Sentence examples for fought badly from inspiring English sources

We picked the wrong side (the French), and then we fought badly, and then we fought a bit better, but not well enough to win.

Wrong fights, or right fights fought badly, can distort a noble purpose into a massive failure, with lots of innocent blood being shed along the way.

The other Greeks fighting for the Persians had deliberately fought badly, according to Herodotus.

Individuals from different social groups are thrown together and fight badly, raking each other with their teeth.

Chosen while in his 30s to lead the Conservative Party in opposition to Tony Blair, he fought (and badly lost) the 2001 general election wrapped in the flag, vowing to resist European integration and curb immigration.

On 17 October, Montgomery informed Alan Brooke Chief of the Imperial General Staff that he felt the Polish forces had "fought very badly" at Arnhem and that he did not want them under his command.

I spent three months working with them, trying to invent the way my character would fight – and fight badly, because he doesn't really know how to.

According to Herodotus, Themistocles left messages at every place where the Persian fleet might stop for drinking water, asking the Ionians in the Persian fleet to defect, or at least fight badly.

"Anger is an honest emotion when someone's family has been violated". Schroeder and Palmer blamed Bush for a war poorly chosen and badly fought.

There is little question that Jonathan, who is facing public disapproval over charges of inefficiency, corruption, and a badly fought war against Boko Haram Islamists waging a terror campaign in the north, seized the legislation as a popular, unifying distraction.

Whether we leave in six months or six years, we will leave ignominiously and in defeat -- and with Iraq in shambles -- not only because the war has been badly fought but also because it was a hopelessly flawed venture from the beginning.