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    Use "poorly" in a sentence

    poorly example sentences

    poorly


    1. A lot of older people have poorly corrected vision


    2. They were poorly trained things that were hard to direct from the get-go


    3. To the naked eye, a human would think that Archimedes had built his ship poorly


    4. Had a nasty time last year – skin cancer – she had all sorts of therapy which made her pretty poorly, but it seems to have worked


    5. ‘I’m sorry to hear JJ’s poorly, though


    6. The desire for ‘just one more’ becomes a compulsion, and the more poorly nourished a person is the more susceptible he will be to sugar addiction


    7. The poorly formed dragons never saw them coming until it was too late


    8. Poorly trained, they were dropped on the planet two weeks later and told to fight or they would die horrible deaths


    9. Looks very poorly


    10. Choose to chant a wish instead of a wish-washy poorly

    11. Never really poorly,


    12. “Not only is this poorly crafted---note how the threads of the wraps bulge over the burrs left on the guide feet, and the gaps between reel seat, grip and hardware---now listen:” and he pulled on the rod to separate the two pieces which made not a sound at the parting


    13. As I said, this is a poorly crafted specimen


    14. ’ Jarvis said, noting James’s poorly concealed astonishment that he, a provincial copper, should know such a fact


    15. He intended to build a proper school house for the town in lieu of the poorly renovated burnt out building provisionally employed for the purpose


    16. The Indian Ocean is poorly covered


    17. Everywhere he looked he saw hundreds of men, all scruffy and poorly dressed


    18. reputation for wolves, thieves, and poorly marked paths,


    19. Walking the remaining blocks in silence, they at last made it to the end of the city and stood together before the wall of poorly laid stones that would serve as the initial layer of defense


    20. They were poorly clothed and

    21. What with that incredible Fizzicist and now a poorly speaking teacher, I really think Mrs


    22. But whoever held her bound, was also poorly trained, or simply not thorough


    23. The one who made it was indeed poorly trained, for he was just a child


    24. If you’ve fared poorly with


    25. poorly dressed because we had to flee suddenly from Jeremos’s attack in Ithaca


    26. First, those colonies, in preparing themselves for their non-importation agreement, drained Great Britain completely of all the commodities which were fit for their market ; secondly, the extra ordinary demand of the Spanish flota has, this year, drained Germany and the north of many commodities, linen in particular, which used to come into competition, even in the British market, with the manufactures of Great Britain; thirdly, the peace between Russia and Turkey has occasioned an extraordinary demand from the Turkey market, which, during the distress of the country, and while a Russian fleet was cruizing in the Archipelago, had been very poorly supplied ; fourthly, the demand of the north of Europe for the manufactures of Great Britain has been increasing from year to year, for some time past; and, fifthly, the late partition, and consequential pacification of Poland, by opening the market of that great country, have, this year, added an extraordinary demand from thence to the increasing demand of the north


    27. She’d not seen Auster at all in her travels, and she knew Mars thought poorly of Auster


    28. We both know how poorly your past decisions have reflected on your loyalty


    29. The compound itself was not particularly large, probably less than fifty metres across, roughly square, with poorly maintained prefab cabins in two of the corners


    30. The most opulent church in Christendom does not maintain better the uniformity of faith, the fervour of devotion, the spirit of order, regularity, and austere morals, in the great body of the people, than this very poorly endowed church of Scotland

    31. They were conversing very poorly in French and she couldn’t understand a word


    32. The honour of a state is surely very poorly provided for, when, in order to cover the disgrace of a real bankruptcy, it has recourse to a juggling trick of this kind, so easily seen through, and at the same time so extremely pernicious


    33. „The pages reek with your self-pity so poorly disguised as regret, with the phoniness of your self-condemnation, with that insidious quality of your contrition, which is that of a materialist who cares not for God and is therefore not contrition at all, but only despair for the consequences of your actions


    34. Monique found herself in a poorly lit tunnel, which seemed to stretch into infinity, with no side doors in sight


    35. Many regions, which had previously been considered uninhabitable, held dwellings in poorly functioning biospheres, never designed for the intense heat of North Africa or southern Asia, but based on lunar and Martian technology


    36. “What would you have had me do—leave it in our poorly protected rooms at the Inn?”


    37. Four bronze guns at El Sueno were poorly worked through lack of gunners, and the three guns at Fort Nuevo, which almost enfiladed Pearson's brigade on the left, fired few shots effectively


    38. finally went, that this bad man, vexed at having a pupil so poorly


    39. Cratchit, Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in


    40. Fidel Castro is coming to town! This poorly stylized villain, who for years has fed off the (romanticized) illusions conjured up by left-leaning individuals, will undoubtedly receive a warm reception in some quarters by disaffected groups whose alienated affections for this great nation have grown naturally disposed toward honoring every ideological enemy of America as some visionary liberator in their incorrectly perceived fight for ―freedom

    41. Poorly written applications, improper shutdowns, and freeze-ups often leave temp files behind


    42. Do you wish for me to endure a thousand years year of extreme boredom while I wait for the convicted criminals and terrorists to escape from hell so that we can kill them again once and for all at Armageddon? Why not just kill them now properly and get done? I think the system in heaven is ineffective and the known intelligence is poorly utilized


    43. Claims that the media is mostly liberal are based on poorly done studies that only survey small parts of the media, such as the press corps that covers the White House


    44. The dictator who was supposedly another Hitler turned out to be poorly armed and could not survive even a month against the US


    45. “All of our leaders are absolute cowards when it comes to anything that might reflect poorly on the city


    46. Poorly disciplined, they looted and burned York, Ontario


    47. It was a poorly lit, cheap, grungy and reeked of stale beer and dirty ashtrays


    48. The mechanism is, of yet, very poorly understood


    49. He found a series of poorly planned programs and streamlined them into one far deadlier, and somewhat more efficient


    50. Next election the Republican Party did poorly in Minnesota














































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    Synonyms for "poorly"

    ailing indisposed peaked poorly seedy sickly under the weather unwell badly ill sick weak languishing inadequately crudely

    "poorly" definitions

    somewhat ill or prone to illness


    (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well