Sentence examples for lousy sentences from inspiring English sources

A nice scene in which Sam gingerly tests the toxicity of texts left in his office will resonate with creative writing teachers or anyone who has to read lousy sentences for a living: "Perhaps my predecessor enjoyed sending obviously fatal scripts to the testing ground.

It's mean, and it's a lousy sentence.

YOU can't blame Elizabeth Wurtzel ("Prozac Nation") or Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation") for creating what became the mother of all headline clichés in 2003, any more than you can blame Saddam Hussein or Sebastian Junger for the perfect storm of hackneyed metaphors in this lousy opening sentence.

This was mainly in reference to a commercial from Johnson's reelection campaign, featuring Johnson saying that a felon in New Mexico would serve "every lousy second" of their prison sentence.

When he returns at the second-act get-go, he spouts a sentence with which on-lookers might be inclined to agree -- "This stage is lousy with ghosts!" (You can say that again).

It's the most disturbing sentence in the book, and it leaves me hoping that Van Gaal isn't feeling too lousy.

"It's lousy, lousy, lousy," Pucher said.

"Lousy prom".

Lousy orphans.

Lousy house".

Lousy ending.