Sentence examples for lousy turn from inspiring English sources

Need to bold a particularly thoughtful passage, or point out a lousy turn of phrase with some red ink?

Granted, I'd wager that the number of people who faithfully stick to their multi-year wireless contracts far exceeds the number of people who would unlock their phones and bail, but this is still a damned lousy turn of events for all you proponents of phone freedom out there (myself included).

It's a lousy idea to turn the victims of 9/11 into martyrs and just as lousy to turn Ground Zero into a glorified cemetery.

And there is always room for those no-good fortune tellers who unexpectedly make lousy prophecies that turn out to be true – see, for example, Professor Trelawney in Harry Potter.

A lousy launch can turn a $1 billion car into a flop.

Or work to turn lousy jobs into good ones?

That "lousy swabbie," who turned out not lousy after all, laughed and came back with his own joke.

Nevertheless, "blip" is the alternative "b" word he prefers, as in "So the market, as you know, turns lousy and I have this blip".

"If you're vertically integrated and business turns lousy, you take a rap at each level due to unused capacity -in warehousing, transportation, crushing, selling," said Richard L. Pennell, a former Cargill official who is executive vice president of the National Grain and Feed Association.

This is the original part of the inn: more turf fires, a black range, time-worn wooden chairs, the sort of place which turns lousy weather (or a sore throat) into an excuse to settle in for the duration.

The real estate currents are moving faster than ever, but the long wave of island culture and development seems less pressing than the short ones of the surf — kind of lousy yesterday, it turned out — or the tides of family life.