Instead of focusing exclusively on punishing bad behavior, staff now track and reward good behavior. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Worse than surgeries, or infections, or waking up on a bad morning barely able to breathe. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I cleared my throat, said: “Maybe boring isn’t so bad compared to other stuff that could happen.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Others warned Smith that War Admiral’s bad works may have been designed to fool Smith about the colt’s condition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it anything but a bad smell. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

What might Malthuss ideas mean—for better or for worse—to society? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

After my father died, when I was thirteen, it only got worse. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment—far worse than my abandonment—how it goaded me! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever Marlinton normally looked like, it was that much worse under the cover of gray clouds and a layer of misty rain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Seven years’ bad luck,” she says, shaking her head. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

That, combined with my stinging pride, made me feel even worse. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They had bad habits, silly cravings and just about every weakness a person might have. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And the long-winged birds like swifts, I suppose they are the worst, for they can't rise from a flat surface at all?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You needn’t feel bad. Enjoy the money. I think you’ll find you’ve earned every penny. It’s hot as Hades up here in July” “But where will you be going?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But they are still twenty miles from the airport, and there is an enormous amount of bad weather still ahead of them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

That was something Romans typically called a bad omen. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“And we don’t know exactly what awaits us. Who’s to say if their lives will be any better or worse than ours?” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not as bad as with American blacks, you say? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They’re not like Westerns, where you know who the bad guy is supposed to be. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It’s past the outskirts of the city and has good and bad parts. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Look,” I say finally, “if he’s in bad shape, let me talk to August or Uncle Al and see if we can get a doctor out in Dubuque.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Let's just say when a little cute finds a little cute, well, the world doesn't look half bad. You know what I'm saying?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

All those bad things came right to mind. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I swim a quarter-mile a day because I have a bad disc at the base of my spine. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I climb down to give the others the bad news. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt, however, took a turn for the worse. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“But don’t you think a bunch of smart people like these Bureau scientists could figure out the cause of bad behavior?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But when Tabitha got worse, my mother became frantic and gave in. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only it’s too bad because Mr. Neely noticed, and we were no longer his star pupils. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I pushed the roast beef around on my plate so Mama wouldn’t feel bad, but thinking about Bucky so hard made me lose my appetite. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“No, exactly how many bad things happened to you?” he said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Humbaba had the worst case of irritable bowel syndrome known to medical science. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The roof would be difficult because her bad leg made it almost impossible for her to climb. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she needs to be able to beg Voldemort for Harry’s life, she needs to think he might die, and you’re the worst spoiler in the world that didn’t turn out to be true . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“First the sheep, and then the lobsters,” Osh said, “and off the water before the wind gets any worse. There’s just time for both.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jake tapped the sides of his head the way some people do when the TV is getting bad reception. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that maybe the Doctorita makes them feel bad about their lives as homemakers, mournful they don’t have their own careers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever had worn them had had a bad case of foot odor. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Look, Ashley, you need to make peace with what happened with your mother before you can feel secure with anyone else. I have read the records. Like most people, she has good and bad points.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The only mess worse than the damage made in the kitchen was the so-called food Dad served us. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

You had to hand it to me, I thought: I had a knack for living up to the old man’s worst expectations. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now the king’s suspicions are aroused, and he is as dangerous as a baited bear. It is bad enough that Hamlet rages like a madman.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Much later on that night, Bloom suddenly awoke out of a bad dream and discovered that she was up on one elbow staring at him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a bad headache and my stomach hurts,” I told her, putting my elbows up on the table. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He hooked his bad leg in the rigging, ignoring the pain, checked the sight on his rifle, and began picking off anyone in range. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mate’s asthma was worse than ever and Mama had transferred her to a closer school in San Francisco. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no avocado and sprout sandwiches, the coffee is not espresso, the pie is coconut cream and no worse than it was then. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like trying to talk sense into Zane, she thought, or scolding a bad puppy. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want her to feel bad. Who wants a kid who’s crazy?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The van drove away and disappeared like a bad memory. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Cyril suspected that the discussion of bad taste alluded to his loud pants. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When something bad happens, you gather the family and count heads. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think this is the appropriate time for bad news. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“If you try to interfere with us it will be the worse for you. Silver and Blackberry, take the does and go on. The rest of us will join you.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough they drowned porpoises and dolphins, but they also occasionally caught mythological animals. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know the details. The Grievers do bad things to you, make your whole body go through something awful. When it’s over, you’re . . . different.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

From the trains, everything is visible: the bare feet, the crooked backs, the bad teeth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too bad I couldn’t train Fig to clean my room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She can’t tell if it’s a good ache or a bad one, and so she just holds Ruth’s hands and squeezes back. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If you give them bad food, they get sick. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

That kick had to hurt him, and I felt bad that he took it for me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“How do we know? Maybe it has a bad effect on a child to grow up with... someone like him in the house.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

His meat loaf last night wasn’t half bad. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And at the same time, I feel like it would be a bad idea to tell the man that. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Old Charley Burns didn’t survive the avalanche of bad publicity, lawsuits, and criminal charges being hurled at him. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to throw up that anger like bad food and be rid of it forever. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Usually it is not this bad on Thursdays and Fridays, when Uhmma and Apa both work late at their second jobs. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was cold in the cell, the wind screamed night and day, and worst of all, the floor sloped. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

George hoped it wouldn’t hit against the curtain or, worse, fall and land in the bathtub with a thud. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I felt worse when I remembered that I had to clean the Western Union and be at school on time to welcome the incoming freshmen at the school assembly. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“They’re hunting us for some reason. Everyone who’s caught gets dragged to...well, to a bad place, never to be seen again.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Dad feels really bad about that too, especially since you left us your farm. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t talk to her, it’s going to get worse.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It was so bad, the kid’s mother couldn’t calm me down, and she had to call my mother to come pick me up. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“She used to take care of me when my polio got bad,” he told me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This is a worse buzz than the one at the front door. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I am escorted back to my room, feeling much worse than I did before my evaluation. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“It was a bad sandwich. No chicken or avocado or anything.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Upon my return from Universal, the head of the English department told me, “You’re making us look bad.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It would be a cinch to seal it with the suit's patch kit, but now that I think about it, that's a bad idea. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing began to feel like a really bad idea. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The kitchen sink was full nearly to the brim with filthy greenish water which smelt worse than ever of cabbage. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If they want to bad enough, they gon harass a blessing from you if it kill. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I forget about my bottles of egg yolk and water, which go bad and stink up the cellar with a smell like sulfur. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This was a bad mistake I guess but I let him ride down with me a couple weeks ago.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She made a face, like she had just tasted something bad. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The brave Virginia says, Stop thinking about Mamita s bad words to you. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And don’t make it worse by saying “fell between the cracks.” fewandfar between. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a bad time to be reminded of how stinkin’ poor we are. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even worse than hunger has been the monotony of my days. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was still a good deal of bad feeling over the business. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little boy had a far worse case of chicken pox than he or Rita. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m starting to think this is the worst idea in the history of bad ideas. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

"The Lannisters are liars every one, and the dwarf is the worst of them. The killer was armed with his own knife." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I think the storm might be bad,” she says, certain. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He leaned over me and yelled, “You taking a nap, Fisher Man? Is this naptime at Lake Windsor Middle School? Too bad. You missed my goal!” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things were not quite so bad, after all. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of having fluctuating populations that periodically outran their resources and starved, they maintained smaller populations that enjoyed an abundance of food in good years and a sufficiency in bad years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tally looked out at the weeds, feeling worse with every word David said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“No one. I’m here on my own. Really, it’s not that bad.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The black hole’s gravitational pull was bad enough. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The boy was looking off, far away, looking like there was something he wanted, real bad. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Me too. I mean, you really are—" "No no no stop, that only makes it worse. Okay. Okay. Look at me." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“He’s always around. Besides, you treat him too well as it >> IS. “Too bad,” Kwang replied, carefully turning the bulgogi on the grill. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the nurses figured out that if she covered my damaged eye with a cotton patch, my double vision wasn’t as bad. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The doctors said it was chronic hypothermia, with bad diet and a mild case of pneumonia on top of it; but I don’t know if that accounts for all the hallucinations and mental confusion. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The worst foolish thing is when a religion wants you to say it's the only right one. Or the best one. That’s when I pack my bags and start rolling.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Too many years of bad eating and not taking care of himself and so— What does this have to do with anything? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

This was a bad place, rank with despair and death. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Honeywell, a teacher and a grown woman, was escorted to the principal’s office like a bad boy walking the “paddle mile,” while a hallway aide watched her classroom. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Falling into the gorge would count as a pretty bad mistake. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Didn't Shakespeare's Ophelia,” Mum asked, turning to the real one, “come to a mad, bad end?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Many of our neighbours fared much worse than we had. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newscaster was calling Friday night the worst evening of the unrest. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

What was worse, even when Francis stopped thinking about coiled coils or I about bacterial genetics, we still remained stuck at the same place we were twelve months before. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I think he had been having a bad dream just before he woke up, but he did not say any-thing about it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Funny, their happiness makes me feel worse, that I’m doing something wrong. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jay only gets it when something bad happens. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And Amanda Wilkinson, whose face was always pinched up like she was smelling something real bad; and Sweetie Pie Thomas, who was only five years old and still mostly a baby. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I get home, I don’t look so bad. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Had Harry thought that things couldn't have been worse? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The day that a car is driven off the lot is the worst day in its life, for it instantly loses as much as a quarter of its value. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad thing to have a book-hunting partner, even if only for a while. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Molly says, looking at me like I smell bad. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But this feels different and worse than our normal. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

As the days passed, the cough grew worse until Howard arrived one day and found Smith barely able to stand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was acting like me being his grandson was the worst news anyone could ever give you in your life. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The idea is good, but the time is bad. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distinction between good guys and bad guys disappeared for him. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a spider, she thought wildly, an enchanter or worse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My dizziness was getting worse, and not only was Arnold waving, but there were two—no, wait, three of him. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s bad when Grandma won’t talk to us because we can’t run to her when we need to borrow sugar or tea or milk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Jesse tried to huddle away from the worst of them, but there was no escaping the miserable invaders. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Clearly, this was very bad for his heart and very good for his art. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I’m just sorry for him now, and that’s exactly the worst thing I can do to him. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

His state of mind was bad; he was emaciated; and he was smoking sixty cigarettes a day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve decided to leave by another route. Somebody might backtrack me and find you. And that would be too bad.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any teenager could tell you that a place like that just had to be worse on the inside. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. I just have a bad feeling and I have to trust my gut.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I just felt so bad about almost returning her book. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

How would I ever survive twenty lashes when two hurt worse than anything I had ever felt before? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As if they’d given up or decided that a small freedom was the worst punishment of all, presenting the bounty of true freedom into painful relief. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The depression can be pretty bad sometimes too. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And he was really bad at puzzles, so it was a struggle in all ways. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

At first we drove them around town ourselves, but my husband, Franklin, he’s got a bad back, so we decided to plant them, just like corn, and let folks come to us.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mosquitoes love to feast on me, and when I was a kid it was bad. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And the two of them, Henry and Alex, like the world’s worst illustration of the Symposium: split down the middle and sent bleeding into separate lives. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My arms were weak and my shoulders sore, but they weren’t what hurt worst. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Piper didn’t see how a grain spirit could be so bad, but Hazel’s tone convinced her not to ask. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

People emptying their buckets made it worse and there was a sickening stink in the kitchen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“And thus ends the story of Andrew and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Mrs. Bunny?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t my favorite thing to do, but it wasn’t so bad either, not since Judy and I got a record player last Christmas. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or was the idea of breaks so I could let the bad news sink all the way in? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our home was in bad shape, but the basic structure was still there. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She feels bad when she can’t carry off what she considers her responsibility. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve lived in places much worse,” Polly said to the slave girl, who had already sunk to the floor and curled her arms tightly around herself. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He expected to encounter an obstacle at any moment; his worst fear was Peeves, and he strained his ears with every step to hear the first, telltale signs of the poltergeist’s approach. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s how he handles all of his problems, from fights with mom to a bad fiscal quarter for his business. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

God help us, he was a bit slow with the bad eyes you know but we kept at him and now he’s getting faster. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The General—his General’s—temper had grown worse and worse. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, the situation was worse than Jason expected. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Even so, Reynie felt awful, and now to make matters worse, he smelled something awful, too. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the worst thing that anyone can ever do. Even God doesn’t forgive that. You know that, don’t you?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remained silent, resigning myself to the worst. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything in the song is true—everything changes, for better or worse, whether we like it or not. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got bad news. Your uncle Lee was killed last night.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s just as bad on a higher level, and I’ve given up any attempt to discuss these things with the professors at Beekman. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘Mack,’ he says, ‘I figure a guy that needs it bad enough to make up a lie to get it, really needs it,’ and he give me the buck. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am tempted to tell them it was Judy’s boyfriend, Douglas, but realize it will only be worse to drag other people in. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Because I was there, because it felt less bad. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to share it and have her think it’s weird, or too emotional, or that I’ve changed for the worse. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“It was too bad to laugh at the poor little jelly pots. Forgive me, dear. I never will again!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she went on, “don’t let it. There’s more good folks than bad in the world, believe it or not. I bet they find him.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"A political paper! Too bad the war will soon be over. The army could use soldiers like you. With your mind, you'd make a smashing officer. It's too bad you will have missed it." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bad news is that now I’m running through the conversation that he might’ve overheard. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Well, to lose the only meat we had left from last winter’s hog butchering was bad enough. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I realized that if we all had Shakespeare’s atoms inside us, we probably also had atoms from Adolf Hitler, who was probably the worst human who ever lived. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a little bit of bad news: Everybody else is dead.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Me, I’m inclined to stay out in the bush. Cities, they bring nothing but the worst out in people.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“How bad is he hurt?...Is everyone else okay? The boys?...What about the car?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were rumors the city’s worst criminals were kept in another part of the temple, in a cellar perhaps even lower than this. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I made up some excuse about it being a bad weekend for my family. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He also says that it’s bad luck to have “three on a match.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ron was in a very bad mood by the end of the class. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“You’re right, it is easy to get on her bad side. All you have to do is try to get her killed.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The cereal actually didn't taste too bad, but it had smelled just like his cot. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to get out of that car so bad. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

No one knew what was happening, but somehow everyone now knew it was something bad. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The cut had gone bad and was bandaged up but it still was leaking something from the sides. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“What a bad girl you are! You’ve dropped your cake! Now I’ll have to go over and get you a whole new slice!” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It definitely didn’t fit in with the other cars, and I took that as a bad sign. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’d never heard Chavez complain about anything at the Academy, with the exception of the pain that push-ups caused his one bad elbow. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared out at a magnificent banyan tree along a route that Pérez’s driver took, and said softly, “I’ve worked for eighteen years in Haiti, and everything has gotten worse.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I think this is the worst possible place for you.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But that wasn’t too bad, as it turned out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“And using paper plates for every meal is bad for the environment.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

