Sentence examples for bad lot from inspiring English sources

"Human beings are just a bad lot.

These guys are making the best of a bad lot.

Are "bad lot" families always a bad lot who repeat their mistakes, down through the generations?

(That's called making the best of a bad lot).

He seems like the least bad of a bad lot".

"Of all the bad lot," the killer said, Guzman "seems to be the least bad".

"They're good, solid people who have been dealt a bad lot".

Everybody knew the McKechnies, and most people knew they were a bad lot.

The superpowers came to it by default, as the best of a bad lot of choices.

"It used to be really bad — lot of drugs, lot of murders, lot of crime," he said.

In other words, Mr Susilo is not so much the dream candidate as the best of a bad lot.