a flushed face and unsteady steps, but to-night he had not even reached his room in the upper story. [10]
- He grows worse who continues in sin because he thinks himself forgiven. [5]
- She was as white as ever, but she was looking no whit worse than she looked when she had first appeared the day before. [5]
- But Philip wondered what would be the effect on his own character and on his intellect if he indulged much in the habit of making the worse appear the better cause, and taking up indifferently any side that paid. [4]
- I don't know what the Queen would think of this way of spending Sunday; but if Albert Edward never does anything worse, he does n't need half the praying for that he gets every Sunday in all the English churches and chapels. [4]
- All the rest were cases of grave disease; and so far as the trial, which was interrupted about the fortieth day, extended, the patients grew worse, or received no benefit. [3]
- The further we went the worse the roads were, and yet when my companions turned at the city-gate to ride homewards again, a strange, fierce confidence came upon me. [10]
- As the days went on, and the weeks, he was less and less at home, and in a worse humor--that is, at home. [4]
- During the ensuing weeks, Senora Petra prepared Coello many bad days and still worse nights; but the painter persisted in his resolution to give Isabella to Ulrich, if in a year and a half he returned from Italy a skilful artist. [10]
- But the doubt was worse, perhaps, than certainty would have been,--for then he would have known what to do. [6]
- And yet, worse was to come. [5]
- We judged they was studying up some kind of worse deviltry than ever. [5]
- Young Aleck's face was flushed with bad liquor and the worse excitement of play. [11]
- I do not want to make myself out worse than I am; it grieves me too to see them drooping. [10]
- Can a woman walk the dance with evil, and be no worse for it by-and-bye? [11]
- He has no virtues; and yet he would have been a thousand times worse, if you had not come into his life. [11]
- It occurred to Venters then that Wrangle had drunk his fill, and did not seem the worse for it, and might be anything but easy to catch. [13]
- She continues to vary; is sometimes worse, and sometimes better, as the weather changes; but, on the whole, I fear she loses strength. [14]
- True, he has vanquished foes enough, but the demon of melancholy, that makes even Dr. Mathys anxious, is far worse than the infidels before whom you were compelled to retreat in Algiers--far more terrible than the Turks and heretics combined. [10]
- Yet once or twice, they said, men had come up from it no worse at all. [11]
- I suppose every turn in it, every tree that has a knoll at the foot where two persons can sit, has witnessed a tragedy, or, what is worse, a comedy. [4]
- Alone, if we try to shake off the yoke that binds us we shall be shattered, and our last end be worse than our first. [11]
- My cough still troubles me a good deal, especially in the night, and, what seems worse than all, I am subject to great shortness of breath on going up-stairs or any slight exertion. [14]
- And the policy towards it could not have been much worse, either to impress it with a respect for authority or to win it by conciliation; it has been a strange mixture of untimely concession and untimely cruelty. [4]
- It was weariful to wade through them, and when at last I reached the Im Hoff house Master Ulsenius called to me down the stairs: "Silence, Mistress Margery; there is worse weather in here than without doors! [10]
- His original kindness to the woman had given him many troubled hours at home, for Madame Dauphin had construed his human sympathy into the dark and carnal desires of the heart, and his truthful eloquence had made his case the worse. [11]
- If he went to the Baas with his suspicions, the chance was that he would be flayed with a sjambok and turned into the streets; if he warned Jasmine, the same thing might happen, or worse. [11]
- What was it to me that his grammar was bad, his construction worse, and his profanity so void of art that it was an element of weakness rather than strength in his conversation? [5]
- If you got to be the sultan of sultans yourself, I shouldn't like you any better, or any worse. [9]
- When Italian comes to be substituted I shall be even worse off than I am now, I suppose. [5]
- I have not time to make a speech at length, and not strength to make them on every occasion; and, worse than all, I have none to make. [7]
- For the first time in her life she knew sorrow, and it made it worse that that sorrow was indefinable. [9]
- Still, the ten thousand pounds went to David and Hope where they smilingly laboured through the time of high Nile and low Nile, and khamsin and sirocco, and cholera, and, worse than all, the banishments to the hot Siberia of Fazougli. [11]
- Yet no one thought the worse of them for that, especially at first. [11]
- At first both thought that they felt a beneficial result; but soon their condition changed for the worse, and their illness constantly increased. [10]
- At first Philip thought he would die, and forswore wine and cards, and some other things the taste for which he had cultivated, and likewise worse vices that had come to him by nature. [9]
- She felt as though there were something in her which forced her to seem much worse than she really was, and wished to be. [10]
- The case is this: my father's health is growing noticeably worse, he cannot stand any contradiction and is becoming irritable. [2]
- And, worse than this, the estimate she placed upon the values of material things was shockingly inadequate to her position. [4]
- And worse than this, it was discovered that the last grand charge the engine had made upon the enemy had broken the fore-and-aft shaft of the driving-wheel! [5]
- Every day after this made matters worse. [6]
- But, on the third day after Hosea's return, Hornecht had gone to talk with him and since then everything had changed for the worse. [10]
- The state of things was worse than she thought at first; but one thing cheered her: the people were better than she thought. [4]
- This state of things is continually becoming worse and makes one fear that unless a prompt remedy is applied the troops will no longer be under control in case of an engagement. [2]
- I hear that things are worse there in every way than they have been in our lifetime. [11]
- It only makes things a hundred times worse. [5]
- I said a thing worse than that when Mrs. Crozier"--her fingers motioned towards another room--"came to-day. [11]
- But there's one thing that'll be worse than anything else to you. [11]
- By that memory, then, of the time when they took each other for better or for worse, until death should part them? [11]
- If they show themselves where they have no business, the little rascals frighten honest folks worse than ever people were frightened by the Dragon of Rhodes! [6]
- Therefore, to humour them both was the only thing, and Norman's was the worse case. [11]
- In this case their conduct is not much worse than that of the North American Indians, who leave their feeble comrades to perish on the plains; or the Fijians, who, when their parents get old, or fall ill, bury them alive. [1]
- Seems but little the worse for wear. [6]
- They were both the worse for rum they had had on the road, the big man talking very loud and boastfully. [9]
- Cheer up, mother, the world's no worse than it was. [9]
- The feud between the towns is worse now than it's ever been. [11]
- And so now, the thought of its being there, so handy and close by, and yet not get-at-able, made it all the worse and the harder to bear. [5]
- The sentence which the Ry had passed was worse than death (and it meant death, too), for it made him an outcast from his people, and to be outcast was to be thrown into the abyss. [11]
- We will take the road that promises to have that end, and we would not turn out of it, if it were a hundred times worse than our fears lead us to expect. [12]
- A few of the riff-raff, who invariably attend these public scenes, were now rather the worse for drink, from the indifferent liquor provided by the auctioneer, and they were inclined to horseplay and coarse chaff. [11]
- The inmates dislike the proposal, saying that a shower-bath is no worse than a tub-bath. [4]
- Yes, and worse, the prophet, Mr. [9]
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