His jaw drops; clearly, my bruising and swelling look worse than yesterday. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Then we’ll visit Anne’s secret attic in Amsterdam to pay homage to the young woman who in the worst possible situation still believed that “in spite of it all, people are really good at heart.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even though growing up as a twin has had its good points and bad points, at least I always have someone to talk to, share clothes with, and experiment with. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t sleep. It’s overrated. A bad habit I do my best to avoid—in company, wherever possible, and the young lady may go off the boil if I don’t get back to her.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He was thinking, if the car had wrecked, it wouldn’t be so bad. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The knot Otto made in the laces when I was trying to escape from Bouain was a convoluted mess, made worse by repeated bathings in river muck. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel bad for her,” Lexie said suddenly from the far end of the table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Any mention of her ‘works’ always had a bad effect upon Jo, who either grew rigid and looked offended, or changed the subject with a brusque remark, as now. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a step back and feel a bad quivering in my bottom lip. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She put an arm around my shoulder as if she welcomed me, as if good friends were supposed to share bad times. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had an empathy link with Grover, so I hoped I would know if anything bad happened to him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And I want to add, I also think you’ve got a secret crush on Fiona, but I’m already feeling bad for what I did say. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then, when Ron continued to look gloomy, she said, “Come on, Ron, it could be worse. At least your fingers aren’t full of pus.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was about a robot who had bad breath, who became popular after his halitosis was cured. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re all rebellious now, they always have something bad to say to other kids, they all want to fight. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Too bad there aren’t five other crickets like Chester,” whispered Harry Cat. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the moment they began their magical training, they were told, and told again and again, that their coven was their destiny, and that being ungrateful for fate’s gifts would curse them with bad luck. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His father was a successful dentist, and so his family had been spared the worst effects of the Depression and lived fairly comfortably, teeth being prone to decay regardless of economic trends. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He did a count at Mass and figured the chapel was about a third full—not bad given that there was no new batch of seventh graders to replace the seniors who’d graduated. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“No, listen. I don’t wanna be here when they come. I mean, Ignatius is big. He might make trouble. I couldn’t stand that. My nerves is bad enough now.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know when Dad does the bad thing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Hey, everybody has to write something. You’re no exception. Do you want everyone to think you have a bad political attitude?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t as bad as I’d thought it would be. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are good rats and bad rats, I told him. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I asked her why she was wasting her candies, she said she was burying them like the box her Mama and PapS had buried in their yard that was bad to touch. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain wasn't bad, but there aren't any chiropractors on Mars, so I wasn't taking chances. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it hurt so bad that Joaquin wished he had never let that ice cube melt. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The worst part was disease: if anybody got sick with anything serious, everybody on the ship was liable to get it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head felt light and heavy all at once, but worst of all was the pounding. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Each time he inhales it, the left side of his head, where he took the worst of the beating on top of the train, aches badly. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The family problems seemed to grow on my back like a tumor, and whatever I did, they just grew worse. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His Grace is not an easy man. Few are, who wear a crown. Many good men have been bad kings, Maester Aemon used to say, and some bad men have been good kings.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, one night after a bombing mission, their aircraft got stuck at their intermediate airfield without food and low on fuel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

If he calls off his reception for the Envoy tonight, things are in a bad way. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everything just gets worse when I reach inside, and a million times worse when I dump everything onto the floor. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The fall would’ve been bad enough, considering I was a hundred feet in the air. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sleeping well and his grades, which were never very good, got even worse. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What other bad news are they going to share? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m writing because I have bad news. My unit got called, and in a few days, I’m going”—Grandma paused—“I’m going into battle.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Felix worried she was going to deliver bad news, but she smiled and tapped her empty mug before heading to the coffee machine in the corner. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The worst idea in the history of horrible, terrible, awful ideas. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I’m really glad that Christmas and my birthday are soon because that means they will be over soon because I can already feel myself going to a bad place I used to go. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were both bruised and bleeding, and their mother was in far worse condition. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We might have watched her, hanging by a strap umpteen feet in the air, but, even worse, she had been forced to watch us. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He held it higher but the heat was worse and finally he moved it to the side a bit and there it seemed to cook properly. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had bad dreams. I can’t sleep. I want to go look for Dismay now, Daddy. I brought my flashlight.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Boy,” he said coldly, “you sure must be in pretty bad shape. You ought to go home.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t been that long, but a lot of bad things could happen in three hours and nineteen minutes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I believe in johnny pumps and jump ropes, Malcolm and Martin, Buckeyes and Birmingham, writing and listening, bad words and good words— I believe in Brooklyn! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But, man, driving her to school was the worst. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Only a few hours. He is not a bad man.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Things could be a lot worse. I did get away from them. I'm still alive. So is Bruno." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell someone that this was it, the last straw, I couldn’t go on anymore with my own misery plus Piper’s, which was so much worse. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward we’d say what a bad time and Catherine would say it wasn’t really so bad. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Now that is bad. Would have been better if you had a tussle in the front yard. Get it outta your system.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And it's worse because I'm starting to see what's happening to my life. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bit at one of her fingernails, which was one of those bad habits that the operation cured. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Boots, you’ve lost your collar! And your boots are gone! Oh, you bad boy, where have you been?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Harroway cleared his throat, made a bad start in falsetto, and began again, angrily, “Look here, Mr. Byerley, our special instructions were to search the house very thoroughly.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe coming here today, meeting Petey where all these people would make up their own stories about them, was a bad idea. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew that Fiver had said that something bad was going to happen and all sorts of rumors started. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My spelling and my grammar were as bad, if not worse. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry’s nerves mounted as June the twenty-fourth drew closer, but they were not as bad as those he had felt before the first and second tasks. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s still a possibility this is all a very bad dream.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Not well. Garvey says his bouts of depression keep getting worse.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Bobby Joe or any of those bad boys ever give you any...junk, Sonny, you come get me. I’ll take care of ’em.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My bad. I apologized to Bri, if that helps. I was only saying what my dad wanted me to say.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

On the way home I felt good and bad. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Father was right. This is the worst school in the district. Maybe the entire state.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

But I’d have been lying if I said I didn’t think my presence in his life had only made things worse for him. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I would kick myself if it wouldn't make this moment worse. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He’s basically bobbing up and down and shuffling his feet—and as stiff as he is, Bram’s even worse. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“And it would be even worse for you.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

How have I not noticed how bad it’s gotten? Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But he thought a sister who gave me a “pad,” not charging me rent, not even running me out to find “some slave,” couldn’t be all bad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a very common gift. Harry, this is bad.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

This is the worst thing I’ve ever done in my entire life. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I know for a fact that those fumes from the nail polish are bad for her. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head again, and I wonder, suddenly, if this is how he comforts himself: by convincing himself that the bad things he’s done don’t matter. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

For himself, he had made a bad situation better. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

As far as reading lessons go, this isn’t so bad. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Well, I guess if you're Muhammad Ali, one of the biggest stars and the best fighter ever, jail ain't so bad. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

My nerves were worn thin after the bad night we’d spent. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for a girl at Permian, the only thing worse than being a Pepette was not being one. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The writing is indecipherable, not because Margo’s handwriting is bad, but because on top of the horizontal lines of text, writing also goes vertically down the page. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m not trying to do anything bad. I just want to learn your mother’s story, same as you.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Others were less kind: she was unstable, unreliable, an example of the worst kind of mother. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Actually the worst thing that happened to me had nothing to do with the revolution. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anything tastes that bad must be good for you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

This was bad news, indeed, and all were weeping when they left Circe’s isle and turned their prow toward Erebus where Hades rules with awesome Persephone. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bad boy and bad girl were probably sneaking hamburgers, wasting their money. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, the good news is that your patron isn’t here. The bad news is ...” I broke off, drawing a deeper breath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I feel like this is the worst time ever to tell her anything. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I think that’s the worst bit. I know Bathilda thought it was all just talk, but ‘For the Greater Good’ became Grindelwald’s slogan, his justification for all the atrocities he committed later. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

That razor strop burns so bad, after you go to bed your legs still feel stripedy like a zebra horse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder,” Theodora said to Eleanor as they left the lunch table under Mrs. Dudley’s watchful eye, “why everything has been so quiet. I think this waiting is nerve-racking, almost worse than having something happen.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The lord of suet was not so bad as masters went. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Piers isn’t bad looking, not when he’s laughing. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

It is the worst kind of pain to me, but I have never experienced anything like this. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I worry that the surgeons won’t get it right and Erin will have to walk with a limp, or even worse. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the mouth of the Luangwa River was as bad as everyone said, it wouldn’t have survived anyhow. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything looks so clean! It’s like all the bad stuff is covered up with shiny stuff,” she said, barely smiling. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It gets to pinching pretty bad,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’re all about changing for the better and I am changing for the worse. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had one of the worst tantrums of his life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean it’s supposed to look like a six-hundred-series instant camera, from Polaroid’s most popular line. From a distance, yeah, it would pass, but up close it’s obviously a bad facsimile.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I touched a fat, slick loop of vine, prepared to leap back in horror, but it was only vine, no worse. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

As bad as those raids are, the night raids are worse. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But his parents absolutely adore him and realize that Reggie’s not a bad kid.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was bad form to cut loose in the middle, and then also perhaps hazardous; Jack had once told me no one had ever done that before to Dennis Hoagland. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a bad thing to bite into hard fruit with little teeth. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I whispered, “This is a bad idea,” but I followed behind her, crouched down as she was, until we were standing in front of the still-open basement window. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Feral, how could hate ever not be bad?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He tried to imagine the purpose of such a thing, and he didn’t know which guess was worse—that they were being sealed in or that they were being protected from something out there. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Yet when I received Norman Bowker’s letter, it occurred to me that the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is usually a great thing for observing the outdoors, but with bad weather, windows turn into problems. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was no one who more enjoyed doing nothing on a bad day than Mr. Bracket of Third Avenue. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was way worse than the first day of school. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was full of dirty dishes and the milk had been left out of the refrigerator and turned bad. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When a boy was bad, he wasn’t sent to the principal’s office for a licking; he was sent down to Mr. Jenson’s room for a talking to. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why teenagers get a bad rap, because old people are way worse drivers.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It is a scene which combines the worst of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Fritz Lang’s Metropolisit is mechanized Negro slavery; it represents the progress which the Negro has made from picking cotton to tailoring it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or worse, not being allowed to leave footprints at all. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think this: It is not just the lieutenant who believes all this bad about me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

And if for an instant he were afraid, he would the next instant cry sullenly, “And what can happen to me worse than that which has happened!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It’s bad enough to fail, but far worse to see another succeed at the very accomplishment you’d hoped to achieve. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many eyes in the room were fastened upon Bigger now, cold grey and blue eyes, eyes whose tense hate was worse than a shout or a curse. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This really spooked us. We were sure some thing bad had happened. Twenty-five of us have been searching since then.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s really too bad you are not a boy,” she adds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny part of my brain that knew this was a bad idea. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sheryl always has to think of every worst thing that could happen. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

If only I could have said that on the day, I think, because my father never had a bad word for anybody or a true act of unkindness. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Crab cackled like a bad guy in a cartoon. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She took me directly to Nurse Holyfield, who said she’d seen worse and not to worry, other kids had done the same. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded him of Granny on one of her bad days. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

To be the family outcast, this is the worst thing he can imagine. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Keenan speaks softly, the way Pop used to when he gave patients the worst news. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And even though there was some comforting in that, I knowed I had to stop him afore I made a real bad choice. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

No matter how bad he does, he buries his face in his papers, cranks up Rabbi Gold on his phone, and gives it another try. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The worst part is that there’s no end in sight. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I knew she used a bad word, but it was one that I didn’t exactly know the meaning of. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They knew how to fire up a church the old-fashioned way, without talk of politics and bad mouthing and negativity but with real talk of God and genuine concern for its parishioners. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided I could have picked a worse store to wander into. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well now, if the falling of this bird is a sign of a curse or bad luck, we are in both. So I am eating every bit of it. You can do as you please.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it wouldn’t have been so bad. We could have slept in hammocks. Learned Spanish. Lived in a little house with chickens in the yard.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was sullen with helpless fury at all the bad luck that had befallen them lately. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

About a year ago Needles had one of these fits—a bad one. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I had already seen so many kids with bad brains and the worst part is that some of them looked just like me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t imagine how much worse Redemption felt. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It makes me homesick for Rose Hill, the ache so bad that I nearly cry. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And worst of all, Judy didn’t even ask me about the five words. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Monsters coming through the Doors of Death to threaten his friends at Epirus—that was bad enough. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If she isn’t here, she didn’t see or hear me come in last night, which means that she doesn’t know how bad I was. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red stood by her, his bad leg angled out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Haven't you learned? Government leaders are the worst ones for breaking laws. How do you think we got this house? How do you think I got Internet access? How do you think we live?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I played a bad game because I was thinking how I would be able to tell Bailey how I had lied and, even worse for our relationship, kept a secret from him. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then his gaze shifts, and his smile melts off like the bad juju has leapt onto his face. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

And miniskirts too, as bad as ever, but I draw the line at those. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah. Well, it’s just a bad habit we’ve slipped into,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But that’s the kind of luck we have—dumb dead relatives who go outta their way to interrupt your good-night’s sleep to give you a lucky number that only brings you bad luck. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The whole car had smelled so bad, her mom had been forced to leave the windows open all weekend. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s an idea of mine. The worse it tastes, the faster you grow up.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even worse, this trend may be due partly to the fact that burdens an attentive reader with ten words, seven levels, and more than two dozen branches. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Mami, please don’t make me feel bad because I love to read.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t so bad—it just tasted like stale beer and milk. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in bad shape, but if she could stop the bleeding ... Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Come on, you look to be in a pretty bad way there—I’ll give you a free one.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Altogether it was a bad time to work, which was why the bar of the Samirsky Hotel was full. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now he is over the worst of it, and he often looks on while we play skat. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever had performed the worst would be sent packing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I sensed their restlessness, and I began to understand why the blood of spring is called the bad blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But also I was feeling very, very low about myself and about the soccer team, and I realized that Joey was the only person I knew who was feeling worse. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some who came were kindly, most had a ready, sterile sympathy, and all went away with the unmaskable relief that men experience when they see others who have fared worse than themselves. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not to put a bad rap on our town, but, more often than not, not everyone on the sports team was living their religion.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

None of them suffered a worse doom than his daughter Niobe. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I made things worse, too. By giving the money,” says Peeta. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our Dauntless guards lead us to the center of the room, where we are greeted with, at best, murmurs, and at worst, jeers. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Not that it wasn’t before. It’s just that Charles was so much worse than anyone had expected. I...” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This might be worse than when I had to go onstage and accept my moonstone badge. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“The flies, sah. It means somebody has done bad medicine for this house.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Thieves Quarter was worse than he remembered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even worse, the smallest little part of me wants to tell her the truth, just so I won’t have to be her boyfriend anymore. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Did I catch you at a bad moment?” he says, looking up at us. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“But it was bugging me so bad that I knew the right answer but accidentally got it wrong.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Together the two books ran to nearly a thousand pages and were, remarkably, worse than even his most pessimistic friends had feared. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t feel bad. I just learned last week that there is no N in cemetery,” said Thorn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He told himself that it was a bad idea for him to read Lydia’s blog at that moment. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Kuda, you may not tease the automatic Doberman. Its chain is almost worn through—bad boy! Tendai, I expect you to be responsible for the others.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If it’s that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

With a growing feeling of disgust at the prospect, I waited for the phone to ring, for Holmes or some other sergeant to give me the bad news. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hate to say it but they do smell, tho in the overall smell of the swamp it ain’t as bad as you’d think, so who knows how long she’s been here. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The kids with the blue blazers and bad attitudes. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

