Sentence examples for badly applied from inspiring English sources
They soon had ruby-coloured stains around their mouths like badly applied lipstick.
Gold paint, badly applied Dutch gold leaf and other attempts at grandeur are usually failures.
Alan, in spite of his heavy beard, is almost literally a giant baby, his soft-bellied body appearing swaddled in a sheet and, most memorably, in a jockstrap that looks like a badly applied diaper.
Glitter nail polishes and gold lipstick might sound like the kind of thing experimented with on your first discovery of make-up, but put aside those ill-advised notions of badly applied gloss – molten cosmetics are having a moment.
Once the "artist" had finished, I left as quickly as I could, sporting a badly applied bandage covering what, even some 15 years later, some people still refer to as my "really crap tattoo", and running 45 minutes late for work.
By this logic not always wrong, by the way, but badly applied in the majority of cases if we wonder why humans seem so willing to accept mere symbols of value in executing their commerce, we should look for examples of symbolic exchange in nature, and then postulate a common source or cause.
A trump lead suggests that the side suits are breaking badly; apply this to your own leads, selecting a trump if you know the breaks are bad for declarer.
James Dettore, who founded Brand Institute, a Miami name-consulting firm, wanted to attend the Owner/Presidents Managementt program (a three-year exec ed course) so badly, he applied seven years running.
It is a theology that works fine when you are talking about God punishing Adolf Hitler or Osama bin Laden, but it stumbles badly when applied to tidal waves and dying babies.
She wants badly to apply pressure with her left hand, to bend open the hole.
Six of the 22, victims of their labor leader's failed negotiating strategy, have suffered so badly that they applied for financial help to the Baseball Assistance Team, an organization that assists former players and others who worked in baseball.
