Sentence examples for knowing bad from inspiring English sources

You cannot know good without knowing bad.

The paintings are in knowing bad taste.

Two principal reasons were highlighted by parents/guardians for not testing their children: (1) parents' concerns that their child's HIV-positive status would unmask their own and (2) a desire to protect children from stigmatising experiences and "knowing bad things".

We know what it feels like to have a pain in the pit of your belly, knowing something bad is about to happen but not being able to prevent it.

He apologized, knowing how bad his timing was.

Top executives usually stay out of the swap, knowing how bad it would look.

Most of the early cases were relatively mild, but there was no way of knowing how bad it might get.

Either way, this is a disservice to a nation with a strong public interest in knowing how bad this spill is.

And Mr Charlie knowing anything bad is double dangerous, as anyone with fingers standing near him when he's in a rage knows only too well.

They said the water had a good chance of coming in the house but, not really knowing how bad it would be, I kind of dismissed it and went back to bed.

Catherynne M. Valente unrolls string after string of "ands" — "doubloons and necklaces and crowns, pieces of eight and plates and bricks and long, glittering scepters"; "chanterelles and portobellos and oysters and wild crimson forest mushrooms"; "cobalt and ochre and silver and rose"; "gunk and crusty things and dirt and fear and knowing how bad things can get and what pain feels like".