As her fevers grew worse, however, she realized she would not last another full growing season. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To another he talked about newspapermen in general: “Those guys always write bad stories about me. They say I’m stupid and that I have no talent in anything except for chess. It’s not true.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She looked even worse than usual, which is saying a lot. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Keeping Sophia forever doesn’t sound like such a bad deal, but right now I’m just aiming for enough to get another couple of dates. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot of inventions ... dangerous ones. If my mother wants me to use this plan, she must think things are very bad.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I switch back and forth between Mom and Dad, trying to figure out if this is good or bad news. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He would put on a bad French accent and mimic Boubacar. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As I entered the chaos of Płaszów, I saw before me a world far worse than I ever could have imagined, far worse than I ever thought possible. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The beer was not good and I had a worse cognac to take the taste out of my mouth. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

This was the point on which she had her worst arguments with Esteban, who was of a different opinion on the subject. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself crying after a while, and I thought that might be bad for my eye, and I forced myself to stop. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Did she see worse things than I did? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Bianca is messed around bad because Ice is her old man and she wants to stick with him.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had been met, then as now, with a strained silence, but then they were silly, bad jokes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Saying it out loud makes it worse, makes it real. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

If worse comes to worst, I can always kill him in his sleep. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of “uhh” you say when you’re watching a scary movie and the bad guy like jumps out of the bushes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The mysterious nature of his death was unlucky enough, but it would be even worse for him to be buried in the clothes he was wearing when he died. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Any bad odor was noticeable here, where the sidewalks were swept hourly and lotus blossoms floated in the clear water below. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Captain John Palliser, traveling through the same lands as Fidler six decades later, lamented the Indians’ “disastrous habit of setting the prairie on fire for the most trivial and worse than useless reasons.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But now that I actually had to criticize the teachers who taught us every day, I could not find anything really bad to say about any of them. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in far worse shape than before. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Nothing too bad. Not in a long time.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This banishment was the ultimate hurt—worse than his father’s fists and belt, worse than his mother’s never caring. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t cheat Eliza, I can barely sneak a piece of cheese from the larder without feeling bad.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to join the celebration when Annabeth’s voice, right next to me in the creek, said, “Not bad, hero.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We are only able to deal with them when they have made their appearance, and we must use the methods of medical care for this, as best we can, for better or worse. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are worse ways to die than drowning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Only white for his eyes and the smell became worse, filled the cockpit, and all of it so fast, so incredibly fast that Brian’s mind could not take it in at first. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dobbs was in even worse shape than Hungry Joe, who could at least fly missions when he was not having nightmares. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He walked and worked among his villagers, thought of their welfare, and could tell the good workman from the bad. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he blurts out, startling me, “The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything...” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She wondered if Grace would feel bad forever, if that look on her face when she had first told them about the baby would ever truly go away. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Sadly, no. The only way fears truly disappear is if you confront them. But who in the world wishes to confront his or her worst fears?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

For years, Wesley thought he was “bad with faces.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She liked the hospital and the routines, but in August 1969, she was sent back home to recover after a bad bout of pancreatitis left her weak and exhausted. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Usually I fall on the side of knowing the truth, even if the truth is bad. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not so bad. There’s always a bunch of my friends there. I’ve written that sentence six hundred times now.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Listening, you reflect that you are probably the worst person on the planet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In your mind you already protectin’ it from the bad memories you carry. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he might wind up someplace even worse than Big Tony’s! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

"And it will only grow worse. The day may come when I will have no choice but to call the banners and ride north to deal with this King-beyond-the-Wall for good and all." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s how you feel about who you are that counts. Hummph,” she said, twirling around on her toes like a ballerina with bad feet. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a compound of rotten fish, excrement, and vomit, with a sweet chemical odor that was worse than the other smells put together. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As the sword was cutting me down,” said the ghost, “I thought this was the worst I would ever have to endure. But I was wrong. The worst is on the other side.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when the teacher specifically said: "Willow, how does this book make you feel7' I had to tell the truth: "It makes me feel really bad. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And the worst part is that she can sort of pass her laugh around the room to everybody, just because the sound of it is so outrageous. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

This week that was supposed to be a fun break for my brain had just turned into my worst nightmare. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that she was a bad mother, she “was just tired of playing the role of mother,” as she so bluntly told me one morning. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was even a sort of love offering to start off by telling the worst. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I remember a remark Farmer made to me a year ago in these hills: “You should compare suffering. Which suffering is worse. It’s called triage.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” Frank said, “I have some bad news about that. See, I got more from my dad than strength.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Whatever that means, it’s bad enough that my dad felt like warning me personally.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“My science teacher says it’s quacks like Sagarsky that give real scientists a bad name.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m too weak for surprises” were the last sounds he got out before he fainted from fatigue and brandy and no food and bad sleep and lots of other things, none of them nutritious. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I did not like her the worse for that; on the contrary, I felt better pleased than ever. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Everybody had told such personal stories about their families, so maybe my family story wouldn't be so bad after all. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“We might be drenched and lost and heading for the worst rapids you ever saw, but at least we’re going in the right direction, don’t you think, Tiller?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Being a scythe’s apprentice means I have to make amends for my...well, for my past bad choices. And so...I want to give you the chance to do the same thing to me.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There are forces that mean her harm, and worse than harm. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So what you’re saying is that I look horrible, but the alternative would be much worse?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was a Spokane Indian and a bad liar, which didn’t make any sense. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, the worst part of the fight was that Lieutenant Carroll got a broken tooth. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my bad,” he said, looking back at the tree. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There are bad sides—I have a concussion and probably need to see a doctor. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was my worst fear coming true, but at least it settled one issue. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

And to make matters worse, bears have an instinct that drives them to attack when a creature runs away, especially if the creature running away is a mysterious, sparkling monster. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m bad in school. I spend most of my time in ballet. But I’m not tall enough for that. Have you ever been not tall enough for anything?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The other part runs screaming worse than a four-year-old begging her mama to chase the boogeyman out of the closet and off to a place where bad dreams don’t exist. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I rapped out, thinking, You can't coddle these sick people, it's the worst thing for them, it'll spoil them to bits. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I said, No, and he said I was a bad boy and God would be displeased. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, by contrast, were the baddest of the bad—almost exclusively, inmates who had assaulted guards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in a strange way, I feel bad for her too. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing worse to contend with than Pipkin’s disappointment at being left behind; and this was dispelled when Hazel assured him that the only reason was that he had already done his bit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d seen pictures of worse things that had happened in bombings in Palestine. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They were not allowed to sit on the long benches with the other children, because the Trepids didn’t want the other children to learn any bad habits from Florida and Dallas. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And I feel bad about that, I really do!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Shawn said no teenage girl was trustworthy, and that in his experience those who seemed pious were sometimes the worst of all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was in bad shape, with bruises and cuts all over his face and neck. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’m sick of him coming over every day just because he feels bad. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Hang in there! Chins up! Look on the bright side—it could always be worse!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

"But once you grow up, you can make sure not to do any bad things that might get you sent back here." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At home we dared not open the back window adjoining an alleyway, for fear of being overcome by the stench, or worse, being invaded by the giant flies and rats. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat a little, barf a little, lie in bed watching videos for a few days while the ’rents wait on you hand and foot — not a bad deal, overall. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. For doing bad things, I guess. For being in jail.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t ask. I didn’t ask! I’m as bad a father as my father was.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s bad, he’s bad, he’s bad . . . ,” Ben was whispering now, almost chanting. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was like he lived by some weird rule, that only he could treat Needles bad, no one else. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

We’d all done something bad to be put in a group home in the first place, right? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t cried, not the whole time he’d been down here, and there had been plenty of bad stuff. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had this bad longing to be back there that sat in my stomach like a twenty-pound weight. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His illnesses were becoming so bad and so frequent that he sometimes could not work more than twenty minutes at a time without having a pain or discomfort somewhere. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, I was starting to become self-conscious about my muscles, so I always wore an athletic jacket on top of whatever outfit I’d put together. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A bad curve can also cause a train to slow. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Letting him escape is even worse than killing him,” the tsar hissed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The bad guys who abide by no societal laws whatsoever but are good at pretending when it suits them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It was pretty bad while she was yelling, but at least I didn’t have to finish it.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I kind of feel sorry for Justin, but not bad enough to switch. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so bad, but after my father acted like...my father, I had pretty much lost my appetite. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’ll be on the trouble list for leaving early, but Jesus Christ, what’s worse, the wrath of Mother or the wrath of Hilly? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Did our family talk about the future or make contingency plans in case the situation got worse? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Let’s just say Justin can make you look really good or really bad in a picture. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was weak and exhausted, yet as bad as he felt, he knew that Zero felt ten times worse. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t torture, Shadow thought, just punctuation: I'm the bad cop. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At worst, I’d be on my feet, able to grab a weapon and fight her. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I sat back, waiting for him to tell me how bad he thought the Russians were too, but he surprised me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Too bad, because it’s so much fun,” I said. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’d really like to help, so I made a list of names and addresses for you. Joey got me out of that bad crowd. Even washing urinals is better than hanging around with those people.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When what affects two verbs in the same sentence, the verbs should be alike—both singular or both plural, not one of each: What gives away Phyllis's age is her bad knees. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The segregationists’ campaign against us seemed to get even worse during that week. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But honestly, I think I would be a very bad reporter because I can’t imagine sitting across the table from a politician or a movie star and asking them questions. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If you do anything bad,” Úrsula would tell him, “the saints will let me know.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Where black women cleaned manure from tobacco leaves, the stench was so bad that the women stuck orange slices in their mouths to keep from vomiting. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The worst thing was, she couldn't even say he was wrong. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I feel sorry for them knowing they are worse off than I am. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted, in the worst way, to consult with Bimbi about it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This place is worse than the River Cocytus,” he muttered. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What if he should knock me in the head—or worse; he sounded diabolic. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those ugly memories wove through his thoughts during the first months like bad threads through a carpet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I consider using the lake samples, but I can’t be sure what caused this and if that would make matters worse. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Why did I get such a bad feeling from this guy? Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think in the beginning she called it that so I would not feel bad about having to take something to make me feel better. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stove wasn’t even the worst of our cake troubles. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Campbell said that a hero is an ordinary human being who does "the best of things in the worst of times." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The parents of the Fugees’ players were seen as powerless, she believed, so no one thought much about making the team play on such a bad field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She asked tentatively, “Was it bad where you were in North Dakota?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Is there a reason you’re taking me out? Do you have bad news or something?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

What hurt most—worse than the broke ribs, broke nose, banged head, and twisted knee all put together—was his pride. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Harry did not know what was worse, the things that Neville was saying or the matter-of-fact tone in which he said them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It wouldn't be much worse than what he felt now. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It made me wonder if things were worse than I thought. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Before I could ask her what she meant, I heard the worst sound ever. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“What should I do about Beck? He’s still alive, but I don’t think he can survive much longer. He’s in really bad shape!” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Josh ran the race badly; afterward, he looked bad and he smelled bad. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if the good doesn’t outweigh the bad?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he already knew that something bad had happened to Lice Peeking. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He got worse and worse, and during this time I missed my period. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

You began to cry, and I wanted to turn around and tell you it was all just a bad dream, but I was fully occupied with keeping Basta’s knife away from me with Capricorn’s sword. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But the worst part was that you could tell they all wanted to go to the movies. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard that things work differently in the Great Wood. That people get lost, even if they have a map. That magic goes awry there; rituals go bad. That sort of thing.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There is not a worse feeling in this world than the feeling that someone knows something about you that he has known for almost a whole summer and has kept to himself. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here they were, on Mercury exactly twelve hours—and already up to the eyebrows in the worst sort of trouble. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The bread was soggy, so we dripped honey onto the slices and rolled them and they didn’t taste too bad. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Says owners who don’t “give dogs a bad name.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Why’d you pick this place? It almost smells as bad as my brothers’ room after soccer practice.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Sure, I guess. But, for better or worse, this is our home.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I argued and fussed, trying to tell her what a bad shape Old Yeller was in and how we needed to hurry back to him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was pretty bad that someone was named after a type of potato. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things had gotten so bad, even people like me who didn’t want anything to do with politics were thinking about it all the time. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The data shows, I track worse with undecided voters when they’re reminded of the divorce!” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’d been drinking; he never came home from work sober, and the drinking always made his temper worse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The girl’s face squishes up, like she’s in the worst pain ever and she opens her mouth like she’s going to yell but nothing comes out. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He did not think he could stand to discuss Sirius; it had been painful enough to hear Uncle Vernon say “His godfather’s dead?” and even worse to hear Sirius’s name thrown out casually by Slughorn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The girl hugs herself again on the rock and we’re back to even worse than where we started. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Most of us aren’t bad people inside, but obviously there’s at least one. I wish it was different, but there’s nothing we can do.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Too bad he couldn’t bring it down with a clean shot from a rifle. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And when you were there, something bad was happening at home.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It is easy to say she was bad, but there is little meaning unless we know why. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aye, name him Reek, he thought, and when he s bad you can cut his toes off and give him rats to eat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then I done the worst thing of all: I walked away from her and she was crying and calling out for me and I did not even look back. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But somehow he felt kind of bad anyway. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Looking at that yew tree every day, it felt like I had a friend out there who’d help me if things got to their worst.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“What’s worse than to be rejected by all your classmates and teachers.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have gotten worse if I hadn’t made a slight gesture over the brazier with the wax doll. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I really believe he may not have suffered very much, because the bad air had turned him silly: but I wish I hadn’t seen it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at her fancy kitchen like it’s something that tastes bad. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Some of them recognized the robot bad guys from Doctor Who, but even those girls had never watched the show. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He can walk out of this office and call Henry and tell him: “We’re safe. The worst is over.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough that his daughter was rebelling, but here was his own wife joining forces with her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I have been running this generator for one straight week, can you imagine? The light situation has not been this bad in a long time.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Aru knew it was a little mean, but she didn’t feel that bad for Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When there’s someone hanging on it at least you know the worst. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least the smell’s not as bad with the lid closed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

‘Of all the confounded nuisances you are the worst, Sam!’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

You need to be clean, not just of real dirt, but of all the bad things you might have done with your hands, your ears, your eyes, your mouth. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Just know many bad things came from that. Plenty people got hurt. I don’t want you forced into the kinds of decisions I had to face.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He looked good in the sense that he was standing up and walking on his own, but he looked bad in the sense that he just seemed wiped out. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, to some extent, they are worse off. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Despite being under considerable stress because of the bad blood between my father and me, I went ahead and sat for the Standard Six final exams. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it is not so bad: Mr. Whiskers and I have beat a path to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had stopped checking for updates on how Mr. Griswold was doing because she was afraid the news would be bad. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If I’m not worthy of water in this state, then I can hardly even imagine what it’s like to be worse off. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’ll be okay was just something people said when they didn’t know what else to say and things were really, really bad. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Everything between the three of us seemed really delicate and I felt tense, but it wasn’t altogether a bad tension. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s for worse, all right. Most definitely for worse.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

This happens every Sunday now, it’s part of going to church; it would be very bad if I said no, to either thing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Being an observer hadn’t been so bad in Stuyvesant. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was squally out, the sky gray, the way it always got before a bad storm. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks pretty bad,” David said, glancing over Tally’s shoulder as she stared at them in amazement. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I said that today was a minor setback, and that we would face worse difficulties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not as bad as the first time but still it was bad. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

By the third day after the fire, the Lockton house was packed tighter than a barrel of salt cod and smelled worse. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But worse, the jumble of ice that stretched for hundreds of miles in every direction gave the wind a grip on the ice pack. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

And with more loved ones getting sick and word spreading of an even worse strain of influenza heading west from Chicago, Indianapolis, and Des Moines, those wives and mothers were determined to protect their families. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I braced for the worst as my mom paced around Abuela’s living room. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Immediately I felt bad for what I said. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m afraid that Erin might die, because she looks that bad. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But—and this is the worst part—I seem to be chasing him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The mama-sans just stood there in the rain, soaking wet, yapping away about how this field was bad news. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the ambient radiation was already too bad by then for freestyle. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My ship was in bad shape, so instead of returning directly to my stronghold, I headed to Joe’s Garage, an orbital starship repair shop over in Sector Ten. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Okay, then if he hasn’t actually come out and threatened you, maybe it’s not as bad as you think. Does this kid bring some sort of weapon to school?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“He has the disease with the talking. The, uh, with the bad words. In France, we say it the Toorettes. I do not know how you say in English.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Baba told me to stay up a little later when I said good night, insisting that I shouldn’t go to sleep too early or my jet lag would be worse. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“You have a powerful spirit protecting you. It’s always there watching. It takes care of you so that nothing bad can happen. You need not be afraid.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the handle, fearing the worst, that someone had taken her and left the seat, but when he turned it toward him, there was the tiny pink face of Nademah, scrunched and sleeping. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t talk about sports or bad movies or loading the dishwasher properly or weird jazz. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“It was a teenager’s worst nightmare,” someone else shouts. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words that explained the world to her, its dark side and its light side, words that built a wall to keep out bad dreams. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Uncle D winked at me as if to say, ‘Girl, you were surely missed,’ and my heart clanged worse than when I got my first kiss from Ellis Carter. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

My stomach is aching in that crampy way that means I’m about to get my period, and my palms itch so bad, it’s like fire ants are biting me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

‘That crate is not for kongos. In two days man come fetch that crate. If it not be here, some kongos be in bad trouble!” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the worst of it was, he had just done serious magic, which meant that he was almost certainly expelled from Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In many ways, running a zoo is a hotelkeeper’s worst nightmare. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose that sounds bad, but they were all things we thought we might need someday. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The quiet acceptance in your tone jolted me, and I wondered if my lie about Kutti not loving us enough to stay had hurt you worse than if I’d pretended he’d died. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“And I think they sent me, too. Just because she was the trigger for the Ending doesn’t make her bad.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His jaw was tight, his eyes stony, as if he didn’t feel bad at all. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

A fresh wrong did these words inflict: the worse, because they touched on the truth. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The camp’s commandant was a brutal man, but his wife was worse. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He got us all to laughing over Violet’s new bad habit. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

That I proposed to climb to the cruising altitude of an Airbus 300 jetliner struck me, at that moment, as preposterous, or worse. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

"We have a scientific plan and you set them off. Things are so bad they'll listen, and when they listen they'll go along." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine a worse thing to tell a kid. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And the worst part is that the only person I want to talk to about it is Abby. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And m • although he hated to think about it, the bad air and the lack of food was probably killing off some of the people he’d been checking up on all summer. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe going to Little Comic Con later tonight wouldn’t be the worst thing ever. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“That I’m aware. The sheriff thinks maybe he was out there, he wasn’t dressed warm enough, the weather got bad and maybe he was just in too big of a hurry to get home....” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sadly, the newspapers and TV like to report all the bad things. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When it was over, when we had told them every bad thing there was to tell, we paused and waited. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was a jape. A bad one. Go and find a warm fire. I mean to do the same.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some folks even wait down at the box, and then you feel real bad if you don’t have anything for them. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did a good deed balance a bad one? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Rocky tried to tell them that keeping the carcass on the floor in a warm room was bad for the meat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Allens’ street is much worse than mine. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your police department—others as well—may have retired, very probably have retired, authentic humans with underdeveloped empathic ability, such as my innocent niece here. Your position, Mr. Deckard, is extremely bad morally. Ours isn’t.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The first time’s the worst. It’ll never hurt this bad again. Just think on that.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any attempt to set off across country at once would only make matters worse: half the inhabitants would follow them, to see what they were up to, and to prevent them from trespassing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

That people began to shun her was the worse part. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach went around saying that we had made a strong comeback and telling everybody not to feel bad. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the news was so bad that my father wouldn’t even tell us. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not too bad,” Mom said to me. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

On Ithaca, the island where his home was, things had gone from bad to worse. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They brought out the worst in her, made her feel so inadequate, but still she felt uneasy now, as she always did when the twins went off to a new home. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

This is now compounded by panic, which is bad for the digestion. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to. I do. But it’s a bad idea.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I mean, I knew it was bad, but are my new bangs really that terrible? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The thing to me worse than death was the betrayal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kissed the stove too, and the radiators, and the crack in the back bedroom, which had gotten much worse. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If something bad happened on the cay, I wanted it to happen to all of us. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept telling her what an awesome job she was doing, and she was, but if anything, the storm kept getting worse. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I’d thought nothing could be worse than listening to him drone about the proper inflections of my vowels; now I’m starting to wonder if I was mistaken. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“President Herbert Hoover is taking care of things. The worst is over.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To make things worse, that afternoon Miss Ehlis gave our class an assignment I was not expecting. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Realizing that my plastic weapon was hardly a match for a long fork wielded by a maddened Methuselah, realizing that I was seeing Clyde at his worst, I tried to end our little duel. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the very worst moments of their lives. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I think that smacks of the worst kind of sophistry, frankly,” he said, exhaling smoke. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“And that’s like a promise. At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. Till dawn do us part.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m imagining the worst, like he got into a fight with his interviewer, and now he's banned from applying to any college at all, and his future is ruined. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"The apples are bad, and only a bad—" "The apples are good," broke in Beowulf, his voice calm but firm. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that I was bound to make things worse for myself if I pressed the issue. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

That is the thing with curses—they seem like a bad thing at first, but then sometimes you realize you can’t live without them. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

This is her worst nightmare—gossip about us. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He had a habit of attributing all of Bunny’s faults indirectly to her—his laziness, his bad humors, his lapses of taste. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Grace felt both cleaner and heavier, like someone who had done half their chores but saved the worst ones for last. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I feel kind of bad for being mean, but not too bad. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what tickled worse: inhaling dust mites, or Viper’s sharp whiskers poking into my bare leg. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A bad link is full of holes; very little of the effort you put into it goes toward what you want it to do. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if that was good or bad, but I knew I wasn't going to be arrested. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fear of things getting even worse and my not being able to get back home. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He walked away, leaving Harry feeling worse by far than he had at any point in Snape’s office. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A worse smell than all of that is opium. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was just as bad for the Chamorros as it had been for us Indians. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His men ride the forest; one of them tried to kill me. I saw the Horned King himself! It was horrible, worse than Dallben told me!” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Then, just as I begin projecting forward to a hope of better days, things suddenly get a whole lot worse. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There had already been bad blood between blacks and whites that summer, the boys knew firsthand. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“This is the worst disaster ever to hit America.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the worst difficulty is maintaining silence when thirteen people are arguing all the time. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It got trapped in a burning city and escaped, speaking bad French. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Writing about my pain will only make it worse. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

To this day, I still feel bad about it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only letters they opened without fear were the ones with red borders, the holiday letters that mustn’t carry bad news. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only thing she could think might help prevent the worst possible outcome. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s not so bad!” said Mini with false cheer. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But in many ways he was a bad pony. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Because he's a bad person. Just . . . trust me. He's the kind of bad that tries to kill anything good. If he knew about you, he'd do whatever he could to take you away from me." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

What had been worse than all the other people’s houses – perhaps, in some ways, even worse than here – had been the private hotel. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

If it was a cover-up, it was a very bad one. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The ocean that had chased them back and made them flee for the shelter of the ice pack is the worst ocean on the globe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When everyone finally gathered in the mess hall, it wasn’t quite as bad as Frank had feared. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m drawing too much attention to myself, and Blackcliff is the worst place to do so. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And cheerleaders aren’t too bad off either, but down here, the females who reign supreme are beauty queens. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Thomas took a closer look at the collapsed boy and realized just how bad things were. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The worse it smells, the better things are going. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So that she can make her feel bad and weird?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Okay, this guy is magic. He’ll protect you from bad spells and other kinds of weirdness you might not even be aware of.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Because I didn’t want you to feel bad. Like you probably do right now.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But the blue of the air went forever, and when the houses gave out and the road passed into the open field and there was just the sound of cicadas, Marysville didn't seem so bad. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I feel so bad about leaving him alone. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I guess one side represents good fortunes while the other side represents bad omens. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if this is good news or bad. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I have no idea what to say, so I go ahead and say the worst possible thing. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

But I should’ve let him win that night, so his feet wouldn’t have smelled so bad. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And, worst of all, I had lost respect for Papa. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the sound of Tressa’s fake crying in the background of my real crying is even worse. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I feel bad for wishing Constantine was here instead. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Like things weren’t bad enough? What kind of human are you?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

And to hear David talk about it, it's like it all happened because a long, long time ago people tried to mess with human nature and ended up making it worse. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Or have we just had a stroke of bad luck? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

"Mike must have been in bad shape," she said on the stairs. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It’s bad enough that Dad loses jobs in the third week but now he drinks all the dole money once a month. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s a bad one, Quincy, and he’s been in trouble here before. Stay away from him.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But something puzzles me: These are supposed to be Four’s worst fears. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s not so bad now,” he said, meaning since he had become the day manager at the gas station. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Who had bad breath, who had nice clothes, who could dance, who was hincty. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just saying we owe her mom a blood quota, and everyone knows it. It’s bad karma if people think we don’t pay back.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But not that bad, because he was the one who’d said it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I would have come before,” she puffed, “but for the ague. The shivering was bad this year and the fever! I tell you, I hardly know how I survived.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody here bullies me. Teachers. Students. Whispers, sometimes outright shouts follow me. Seems like everybody has something bad to say: ‘You dress thug.’ Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He declared that Garfield's care “was bad at the start” and that the doctor had not properly cleaned out the wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, there is essentially no black-white test score gap within a bad school in the early years once you control for students’ backgrounds. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Would the older generation of great-aunts and great-uncles think she was a bad mom? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

What was left was not so bad at all, she decided. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was said that even the Father Abbot himself would flatly refuse to treat a snake, no matter how bad its condition might be. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad! A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We had a good idea, but we got a bad result, a situation not totally unknown to the BCMA. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just a horrible dancer. Terrible. In fact, I’m so bad I even have a rule against it. No dancing unless I’m alone in my room or it’s pitch-black dark.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I was laid up with a bad hog cut, hurting so bad I could hardly get my breath, and her expecting me to make a big to-do over a little old puny speckled pup. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as she let herself relax, however, her worst fears became reality. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He does even worse things than crucify people,” Oscar tells us one time. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We meant it, which is the bad part. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeta sits beside me, leaning against the wall, his bad leg stretched out before him, his eyes trained on the world outside. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I knew I had done wrong and I waited for the worst. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We often forget that the software industry started out like a bad fire department. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The priest whispers to me again, Bad women, bad women, occasion of sin, and I don’t know what to say to him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Mom’s kind of being worse than usual.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was nothing Bull Meecham hated worse than a fat Marine. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess once you’d had a taste of the worst, pretty bad isn’t all that terrible. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine how bad it will be if the police officer is found not guilty. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Somebody behind me said, “Very, very bad, Jay.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He is just bad at being a person. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Now the hyena had a bad wound, but it kept running, and as it ran, some of its insides fell out. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be quite honest, I must say that since then things have been getting worse and worse. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence was much worse than the yelling, so I fiddled with the remote. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Am I the worst of all the boys, Father? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bad old ways were still alive and well in Rachel’s brain, and anything that flaunted that order was a terrible thing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I’d try to imagine the worst thing that could happen, like getting the flu or barfing for a couple of days.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I chewed a granola bar as I walked to school and thought it might not be a bad idea if I dropped back from a 10 to a 5 in the lie department. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s exhausting, and it makes you feel bad if you’re not joining in. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’d be bad for you in the arena, wouldn’t it? Knowing all the others?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy said it depended on what good or bad thing had just happened in the news. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Assembly Hall was used for large lectures, debates, plays, and concerts; it had the worst acoustics in the school. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They live in their own kind of bubble, and I’m not sure they realize how hard many American children—for better or worse—push themselves. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

You never know; things could always get worse. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He wondered if that would be such a bad thing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He’s never cared about how bad I’m doing—or how good, for that matter. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For good or bad, we don’t leave one another. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nighttime driving isn’t so bad, but in the day? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In every corner of the city people looked into the faces of shopkeepers, cab drivers, waiters and bellboys to see whether the news already had come and whether it was good or bad. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

All we have are bad choices left to us now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I guess it’s not just one thing. He felt real bad after that last game, bearin’ up on Tangerine High like that. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had only one toy to his name—and what was worse, the dumb porkroll didn’t even know how bad off he was. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

A peasant living on the assumption that bad years would not come didn’t live long. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things got worse when the conversation turned to Cyprus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It gets worse and worse, until finally it becomes almost unbearable. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But what if we can’t relax and our tics get really bad?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was no hurry to get to Logan, he thought, no need to tailgate, and the weather was bad. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh, he treats me bad sometimes,” Mrs. Reilly said loudly and began to cry. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talking about it was bad enough—why does he have to make me feel bad too! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Pa’d told us it was a way full up with black bears and bats and, worst of all, millions of rattling-snakes! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

One, he was a comic book geek, and even though nobody else knew that, I did, and real bad dudes don't read comics, or draw them. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Oh, and about my head: It hurts worse today, but I’ll be okay. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Adams’s string of bad luck or poor timing, call it what you will, persisted to the end. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Some are better. Some are worse. If I find you a lively one, what will be my reward?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Can you doubt, if there is but one in it, which is the one, and, if there is two in it, which is much the worst one?’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We can’t pretend to be bad, because Grace doesn’t like disorder. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

How can a queen be both a good witch and a bad witch? A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It is bad luck to touch the dead.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It's too bad you are leaving to-morrow,” said the reception clerk, telephone in hand, “the Ballet starts next week, you know. Does Mrs. Van Hopper know?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and let the darkness grow and spread until it morphs from a feeling of sadness into something worse: a memorv, a flashback. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don't say anything right away because sarcasm does a bad thing to Dad's brain chemistry. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably to protect government executives in case of a world catastrophe. Too bad no one had enough time to make it here—I’m sure most of them fried like the rest.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I think she wants you bad, Todd,” Mr. Prentiss Jr. sneers. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Not too bad,” she said, touching the ankle gingerly. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I have a bad feeling about both of you,” she replied. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Beecher published a detailed list of the twenty-two worst offenders, including researchers who’d injected children with hepatitis and others who’d poisoned patients under anesthesia using carbon dioxide. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It stank like bad toilets and dead animals. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had some new unfriendly inhabitant of this jungle come to pay them a visit, or was it something worse, like the hunting party? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You’d think those would be the worst words a mother could hear.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we beat the best teams and lose to the worst we’ll still be hurting our record. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The trouble is that they are in fact like dreams, and not necessarily bad ones, and we may have a hard time doing without them. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That thought sat in my stomach like a bad piece of chocolate for the rest of the day. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her fingers linger atop a particularly bad drawing of some sort of horned creature hovering above a circle with holes in it. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The yacht is an oven inside the cabin, which only makes the smell within even worse. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

John Glenn adjusted the capsule to the correct reentry position and prepared himself for the worst. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Now that I am safe, the adrenaline that propelled me here is fading, and the pain is getting worse. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to be on nobody's bad side, especially since I wasn't even really on nobody's good side yet. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

How would I feel if a bunch of other heroes had butted in and made me look bad? The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Justyce: Too bad you weren’t around to say that to the cop who cuffed me for tryna to help my girl. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And in the grip of terror— the worst storm—you yet feel boredom, a deep weariness with it all. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few times it had been really bad, and Pong had watched him choke and gasp like a fish drowning on dry land. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ebola seems to have developed the worst elements of all the above viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To me he looked spiffy, and I just wanted so bad to tell him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She’s this wrinkled old bat with bad breath, so kids avoid her. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It was a bad time in the world. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a bad idea, at least for Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason he was getting a little easier, even permitted himself a chuckle that could have turned to throat-clearing if he saw a bad reaction from me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be honest. Would you really kill bad guys?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh no. I wonder if the gelato was bad.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Surely anyone this good-looking could not be all bad, no matter what Leafie said about him and the Council of Defense. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

All Wash could think was how bad he wanted to find a way to put a smile back on her face. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Things usually get worse before they get better, but today has to be the flip side. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Yeah, i love my friends and I don’t want to say bad things about them, but I feel like they don’t get me sometimes. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She told Quincy that she tried hard to understand that peoples been mean to her and that Quincy always spected the worst out of folks. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Working late was considered “bad taste, bad form, bad science.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Too bad your mother is on the other side of the globe with Her Majesty,” Hannah said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have dealt with worse injuries than this—I have been hit harder than I was by the soldier who slammed the butt of his gun into my jaw while he was arresting me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Doreah took a fever and grew worse with every league they crossed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s a keeplock already—too bad,” I noted, checking my list. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shut up. Festival’s not so bad, is it?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It’s like their bodies are so worn out, once a sickness gets hold of them, it just gets worse and worse till they’re gone. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Father apparently didn’t think piano lessons were a bad idea for me though, if he considered the matter at all. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

"They smelled bad," she recalled, "a stale, sweaty, male odor, their bodies pressing on me to restrain me." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

No one can say whether it’s good news or bad. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the bad things of life, he has twice those of whites. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Meeker, I have bad news. They’re going to execute Sam.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As quickly as possible, he pointed out which were the good guys and the bad guys on the battlefield. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If you were going to be a farmer, you could hardly choose a worse place than New England. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

What he did to me, and what I allowed, must have been very bad if already God let me hurt so much. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she was having flashbacks of Tartarus, enhanced and compounded with all her other bad memories, her mind wouldn’t be able to cope. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If the worst came to the worst, they were going to drop a bag of Dungbombs, but they hoped they wouldn’t have to resort to that — Filch would skin them alive. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I started down a steep slope of feeling bad for myself. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Graham K.’s temper’s just as bad, but that only makes them all the more careful with him. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lizzie’s health grew even worse, as if grief were its own disease. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I really will go, if you want me to. I just think we better talk it through with Haymitch. Make sure we won’t be making things worse for everyone.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And one day, I had my own experience of being perceived as “bad” simply because I was black. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I worry about serving too many hot dogs: when I was young they were carnival food, and supposed to be bad for you. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Pfft. The Cowboys are the worst team in the league.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The air tasted bad in her mouth, as she gasped for breath. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the best one, and it was too bad that she couldn’t think up the real name. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And when you find something that isn’t, then maybe it’s not a bad idea to try to make it whole again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The good and bad bubbled around like vegetables in a huge stew pot. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The worst thing in the world is to go into a lavatory after a man that had a feed of pig’s feet and a night of pints. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now England and France were at war, and things were in a worse fix than ever. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to have to he straight with her, tell her exactly how bad things are. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” the man said, “about a month ago, our mare ran away, and I cursed our bad luck until Old Sai said, ‘You don’t know. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Winterfell might be ruined, but its granite walls would still keep the worst of the wind and weather at bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a second, I feel bad, and then I realize she couldn’t possibly do that. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t cared much on International Mother Language Day, but now the mistakes made her feel even worse. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Kilrain brought some hardtack and bacon and he ate with obvious hunger, but his teeth were bad; he had trouble chewing the hardtack. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know other people have it a lot worse. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I have been a bad man too, and an unhappy man too. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lady Tigros were just as bad as the dudes and one of them slapped Peaches in the face. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Samwell Tarly, the self- proclaimed coward, grossly fat, timid, and near as bad a rider as he was with a sword, who must face the haunted forest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t be worse than it already was. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That worst sort, an abolitionist with a printing press. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The butcher had sold her during his previous stretch of bad luck. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, in a corner of my mind, I felt bad about that. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"She can, and she will. She's just started manipulating you, Camille, and the more you fight back or resist what she wants, the worse it will get." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We wanted a family so bad, all of us. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Cap’n Snow, sir. I never took you for a bad sport. Besides, I’ve got an entire regiment of shrews hidden all about. They’re waiting to hear you honor your wager.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Lord hep me, when I seen you wanted to go so bad, all I could think was up there in New York I’d have you to myself, with nobody around to cast looks, and maybe—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“But even if he’s in the wrong place at the wrong time, a good person shouldn’t go along. He should leave or stop whatever bad that’s happening.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Body aches, chills, no worse than a mild illness,” Kuwei explained. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was in the war, too--he landed on D-Day and all--but I really think he hated the Army worse than the war. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She believed that just as the power of her mind could move the saltcellar on the table, she could also produce deaths, earthquakes, and other, even worse catastrophes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bad news was that the river destroyed many of the boundary markers, erasing all of the landmarks that told farmers which land was theirs to cultivate. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“BOY! YOU THERE! BOY?' Boy was not the worst of the things that Jon Snow had been called since being chosen lord commander. He ignored it. “ A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One can only reproach him for creating Julius pope, for in this he made a bad choice. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Too bad he is not around today to see her open her new box. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Lucky for you,” she said, “I sometimes have a very bad memory.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember she said, “Ken, look at you! You’re worse than her!” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the bad omens side, I see a book titled Cursed or Blessed with Bad Luck? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As a whole, I felt that they were bad, but I would be lucky enough to find the exceptions. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife is dead, and the police think that I killed her. What could be worse than that?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The bad things that happen to us don't define us. It's just important sometimes that people understand where we're coming from." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But they affected the unlearned masses worst of all. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Things are bad for her, that much is clear. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You have heard of a man of bad character, whose true name is Compeyson?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Daffodil Manor wasn’t so bad if there were cookies. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was people like the chaplain, he concluded, who were responsible for giving religion such a bad name and making pariahs out of them both. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Percy Jackson was running toward them, and Piper could tell from his expression that he brought bad news. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mom never talks bad about her, but I know I am not supposed to like this woman, who knew my dad had a girlfriend, a daughter, but flirted with him anyway. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you don’t have it so bad,” she said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a bad wound on the back of his head, but he was still very much alive. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It said, quite clearly, that this wasn’t a case of a bad apple or two in the barrel. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When he wrote & told me he was behind bars, I told him let that be a lesson—that I was glad that it happened that way when it could have been worse. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the worst camps Jack was in was called Gross-Rosen. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

If her spinal cord was damaged, I’d just made it worse, but what other choice did I have? Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was little sign of the level going down, but the banks weren’t giving way and the roads were dry, so people thought the worst was over. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It helped people feel better for a while. Until the worst wave of the influenza hit just a few weeks later. The deadly one. Then it was beyond what any elixir could cure.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It is a good day, and that certainly helps me more than a bad day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

‘Johnny, that hand is not as bad as you think. Burned, wasn’t it?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The itching gets so bad at night that I have mini-tantrums, waving my arms and stamping my feet to keep from scratching or bawling. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to sort out a stranger who was simply taking a shortcut by walking across the field from one with bad intentions. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

To make things worse, it was leaking, so they had to put it in a bucket. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Seeing what was happening had somehow made it worse, as if the rubber was fusing with her flesh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I failed to realize that intelligence tests effectively muck with both your past and your future, clarifying a lifetime of bad choices and setting you up for the inevitability of future failure. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I tell her a much worse embarrassment is not having a gift for Pern. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

See if Needles was still bruised up bad. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Fructosa whined bitterly, “it’s worse than when you left. Welcome back to nothing.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst was the time I had to stand in a ditch filled with icy water to my waist. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘This is a bad bad dream! It is worse than a bad dream! It is a nightmare!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst part was when Moniba would refuse to talk to me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I hunch my shoulders up like I don’t care about the office, but deep down inside I feel kind of bad. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Some days are better than others, and my arcana can repair it. But tonight is a bad one." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The churning of things both bad and unknown kept me awake. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The worst of it is that I have failed. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If it was brave to have identified a thoroughly bad person, then it was wrong of him to turn up with the twins like that, and she felt cheated. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We screamed over good rumors and died of panic at bad news. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, pretty well, my dear, upon the whole. But poor Mrs. Bates had a bad cold about a month ago.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“You think I'm the big, bad wolf, don’t you?” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Watching Sherm tuck the slip of paper into his wallet so carefully, Bridge felt even worse. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was a very nice man because when my mom started crying, he said that it was a very bad accident, and my Aunt Helen was definitely killed instantly. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ceramics class is even worse because Mr. Miller remembered how badly I wanted to get into Prism. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“My mom doesn’t have another family! She doesn’t lie! She isn’t a criminal! You can stop thinking about any theories that make her a bad person!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Although she was a former softball player who had wrestled the controls in airplanes in the worst weather conditions, she could not pull her body weight up to the chin-up bar. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. Things aren’t that bad. And your father and I always have a backup plan. Just in case.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"They think the seizures are all bad," Max says, and I'm guessing she's talking about her parents. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But it also it caused an ache in his heart - a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know what to do with this stuff. It smells bad.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“It is a bad cold, but I will be all right. If you cannot pray with your tefillin, pray anyway. Now I have to go.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had promised Mama I would be home early, but I needed someone to talk to in a bad way. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ron went purple in the face; he looked like a radish with a bad sunburn. “... for the best-played game of chess Hogwarts has seen in many years, I award Gryffindor House fifty points.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: What did your brother used to do that made him bad? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were leaving bad wives or bad jobs or bad towns; they were coming to find something or leave something or get something, to dig up something or bury something or leave something alone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s mighty bad dat it’s gone on so long. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I grew up, a curious woman, a woman of story ghosts and story devils, a woman prone to bad dreams and bad insomnia. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was an ugly, dangerous place, and it made him feel bad to think of the dog all alone out here. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

But when I went to get a mop I saw something worse—that cat, that fool Pete, up on the kitchen table gorging crabmeat salad. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She poured the water carefully over the blanket, and his hand immediately felt worse, more tender altogether. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The mud in the roads actually seemed to flow with currents, as in the rivers and streams, but when it hardened it would be worse than cement. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough my insides squeezed in and stretched out like a monkey grinder’s accordion—no need to let anyone know how frightened I was. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adah is next to last because her one whole side is bad, and then comes Mama last of all, because something in her is even worse hurt than what Adah’s got. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to unexplained deaths of infants parented by poor women, other kinds of “bad parenting” have also been criminalized. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

However, whenever dealing with her, it was always best to prepare for the worst. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Franny awakened with a start—a jolt, really, as though the couch had just gone over a bad bump. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The worst thing about being a kid was that no one told me the truth about my situation. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“After the war, why did you come back to West Virginia if it’s so bad?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wished they would go away, because nothing was worse than someone wanting you to talk when the words you needed to say hadn’t even been invented yet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She felt bad and ungenerous for bringing it up at all. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Food bad enough to kill you with it. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a day of smooth sailing the water has turned choppy and looks to get worse. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It is a worse foolishness to do something foolish and then to be unable to laugh at it later! A fox, then. It was a fox that kept me from the temple.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But the way Twig’s mom smiled at me, it was as if nothing bad had ever happened. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Or to tell me I’m not a bad friend for asking Isabella for her favorite top. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

You got to pass it or you get bad marks. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We found a new waste mart man, but he’s worse than stingy.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“They’ll send me the results here in due time, and I’ll come to your house with the news, good or bad. Get a good night’s sleep tonight.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re nothing but a bunch of stupid children playing grown-up. You have no idea how much worse things could get for all of us.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Lelia cried easily, but back then in our early days I didn’t know and each time she wept I feared the worst, that it meant something catastrophic was happening between us, an irreversible damage. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do small stupid insect not be made by God? Do small mean bad?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me wants to tell her about Ryan, but she’ll call his mother or the bus office and make it worse for David next year. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew that running now was the worst thing I could do. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this time, I’m more frightened than furious, because I’ve seen the monsters out there—and I suspect I’m going to see worse ones before this whole thing is over. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“This Katrina is going to be bad. But no worse than the worst storm. The hurricane isn’t the bad thing. But I can’t figure out what is.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He’d read how in historic times they killed the bearer of bad news. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Don’t make things worse by watching it coming. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

And it was hard to remember a worse day in his life than the one when he turned to his wife and simply said, “This thing’s got to go.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And worse because it’s in the middle of nowhere and we have to camp and I didn’t even bring a tent or a sleeping bag. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

All in all, not a bad way to spend your eighteenth birthday. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She thought it would annoy him, but he only folded his arms under his head, with an imperturbable, “That’s not bad. Thank you, ladies.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genoa was the place to see the bad marbles. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, you shouldn’t stay here. There are bad people about this station who look for young girls from the country.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I think I had a fever, though I had no thermometer to find out, and my ankle swelled very large and looked bad—blue on one side and bright red on the other. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, at that very moment a hidden-message broadcast began. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t smell bad to me,” Armpit said. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I guess the way I said it let him know that something real bad was happening. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the more they got my goat, the worse things they said, especially about Miss Love. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

—That’s a wonderful observation, B. J. See, Shakespeare isn’t so bad. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the worst part about going crazy is that when you’re not crazy anymore, you just don’t know what to think of yourself. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Something bad is going to happen, soon. You’re going to end up in the middle of it. You should be more careful.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In contrast, the students with the teachers identified as cheaters scored far worse, by an average of more than a full grade level. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Last night I had a bad dream, though. Someone was chasing me in a dark alley. I crawled into Maman’s bed and we cried ourselves to sleep.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Any system that constricts teachers—holds them to small-bore metrics, punishes them for forces outside their control, discourages their creativity and spontaneity, chips away at their humanity—is a bad system. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The only knocks on that door recently were bad ones. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The person who wore this had lain in the fields on still nights, when the air near the eejit pens had gone bad. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was pain, but it wasn’t too bad. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I watched him to see if his face was going to change for the worse, but a look of amusement flickered on his face. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Too bad for him I’ve had to hide stuff in my time...this way,” he added, “I think it’s down here....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was the worst one since they became commonplace some years ago. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d thought I hated these guys, but it turned out things changing didn’t always have to be a bad thing. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

That makes it easy and not too bad to lie to them. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

They’d survived the worst natural disaster in known human history—maybe the corner had been turned. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t say what the tip was for, but it must have been pretty bad, or good. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I think I hated that worse than anything. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bad part is we are kind of stuck in the room upstairs again. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Tony’s hurt—in town! Beat up pretty bad,” she choked out. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had been unconscious in the hospital wing for the final match of the previous year, meaning that Gryffindor had been a player short and had suffered their worst defeat in three hundred years. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It only makes sense to start with the worst of the worst. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I will not allow you to do bad gymnastics, because that’s just a waste of time.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She asked whether I wanted to stay for dinner, and I was feeling bad about coming over and embarrassing her, so I said no. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I packed up my suitcase and explained to my uncle that I felt bad about leaving my parents. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She learned about all the infamous acts of both the best and the worst scythes in history. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The shifting of the island grew worse as the fire crept closer. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I woke at dawn as usual, moved my blanket and sleeping bag to the cave, and ate the rest of the fish for breakfast—cold, but cooked, not so bad. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“My pop’s talking to some lawyers, but that stuff takes time. We gotta do something ourselves soon or this is just gonna get worse.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But Holly was in an exceptionally bad mood, even for a fairy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I didn't know if that was good or bad. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The fair was so perfect, its grace and beauty like an assurance that for as long as it lasted nothing truly bad could happen to anyone, anywhere. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Hurting people does not solve anything. It only makes things worse.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

How easy it was to imagine the worst when one was nervous! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Not bad to marry in the church,” the trader said, slightly offended. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The good days began to outnumber the bad. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, she involuntarily sighed and said, “I don’t know why, but all this has a bad smell to me.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“When it comes to people, sometimes it’s a matter of taste, like these cookies. We like some more than others. That’s not bad. It’s just human.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Of all the jobs he was given, this was the worst. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Those girls gave you a bad time,” she says one day. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But there were more bad things than good things. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My clients want to hang me as a witch! And Hazel—her curse is getting worse. Your protection is killing us.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The more it rained, the worse they suffered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It looks worse than I had hoped—wet and sticking instead of scabbed over. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the past three months, her ulcers have gotten much worse. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We shout at these drivers, a string of bad words, and they laugh at us. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look where they got us. Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

If it was possible for Leo to feel worse, he did. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No, really. For overproduced commercial pap, it’s not too bad.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Between everything she told him and her white knuckles on the wheel, Scoob wonders if G’pop was right: maybe coming here was a bad omen. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was worse because Edward was a different rabbit now. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s not just the peak. The vents are open, and the air will be bad for Luna. Everyone else, too, probably.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When the superintendent of Saint Elizabeth’s, Dr. William White, went to Paul’s cell to evaluate her mental health, she was expecting the worst. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He used many bad words to curse his rotten luck. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My teacher looks like the old witch who ate bad children for dinner. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Every day they grow more convinced that the dearth of bad news about Cuba is a conspiracy by the leftist media to keep international support for El Lider strong. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are there good ghosts, Aunt Rose? Are there haints and spirits that aren’t bad? Like how there are good and bad people?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She had no more bad dreams, but the presence of the grave had spoiled the island for her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it’s not so bad being called something proper. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Hazel! This is where it comes from! I know now—something very bad! Some terrible thing—coming closer and closer.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the poorer areas of Philadelphia—those mean, narrow alleys with their run-down, airless houses—had suffered the worst did not escape attention. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Which of us is it worse for, her or me? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The worse you look, the better for you,” Patria said when I complained that I looked like I’d gotten here on a donkey. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had this tense look about them, like they were in a hurry and I’d caught them at a bad time. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And yet even as he embraced that bleak understanding, on this, the worst day of the winter, he recalled something he’d seen on the worst day of the worst heat wave of the summer. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not a bad job, and if an inmate does die, it’s no problem—unless he’s found with rigor mortis. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My teacher said gambling was a very bad thing to do." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Dad said it was not that the people were bad to begin with. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, Stuart caught a bad cold, and this turned into bronchitis, and Stuart had to stay in bed for almost two weeks. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I approach Mr. Griffiths with dread, ready to get a lecture or, worse, a failing grade. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Tonight while we’re eating the chicken cooked too long and rice not cooked enough, I’m missing Mama’s neckbones, gravy, and cornbread bad. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

In the evening, “I often have to shut my ears to their gossip. If I join in, I feel as though I’m condoning them and I feel bad.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Skipping day one of summer school seems like a bad start,” Dylan says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Not as bad as all that,” the doctor said easily. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You do not have to give me any notice. I did not think you would want to stay now the bad weather is come.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

People were robbed — or, for girls, much worse — all the time. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to hate Andrew for being with the bad women, but I could not. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he spent the rest of his life being stared at by a giant eye and hummed over, things could be worse. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then, as usual, the sheep broke into “Four legs good, two legs bad!” and the momentary awkwardness was smoothed over. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They’d ended in old Rome with Leo breaking a cookie and paying a price much worse than an eye. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It means I have radiation poisoning. Very bad.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I think it's not too bad to soak. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’m figuring that my parents threw the letters away because they think you might be a bad influence on me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The woman had a bad fall from what I can tell. This here gent, he carried her in here. I cleaned the blood up best I could.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worse things are for me, the better some folks like it. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You always put on your best face, even if you are having a bad day. You leave that behind,” he says. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“In a good way, or in a bad way?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Harry noticed that the contents proved difficult to empty into the Pensieve, as though they had congealed slightly; did memories go bad? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

You see all these TV shows about kids being at their worst. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She held the pencil like a butter knife and her penmanship was as bad as Clever’s. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents pulled me from school because they were too scared of what might happen to me, terrified that my suspension could lead to much worse. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Lord, where do I start? I guess by sayin’ how bad I feel for keepin’ out of touch the last ten years or so.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I continued to feel uneasy; in fact the next night was slightly worse. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and thought to myself, Maybe this grade isn’t so bad after all. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In this sense, these media have been good for audiences and bad for performers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, the evening news feels like the worst kind of entertainment. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m embarrassed that people will think we went to see such bad movies.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The salsa tasted funny, or perhaps it was the aftereffects of the bad air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pops’s leg is no worse than usual, but how’s the Cougar?” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They know how to make you feel horrible, just thinking of all the stupid things and bad things you ever did. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I know that if I start drinking now, I will feel better for an hour or two and worse for six or seven. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not all news is bad news,” Gay said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I just want to hate her; if I can hate her, then it won’t be so bad that I love him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To make it worse, Adam had forgotten how to make the cut. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At worst, they function unabashedly as kleptocracies, transferring net wealth from commoners to upper classes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Neither did I. I couldn’t tell if there was too much to see, or if my eyes were getting bad. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything is just as bad as I thought it would be. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It wouldn't be so bad if you could both be blindfolded or something. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I think that from now on I will try to forget the bad. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d met Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, in person, and her powers had scared me worse than Ares. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Five days total, if everything goes well. I think I just need to avoid having another meltdown. Then I have to go to therapy, which is not so bad, I guess.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger remembered many of his own bad dreams and, for a moment, he was tempted to put out his hand and wake Meggie. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His brows are furrowed as if he expects me to give him some bad news. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t think Mrs. Sarota realizes that she’s making me feel like I’m a rotten person for making her feel so bad. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse for Washington, the question about whether he could legally call Congress into session outside Philadelphia was still very much up in the air. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She began worrying that something bad had happened to her sister in that hospital. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She backs away from the roller coaster like it might reach out and swallow her, and I suddenly wonder if this whole thing was a bad idea. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thoughts that could get him run out of town or worse. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was a bad Saturday morning, on the verge of getting worse. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It’s not the fault of the Dutch that we Jews are having such a bad time. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Open up, Mother. This is a new kind of medicine. Now be brave, dear. This will taste bad.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gale says no one wanted to look bad by admitting they couldn’t control us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The economic injustice toward Virginia and most of the southern states—South Carolina was the exception, since it had not retired much of its debt was bad enough. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“His behavior was very, very bad...he hurt those that I love.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If the man was awkward, his wife is ten times worse. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They ran out, as had her mother, and sang the same song that her mother had sung, telling her to go away because she smelled so bad. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Too bad it’s a trash fish. You’ll have to throw him back.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Which was too bad, because she had no real skills. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And that would be bad how?” said someone else, and the crowd cracked up. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The worst news was that the crime-scene technicians had found something unusual in the charred rubble of the casino boat—a fireproof, waterproof lockbox that was packed with cash. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Hurts worse than anything else in the world, like it’s burning for a while, and there’s a sharp pain for a while?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew that these days there wasn’t much news and most of it was bad. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sitting through class was rough, but the worst was when Maxie Brown passed me in the hall. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was sick to his stomach, but worse than that his body was trembling in a frightening way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she pretended I didn’t exist, maybe those bad feelings would just go away. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And then Papa would be here and it would get worse before it got better. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I felt bad to have been so short with him. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sure, I felt bad about snooping, but if people here insisted on keeping things secret, well, I’d just have to find stuff out for myself. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The hot day had put him in a bad temper. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

That left a bad taste in his mouth as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re not getting enough rest, and you’re having bad dreams. Do you know you count in your sleep? And I know it isn’t sheep. No one counts four million sheep.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But even worse was the sound of his uncle’s voice, barking through the open dining room window. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel bad for Miss Skeeter. I know she don’t want a go, but Miss Hilly tell her if she don’t, she lose her officer job.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Everything is so confusing and all your words only make things worse.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She listened while Grover completed his report—the details getting worse and worse. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe he thinks I’ll be a doctor one day even though I hate blood, and bad smells, and the actual insides of bodies. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When I was about nine years old, there was a bad drought in our region. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dear,” said Lee, “if I heard such a piece of news I think my first impulse would be to telephone someone. Maybe you’d have a bad connection.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the elevator we were crowded and as my legs bent the pain was very bad. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Getting worse,” she replied, buzzing from bed to bed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And though Ben and Joon argued it was a bad idea, given what might happen in the night, Jinny shook her head. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I hear my mom rummaging through the kitchen, saying something about peanut butter going bad. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I tried some medication and it didn’t help. It made it worse, actually. And it made me supertired all the time. I could barely get out of bed.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was staring at them and fixed his mouth in the way people do when they're thinking, Not bad. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Who had the good fortune to open that one, and was there one bad thing down there in the bottom of the good box? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I went to Tabernacle instead. You know, the Christian school? Anyway, Dad didn’t want me having any bad influences.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s a bad idea just as much as it’s a bad idea to skip meals or stay awake in bed in the morning or stop taking your Zoloft, but there’s no hope for me now. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean it that way. I meant like ruin your life. I’m making this worse.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I hate to be the bearer of bad news,” I said, pointing off to a faint smudge of smoke rising from the trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The fate of the survivors might be worse. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The Doctorita glares at me, then says, “Don’t make me out to be the bad guy again, Carlos.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Defensive because I certainly didn’t force him to react in this way, which will only make it worse for him, if not me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Which is good, 'cause it proves I can speak like a normal person, but bad, 'cause how can Mrs. de Roo ever defeat Hangman if she never even sees him properly? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The rocky hole he lived in was to him like the worst nightmare of imprisonment would be to a human being. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

"I'd rather not discuss it, Brother. Business is bad. Very bad." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did you have a bad dream after all? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing worse than sitting at headquarters would be sitting at home. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were demons who hid in men’s bodies and made them sick or mad, but those were not the worst. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally a voice piped up from the back of the room: “His brother was worse.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She took out her phone and dialed Tim, while everything around her creaked and wires hung from the ceiling like a scene out of a bad movie. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Which was the worst thing that could have happened. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“What you thought happened now, it was just a bad dream. When we wake up, we’ll be there. We’ll wake up...en México, mi amor.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Washington Observatory, William Lowell Putnam drily notes: “There may be worse weather, from time to time, at some forbidding place on Planet Earth, but it has yet to be reliably recorded.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Women! Women people! I know I’m bad at this,” I said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She was his size and she didn’t make him feel bad. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Forget this happened. It was a bad idea from the start.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Willoughby! What a name! Worse and worse!” said Miss Lark despairingly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“You just wait—our journey isn’t going to be half as bad as those hairy-footed people’s quest. It will be much shorter, too.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But no one answers, not even Mr. Allen, which seems bad. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a selfless and steely tone to his voice, that of a person delivering bad news to other people while remaining strong on their behalf. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I knew sendin’ them down here was a bad idea,” he was fuming. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The fog was good as well as bad, because it hid us, but it was just so hard to see. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He can see inside our heads, where we think the bad things. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a letter apologizing for the bad customer service. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Being forced to wear a head scarf would only accentuate my bad skin. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was cryin’ out for help, but my cries only made things worse. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You never really told me what happened to Alby that day— why he was in such bad shape. Obviously the Griever woke up, but what happened?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“And I will never make you feel bad about that. Would Octavius?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Like, six or something. But the other ones weren’t this...you know, bad. These notes are worse than the other ones I wrote. The other ones weren’t so...” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. van D. had a bad cold and had already gone to bed, so we gathered around his bedside and discussed our suspicions in a whisper. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But anything that makes me feel better can’t be that bad. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was afraid I would paint him as a sentimentalist or, worse, some spineless ally of the Cuban government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The worse the death, the funnier we find the story. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They gave the medicine to sick children and parents and took it themselves when fevers and coughs grew worse. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I’m fine. Must have eaten something bad at breakfast.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He cheered up suddenly and amazingly, “Say, that wouldn’t be bad at all. There’s nothing to that.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He wrote a novel, and it was not really such a bad novel as the critics later called it, although it was a very poor novel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They had a bad start when the first tree fell, knocking down several smaller trees into Franca’s kitchen area. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I agreed that it wasn’t a bad list. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Once it got so bad that he vomited for twelve days in a row. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My son wasn’t exaggerating. I have connections. People I used to rally with. Many who helped us after things went bad.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She made this one too, but the woman across the street helped her with it, so it ain’t so bad. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Kids say much worse words than stupid, Mama. This is America. You should get used to it.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, the rain had started again. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There are good chimpanzee mothers and bad chimpanzee mothers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It closely connected to our work on criminal justice issues; I believe that so much of our worst thinking about justice is steeped in the myths of racial difference that still plague us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

All of them bad news, no matter how you cut it. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes go extra wide because I can’t believe she is just going to walk away and leave this big pot of bad feelings behind. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Whatever they thought Thurmond was like, whatever they believed I’d gone through, it was bad enough to mark me as pathetic in their eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I think you do not know anything about being conquered and so you think it is not bad.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“If you liked it here, that would be a very bad prognosis!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I will always make bad errors of speech. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The foot-people bad been early mislaid because they did not understand the notes of the horn. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the rainy days when Mother wasn't feeling quite bad enough to stay away from the windows we used to play under it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you had to select the least convivial scientific field trip of all time, you could certainly do worse than the French Royal Academy of Sciences’ Peruvian expedition of 1735. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The worst days spent with her were better than the best days spent without her. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Confirming the radio listeners’ worst fears, a downcast voice lamented, “They wrecked the greatest country in the world.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Was it fate that took you from your family and stuck you in a pleasure house in Ketterdam? Or was it just very bad luck?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He propped himself up on his elbows, more himself now that the worst part of the story was over, and peered into my eyes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

For safety against bad ones, her hair is now always hidden. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The silence that walled up between us made everything worse. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going too fast, even for me, I need to slow down; if I don’t slow dow n something bad is going to happen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the first shock of recognition, I couldn’t help but feel bad for Jacob. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Oh, baby, how you’ve come back to me. You come back serious and with a liver. I tell you this war is a bad thing. Why did we make it anyway." A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And he’s running from the bad people. He says they are close.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The situation was bad enough without making it worse by torturing himself. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The more nervous I am, the worse my reading gets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Is he a bad man?" the Lord of the Eyrie asked, his mother's breast popping from his mouth, the nipple wet and red. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s just me. I’m really bad at this.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I feel bad about, you know, fighting you and everything.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I prepare for the worst, maybe the hurricane won’t come. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Russ doesn’t say anything in response, so I worry that he feels bad about sharing his good memory when I don’t have one to match his. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d loved it—until things got worse and its ticking sounded more like dark footsteps coming up behind me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Seeing them would be worse than staring at the face of Medusa. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And when the ball hit the ground, it took the worst possible bounce right into Ms. Adams's yard, where Brutus the Rottweiler lived, chained to a tree. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Something deeper, more pernicious was at work here: a wide division between the wealthy and the poor that was made worse by fear. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

She would stamp out all of the things that were bad about Johnny as they came up in the boy, Neeley. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know just as well as me that Roskus got the rheumatism too bad to do more than he have to, Miss Cahline.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

William didn’t know what it was, but he was sure that it was much, much worse. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he is dressed in a plain suit, and the next time he will be black with dirt and smelling bad and in the overalls he wears to work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In fact, not only did she not get worse, but she did get better, in more ways than one. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“A bad danger. Yes, I see. How very upsetting,” said the Chief Rabbit, looking anything but upset. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the women tried to shame us, and Vonetta and I stood our ground, the worst had happened. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“They sure looked scared. And sad. I felt real bad for ’em.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You know those cuts on your face really aren’t that bad?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There were a million ways to ask what I wanted to know and I chose the worst one when I said, “What in Sam Hill are you going to do with a doggone rock?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

If the tide of bad press and angry editorials about the potential law continued, they both agreed that it would be sunk before it ever had a chance to be tested. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It’s bad enough they call me Battle of the Bulge behind my back. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Certainly not. There are no such creatures. The Queen is a real one, and one of the worst of them.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The more you hold them in, the worse you get. When you release them, they got to go somewhere else. The Bible says He can carry all that burden.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His worst dream started in the courtyard of the Sonoma Wolf House. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“My bad. I didn’t know shoes determined somebody’s race.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Even in all that wind the funk was bad. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this time her eyes got all glassy and a couple tears came running down her cheeks, which made the pressure on the back of my eyes get way worse. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My mother said, “Lord above, it’s worse than I thought.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes at night he would have a bad dream. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I can stand across from the everyday Anne and, without being biased or making excuses, watch what she’s doing, both the good and the bad. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“We’re over that hurdle. I don’t think anything is going to be as bad as losing, and I don’t see any way of winning.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Man, my bad, but I wasn’t feeling that well. Went to bed early. Long day,” I said, walking backward. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I knew that if I had not scored so highly on the I.Q. tests, I would have been considered just bad, or rebellious. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Mirren’s got it the worst, but Gat and I are feeling it, too.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was the worst sound I had ever heard in my life. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Since leaving St. Louis, Alice had heard nothing from home and feared her mother’s illness might have gotten much worse. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

What if they do bad things to me? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“He was. He wasn’t anything like this bad yesterday. He’s been a bit lame for a few days, but nothing like this.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They tell each other that I am definitely bad and point to my stomach. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sitting around for a day or two sounded like the worst idea possible to Mark. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We have to do spelling tests and sums in arithmetic; it’s like real school, but worse, because we never get to draw pictures. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I feel bad for her, so I buy the fish platter. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They did not even call what she did “work,” or “art,” which in their minds would have been just as bad. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That wouldn’t be so bad if they offered you a drop of sherry and a ham sandwich. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I thought: This would not be a bad way to go. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The worst part was, I didn’t care that we had stolen. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the hallway outside my door, Haymitch gives my shoulder a pat and says, “You could do a lot worse, you know.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The first thing I noticed,” remembered Edward Teller, “was that we were all going to be locked up together for better or for worse.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it's worse because Mom and Dad are doing a lot better and they feel like they have to call me all the time now—which is something new for them. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every good story needs a bad guy, don’t you think? Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Darwin thought the trip was a bad idea. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under this unholy barrage of my parents’ confusion and shame and disappointment, even I almost feel bad for Charlie. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Something bad happened...I left it in neutral, and somebody crashed into the back of it while it was parked. Some damage to the rear, and the front is wrecked. They didn't leave a note." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So I promised to make him some, and he smiled kind of, and I decided—well, he wasn’t the worst young man I ever saw. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Being kidnapped sounds like bad luck to me,” Finn said, giggling. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It got so bad that when the concerts were over, he took to crawling into the matchbox and pushing up a piece of Kleenex to block the entrance. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not the worst. It’s just...it’s all complicated,” Jasmine says. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“He speaks the truth,” Bernabe said, covering the mouthpiece as he whispered to his wife, “Carolina, get me a couple aspirins, will you? This is getting worse.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first the taste in my mouth gets even worse; it’s something thick and awful, like tar all inside my mouth and down my throat and up my nose. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I wake in the morning alone in my bedroom at Miss Preston’s, groggy and with memories of the treacherous Rachel scratching at my brain, I’m in an even worse mood. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The bad dreams which had plagued me did not come, and I grew strong with the work and good food. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I say that things are worse than they were a year ago. What do you say?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew they were in worse circumstances than they had been even at Ocean Camp. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He wanted Marion Allen to see just how big and bad he could be. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I won’t even say, ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time,’ because even then, I knew it was a really bad idea.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She sees only bad things that affect our family. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had once been red, but the paint had weathered, faded and peeled, until it looked pink as a bad sunburn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Was that a bad lady, Papa?” she asked eagerly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he began to speak of his many adventures, his riotous life, the marvels he had seen, the scrapes he had escaped, his fortunes good and bad. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

That is something that could have been all bad. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Then she gives them a stern look, as if to tell them not to say anything bad to upset me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cradle of life, made of bones; and within, hazards, warped proteins, bad crystals jagged as glass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the Carnage red and bloody in her hearts, she had tried her best and done her worst. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She hadn't had a very good opinion of the counselor, but in the last hour she had been feeling bad about his lost cat. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

"Don't get him started on bad habits," Gram says. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem right for someone to get shot by their own dad, get bad kidneys, and then that’s it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Tally watched the fireworks, feeling a thousand times worse than she had before Shay had appeared at the window. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You think that was bad? You should see them when they really get going.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But he followed, asking with an air of sympathy, “Did you have a bad time?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worst comes to worst, I can always take a study hall. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Both Francis and Henry offered to drive me home, which for some reason made me feel even worse. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She could hardly imagine the punishment given someone who had done something bad enough to be worth five hundred thousand. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bad thing, he decided, getting used to all that good food that Sairy and Tiller heaped on the table. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What do I do if he gets worse during the night?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No, he looks like a good man. Just doing his job. I don’t know, Willie, this could be bad.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Throughout the nation, as the news spreads, Abraham Lincoln’s worst fears are being realized. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the summertime, this wasn’t too bad, but in the winter, freezing cold drafts blew across the floor all night long, and it was awful. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I know he has to be worried, and I do feel very bad, but I need to go to 5545 Mariendahl Road, or I’m afraid I’ll never want to try to find my mom again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But when Ricky grabbed Luke’s bad hand, trying to force his arm behind his back, instinct kicked in. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Even worse, both doors were plainly dinted by something inside trying to get out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s not so bad,” I said through a clenched jaw. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

No obviously bad effects were noticed from these ill-advised unions, but one or two old maids or gardener boys marked a weakening of faculties and a disposition toward eccentricity in some of the children. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I caught up with him, Georgie had gotten over the worst of his anger. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He blinks, and I feel sort of bad about what I’ve said. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In the cruel light of the morning, it looked squalid, neglected, overgrown, and there was something worse: the steps of the little mausoleum were stained with blood, a great deal of it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t sleep. I had a bad dream...about Mama.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was coughing and it got worse and it woke the child. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m having just the worst day,” she says. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I swear I can almost hear that new mother let out a sigh of relief, as if she can't wait to get her baby away from me and whatever bad luck or germs I carry. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Those who were failures, near death, didn’t like working, bad with money, or cheap politicians were specifically not welcome, the same pamphlet said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived in one room and that was a garage and now they were letting someone view their situation and, even worse, be part of it? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Jason had a talent for staying levelheaded in a crisis, and he’d gotten Leo out of plenty of bad scrapes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Doubly surprised that he would have the bad grace to interrupt me when I was in a private conversation with a young woman. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The Cape’s not so bad. You’re safer there than lots of places. For instance—take the Mediterranean. There—you’d be running from a French privateer, and probably be hulled by a Barbary pirate.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Thomas, things just seemed to be getting worse and worse. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help when I pointed out that I had to wear a white carnation in my lapel and that wearing a purple orchid wasn’t nearly as bad. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But I knew she wouldn't do well with news that I got into a fight, and that Needles got beaten pretty bad. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” said Officer Delinko, rubbing his chin, “so then, how about a disgruntled customer? Maybe someone who once had a bad breakfast at a Mother Paula’s!” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just think it’s bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘But first, what’s the bad news ... I mean, aside from the statue being sideways? You said we had trouble.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“She’s been hurting and bleeding for a while now. I fear something bad is wrong with her.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This is wrongful detention! No, worse—abduction! That’s it, abduction. Are you aware how many years in jail you’d get for it?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I feel bad, so I start to search. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I try to get the ball to Hakim next, but I make another bad pass and suddenly I have two turnovers and four missed shots in a row. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she looks at me, I can tell she’s wearing mascara, but not because she’s done a bad job putting it on. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I heard Bud Searcy’s talk to Mama when they rode up, but I was hurting too bad even to roll over and look out the door. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to make things even worse, this is the year of the Seventy-fifth Hunger Games, and that means it’s also a Quarter Quell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And he could see as well that they had not yet approached the worst of it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It’s so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that’s the worst in your life, but to everybody else it’s just an ordinary night. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

No matter what bad stuff he might get into. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I think Rome at its worst had nothing on Chicago during those lurid days.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I appreciate your concern, but this is just a piece of the story, not even the worst piece, and I am not telling it to garner sympathy.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was the worst game of Pete and Repeat they had ever played. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“The worst of winter, snowmelt, spring flood. Two moons, perhaps, and the bridge will welcome us back!” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, it was definitely dour and of a previous century, and only made worse with doily lace. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only one who could lift her bad spirits was Baba Joseph. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry felt even worse when they reached his vault. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Somehow it seemed worse to mess up, to ruin everything months, rather than years before they could escape. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Even if he had smelled like a penned pig, I couldn’t really hold it against him, as I had no doubt smelled worse at various points in my life. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing it’s bad news, because her face gets worried and sort of sad. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Heroines usually are the Kingdom of Death’s worst nightmares. They’re always barging in, waving scraps of metal around, and demanding things. No manners whatsoever.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Is there something we can use as a small stretcher? I don’t want to hurt him worse by carrying him upstairs myself.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m not back on drugs, Ms. Lewis. I’m simply in a bad situation at the moment. I’m begging you, mother to mother, to give me more time.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She smelled bad, or perhaps it was her house: Harry wrinkled his nose as they sidled past her and pulled off the Cloak. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Certainly not the kind of person who would make a bad decision and kill two men. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Understand, Grim never yells at Gram, not that I can ever remember, and Gram, well, the worst thing she ever does is cry when she's mad. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I must look even worse than when I first came in. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was like those first days in East Texas, only worse. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was worse for Mam, who discovered on the boat she was again with child and could hardly keep any food down. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A lot of good times, and in our case, just as many bad times. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Seems to me like you got a real bad memory. Who you think took all that stuff off your little behind all these years? What goes around goes around.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was younger and the anxiety got this bad, when the stakes in his life were much, much lower, this would be the point of self-destruction. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her hands were shaking so bad that she had to hand it to Joaquin. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Johnny and Tyrone were normal little bad kids, just like me. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now that it has come, it proves a mild disaster. My lamps were undamaged. No one was killed. Of all the small injuries, mine were the worst, as it should be.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes bad things are meant to happen so it can bring attention to the worse things that will happen if someone doesn’t pay attention. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, alone in the coach, pulled by a team of four coal-black stallions, Lord Primus left the village of Nottaway, in significantly worse temper than he had arrived there. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think Anna and her mom are bad influences on me?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

And they would rather see Prince Jones followed by a bad cop through three jurisdictions and shot down for acting like a human. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She sounds shocked, and like I’m the one who did the worse thing. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Her screaming at Sasquatch was the last thing I heard before they started pushing me through the pod, which is about the worse situation you can ever find yourself in, man. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s bad enough you embarrassed this family at the tryout, and now I find you on the floor like a toddler?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps, inside myself, unconsciously,'you could say, I bad not a proper purpose of amendment...” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, one of her annoying superstitions. You were still in my belly. It had something to do with a baby getting bad luck if the mother looks at the dead.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The way The Taker’s fingers drop suddenly from her wrist—Annabelle knows it’s bad. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And sad for Theo to receive, “but it’s worse for the poor woman.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Not bad,” she says, tapping her manicured nails on the countertop. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Those walls would keep the worst things out and safeguard his secrets within. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

That I was feeling bad for the way I treated him. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He’s still out there, and he could be hurt—or worse. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, she said it was the worst days of her life, but that was before Olga died.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"A lady does not discuss such things over her porridge. Where are your courtesies, Sansa? I swear, of late you've been near as bad as your sister." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That’s why, even though I liked being, bad all the time, I tried hard to be good. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was probably a bad idea to keep Executives waiting, Sticky had said. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are two kinds of comparisons going on, as bad as and worse than. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s not a bad sort,” I mused after he left. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s very, very bad, and he’s not going to make it,” he said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How bad must it have been at her husband’s home to choose this as a better alternative? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I figured all this was icky enough to make Katie want to keep her distance but not so bad that she’d wonder why I wasn’t in the hospital. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s nothing. I just felt bad for him, is all.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And I hold my breath, believing in spite of his words to those bad ones that this guy may be Death. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I left the Behavioral Center with the tape and with a very bad feeling. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knocked them down, sure, but he could have done so much worse. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her life would change so much for the worse when she remembered. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I shrug, because this is sixth grade and I am not going to yell at Maddy or, worse, cry in the middle of the cafeteria. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Asha herself was spared the worst of it; she was the king’s prize, after all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It looked like a junkyard—no, a tailgate party for a really bad demolition derby. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was ready to go whenever the good Lord called her, she said, and so Turner—and Lizzie, too, if she was there—had best be prepared for the worst. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that bad, Mom,” she protests weakly. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Nice little bass. Not bad for the first try,” Wash said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The men were brutish, but the spirits that flitted about them were far worse. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he shouldn’t have told his dad how bad it was. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I went, both to the brook and to the store, and it was a bad business, but I could not help it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The summer wore on, and things got worse. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

How could I warn them without making it worse? Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He’ll notice I’m not brain-dead like the rest of them and something bad will happen to me, I just know it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When he got secretive like this, it meant something bad. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Soaking in Sula give me a bad back.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then his head jerked violently, and he let out a shrill scream, worse than the one before. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Mom’s never-ending knitting project. It’s a bad omen.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to learn magic to hurt people. I won’t be like Moreau and those other bad magicians. And you shouldn’t use that stuff either.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“But something happened. The next day he read what he’d written and went into one of his dark moods. Claimed the whole thing was the worst idea he’d ever had.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For us she found new words so bad we couldn’t translate them, although our Chinese was as good as our English. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Quincy, you are a woman. You can make your own decisions — I’m not going to meddle and risk making things worse. I can’t force you to tell the police. But I think you should.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As we rounded the corner to our home, we prepared ourselves for the worst. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Now and then, she said, bad things start growing inside us. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got some shallow scrapes on my palms, and the knees of my jeans were stained green, but it could have been worse. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” said Andrew’s uncle, “I don’t like that book. It’s one of the worst of its kind.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I,” said his captor, “am Nobody. And you need to change. Turn over a new leaf. Reform. All that. Or things will get very bad for you.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She was made up of all of these good and these bad things. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come to think of it, you’d better give me a new valise. My old one’s in pretty bad condition....” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that evening, Pa comes home and tells me I am not going to die, that it is only a bad cut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even if he was, I knew that boy. Watched him grow up with you. He was more than any bad decision he made,” he says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

What was worse, she suddenly didn’t want the olive at all and wondered why she had even asked for it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

When you telescope them into as bad or worse than, you lose an as. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was considered as being bad enough to be a slave; but to be a poor man’s slave was deemed a disgrace indeed! Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was one point when I remember eating a meal and saying to myself, This isn’t so bad. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

No one bothered to tell me to move my party to another date, and worse yet, they were having the biggest Christmas party of the season without inviting me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even my grandfather, who’d filled my head with stories of tentacle-tongued monsters, had realized images like these would give any kid bad dreams. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It’s wet—and the smell is worse than before. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Having nothing to do but sit in a tree makes it worse, so I decide to give into it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Too bad for the soldier that when the war broke out, curators removed The Night Watch from Het Rijksmuseum, rolling up the canvas and trucking it to a castle in the country somewhere. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Since when is bad cleanliness against the rules? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I think, If I fold into a small ball of patience, surely things can't get any worse. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But now I knew that, worst of all, it would give the governor yet another excuse to keep us out of school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first and only experience with magic had left me with a sore eye and hands that throbbed from bad medicine. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Prison food had been pretty bad, and prison food was better than this. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And Annie’s voice was worst of all—dripping with a concern Toby had learned to live without. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on, it’s not that bad,” Esperanza insisted, and rested her head on top of his. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They opened into other realms, some of them good, some of them bad. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was never disappointed, since I always expected the worst to happen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If She looked inside Matt, She would see the bad thoughts about Rosa and the doctor and be sad. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In certain situations you could do incredible things, you could advance toward enemy fire, but in other situations, which were not nearly so bad, you had trouble keeping your eyes open. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel bad that I was mean to him in group, so now I feel helpful in the worst way. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In my head, I start making plans about where we can spend the night if the rain is still this bad once it gets dark. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the worst kind of luck to leave a dead body in the open overnight—especially when the person died of unnatural causes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As if all that wasn’t bad enough, it started to rain hard, too. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nothing was all good or all bad either; it all depended. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even sharing what he knows about you with others is not as bad as knowing something and not telling you he knows. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know, I’m not James Bond, I don’t have some guidebook on how to hide from the bad guys. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even worse was when Mom said how cute it would be if the two of us ended up dating. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know the worst of it. I—I don’t like to talk about my family. I didn’t want you to know. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said anything.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I doubts that. Sweet bread is pure. But a pie is the worse thing to give anybody ailing. I’m surprised Jimmy didn’t know better.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough he’d thrown that book away in the first place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t want to be my dad,” I say, and Embryo listens so seriously and closely, his thick arms crossed over his thick chest, that I feel bad. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He said the offensive in Flanders was going to the bad. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The only bad thing is that with the equator being above us the change of seasons comes backwards, which does take some getting used to. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called Katz, for the novelty of using a telephone, and learned that his room was even worse. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

His only flaw seems to be linked to being cheap, which really isn’t that bad of a thing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Violence hung about the place like a bad smell. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And then I was so thirsty that even the white stuff did not taste so bad this time. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was twelve, things got so bad, we’d be nervous every day when we came home. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After spending all her life at Towac, she didn’t need to be wasting her time there, in the middle of nowhere, some place worse than the reservation she had left. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The main thing, she realized, was to forget your childhood dreams, for the Fire Swamp was bad, but it wasn’t that bad. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And, as Roosevelt would soon witness, when a situation becomes so desperate and dangerous that death seems inevitable, fear can bring out the worst in people. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But if I had to eat a healthy breakfast, maybe thinking it was a bowlful of mini donuts wasn’t the worst thing in the world. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell he felt bad, but I didn’t care about his feelings, anyway. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first time Grover came, Helen, feeling bad, had sent up a giant bowl of shrimp and peas with Virginia ham. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was going to tell you that it was kind of weird. Okay, it was really weird. But it wasn’t so bad.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The worst of it was that they didn’t seem to notice he was different—or that he felt different. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It only got worse when we passed the elementary school. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was stuttering worse than usual and having great difficulty getting his words out. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I just hope this cabin doesn’t flood. That would be bad.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

How was she going to remove her boots without using her bad hand? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too narrow for us to descend side by side, so I followed Helen, who seemed to be in no hurry, and complained at one point that she had a bad knee. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One cannot find advisers who are any different, for men always turn out bad for you, unless some necessity makes them act well. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I left in a worse state than that in which I'd come. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when it happened, it made me feel bad because I felt like I should’ve spent more time with him. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” he said, in a real bad mood. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think maybe we ought to find a place we could go... in case it get bad?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“This is the worst heist Gum Baby has ever been a part of.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, we didn’t actually see it go down, but by the looks of it, it was pretty bad.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the weather was nice, the gangs got more active and the shooting got worse. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This day had gone from bad to worse. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“It will be worse for you if you hide!” they called. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was only on Prozac for three months before Dr. Howell switched me, but it was pretty much the worst three months in the Search for the Right Medication. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Too bad, because I know how much you like contests.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My throat is dry, and I feel like I’ve been given bad news, but I still haven’t entirely grasped what that bad news is. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But I wasn't alone, and worse, I feared he was waiting for us on the path below. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It will be much worse if you lie to me. You can trust me on that.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I do not know if this is good or bad. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And all the while Kerwin hopping up and down like he’s permanently on a pogo stick, saying, “I bad. I bad.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was right—my increased visibility brought new opportunities, both good and bad. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Horrible things. The worst kinds of torture. You drowned me slowly. You burned my heart from my chest. You blinded me.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I’d already heard from Pa that she was ill, but I didn’t know that it was as bad as you said. Write to me about this soon, if you will.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

What I wanted to know was how people ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner with the smell of cows—and worse—overwhelming their nose buds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of course competition is imperfect, and for a time scientists may set out on the wrong path; but over time good results will drive out bad ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This day had gone from good to bad to worse. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once I asked Granny what Uncle Buson did that was so bad, but she wouldn’t tell me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They never would have let things get this bad. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He shook his lasso of poison vines and insulted the monsters’ bad breath, stirring them into a fury. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It took a concerted effort to keep from telling Yusef to go away, that this was obviously a bad time for small talk, that he clearly had no idea how to read social cues— A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I suspected bad karma sneaking up on me with a nine iron. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I try not to have any negative thoughts about white people or fear how much worse it could get for Negroes. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing I hate worse than Stygian iron.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Percy grimaced, which looked even worse on his newly uglified face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But really, he’s worse off than I am. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then it'll be back to five more days like today, worse than today, far worse than today. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was a tradition in our house to binge on bad disaster movies instead of football or parades. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I had a bad feeling the prophecy was connected to that. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I felt like some kind of bad dog that had pooped all over the carpet, eaten the slippers, and attacked the mailman, and was now being sent to obedience school. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever he did to me, I did back, and maybe worse. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bladder area was the worst, covered by a solid mass of cancerous tissue. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Mancini bows his head, as if he doesn’t want Mami to see the bad news written all over his face. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“So it is a bad firing. It is the worst thing in the world. Oh, God, we needn’t explain it again.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

People clap every time, no matter whether it was good or bad. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It must be really bad for her to hold up the line this way. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We order from the bad pizza place with the yellowy cheese. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Even back when we were very young I remember running to throw my arms around Mother’s knees when he regaled her with words and worse, for curtains unclosed or slips showing—the sins of womanhood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can tell by its wobbly silhouette that it’s in bad shape, too. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Baba came and went, came and went, and the fighting between them got worse. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Because I already have a bad rap and I want her to know that I’m really trying to do everything I can to not be like that. I’ma graduate. And I’ma make her happy.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And it was very bad for the animals, too, who had to look in all sorts of places for water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Not bad. You put up a hell of a fight, Emi. You’re just going to have to fight a little bit harder to beat me.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he finally got back we were all sitting on the couch watching the worst cartoon ever made, Clutch Cargo. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl joined Molly with a cigar, meeting his wife’s scowl with his customary defense, “Everyone has to have some bad habit.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His voice was getting softer and softer and that was worst than if he’d been yelling. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The book has a lot of bad grammar, and my dad says it got banned when he was in school because it was racist. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her curls brushed his cheeks, and he felt that if he could just hold her a little longer, every wound, every hurt, every bad thing would melt away. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And actually, finishing the dissection wasn’t too bad. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then it was two years later, and it was just a little bit worse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“They were a warning to keep you safe. There’s worse things than hags out there.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But it gave him a very bad feeling. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He hates it when people threaten Annabeth, but I couldn’t believe he was being so brave, especially since he’d had such a bad experience with a Sphinx before. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The bad news was, my brother did not want me around—not me, nor anyone in the family. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of all the weather it creates, the weather the Antarctic creates for itself is by far the worst. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The conditions in which they are kept are often so bad that many of these animals die. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I want to push the drink away, but I cannot show bad manners. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I run to the phone and grab it because I hate shouting even worse than the phone. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make things even worse, he encourages people who may know something about the event to come forward and speak with the administration—and says that your identity will be protected if you do. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Honestly, talking to him is worse than not. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

But had she done anything worse than what Kaede had also done, using Pol’s bow? Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There’s some satisfaction in that, more in worse things. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mama says you can’t hardly even call it a sin when they need ever little thing as bad as they do. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been boar’s head and venison and pork and beef and mutton and capons—but no turkey, because this bird bad not yet been invented. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cleaning and weeding was done as many as three times while the cane grew, and it was some of the worst labor. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Without so much as turning his head, Javier said, “I’m glad I don’t go to your school, then,” which made Moss think, That’s too bad. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But look, Francie: A kid wins it. All the kids expect to win then, see? It’s a bad example.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d better ask about their boiler, too, or the jurors aren’t going to make it. They didn’t fare well last night, recollect, and with the power out things will be worse.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At worst, unrestrained, a matching set of sharpened kitchen knives would be drawn across her optic nerve, and then again, with a greater downward pressure, and she would be entirely shut in and alone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Egyptian civilization’s lack of zero was bad for the calendar and bad for the future of Western mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“A friend of mine is in a bad way.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Angry the worse for not daring to show it to the robots that, one by one, were entering the room and then leaving. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Three times bad. I got three wound stripes. See?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even worse, it focused on the angle she most wanted to avoid—the fact that she had cracked Chinese codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Visiting valets, I have found, are often the worst offenders, aspiring as they usually do to the position of butler with some urgency. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They smelled so bad it was all we could stand to get them out, and that finished us all for that Halloween. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been kidnapped, but nothing bad had happened, and now it was almost over. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Ben said, “Do you want the good news first or the bad news?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Despite the sputtering light, it was a dim and smoky place that reeked of bad ale, stale bread, and sour wine. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, by the end of 1871 fourteen out of fifteen state suffrage groups had left the National and joined the American Woman Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The rest of the day ended up being pretty much as bad as the beginning of the day. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Chokecherry’s too boring for a big thing—even a bad big thing.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

"More's the pity. It's swads like him give us rivermen a bad name." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The last moment in her complete life was going to be the worst by far. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Talking to herself didn’t seem like such a bad idea there in the outer ruins, where the relics of the Rusties struggled against the grip of creeping plants. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The teachers in his new year were even worse because they only knew him in terms of his mum and not who he was before. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn’t know what I was aware of. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he's the mailroom manager there and says the work isn't so bad, but once in a while people blame you for stuff that isn't your fault. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“And no idea what really happened? I appreciate what you’re saying, Piper. I don’t want the Romans on our bad side, but until we understand what Gaea’s up to, going back is suicide.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, after an “incident,” people seemed to be pretty worked up and things got even worse than before. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rainie had been so dazed when he got home, they couldn’t make out what he was trying to tell them, but they knew it must have been something bad. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a lot worse out there,” Taylor said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He handed out his bad news to someone else. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I was at sixty-three and still had about a minute to go, which, if you ask me, isn’t bad. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the worst moments, they wrestled and threw punches. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Okay, that sounds dumb, but still, it’s so obvious to me that meeting up is a bad idea. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The heat is horrible, but worse than the heat is the smoke, which threatens to suffocate me at any moment. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I think they make those things so uncomfortable just to remind you there could always be something worse than a seat on an airplane, or an eternity in hell. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Get those bad thoughts out of your head,” he told her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I even worried, for a second, that something bad might’ve happened. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I say, “How bad is the storm going to be?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

His cell smelled so bad that guards refused to step inside. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But you couldn't enjoy the fact that he was in a good mood, because it was the kind of good mood that was just on the edge of a bad one. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Marina had made the fatal mistake of continuing to fly into bad weather. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As the fighting in the south grew worse and more villages were attacked, more and more people joined us, including elders who tried to keep everybody in line. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He puts it on backward and folds his arms like a bad rapper. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She's okay for a principal, but for some reason I still can't make her understand that it's not me who had a really bad Friday the Thirteenth. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had five children to look after, three of her own and two by her husband’s first wife, and to make matters worse, she herself was expecting another baby in two months’ time. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies. A bad end comes to a person who pries.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Arman—the pinched grandfather I told you about from the picture—her husband, was a bad husband, who was known as “the Governor,” and governed mostly a bunch of affairs with other women. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s a bad sign,” said Scythe Hideyoshi, “when our young hopefuls gravitate so openly to the enemy.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"No. Let's follow him instead. His wife might be in a bad mood after losing the argument." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Doc told of how Bigger had cut the cloth of his pool table and said that Bigger was “mean and bad, but sane.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How bad both our girls are at catching!” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a bad job overall, and I suppose I should have been sad to see it go. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Tariq liked to think himself a wordsmith, so it all got worse after they started hanging around. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She started unzipping zippers and digging through pockets, pausing only to tell me how bad I looked and how she had something that would make me feel better. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I mean, my dad used to say that head wounds look worse than they actually are, but I legitimately thought you were a corpse.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The weather had taken a change for the worse; a south-westerly wind had sprung up, the sky was cloudy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The worst part is that she almost lived, you know? She died weeks away from liberation.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“People are just scared and do bad things. Sometimes people hurt each other trying to figure things out.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I better count on bad then. Somebody got to.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Things must have been even worse for her. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You are prepared for the worst, I see—and very bad it is. Harriet Smith marries Robert Martin.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z