Sentence examples for resorting to bad from inspiring English sources

From carting our shopping home in trolleys to nicking bags, on social media there were some extraordinary - if thankfully isolated - examples of consumers resorting to bad behaviour in order to dodge the charge.

No one remembers the score, let alone how the teams played the game, they remember who won, even if it means giving in to greed and resorting to bad behavior.

Henman was so rattled that at one point, when Cyclops malfunctioned, he resorted to bad language when addressing the umpire.

As if invoking Satan weren't bad enough, Carson resorted to bad puns to sidestep his scientific ignorance: he went on to say that he was planning a book called "The Organ of Species," which he said would "talk about the organs of the body and how they completely refute evolution" — an amazing claim that would require a rewriting of most biology texts.

As if invoking Satan weren't bad enough, Carson resorted to bad puns to sidestep his scientific ignorance: he went on to say that he was planning a book called "The Organ of Species," which he said would "talk about the organs of the body and how they completely refute evolution"—an amazing claim that would require a rewriting of most biology texts.

Whether they do so within a query email, a pitch, or brief face-to-face encounter, novice screenwriters often resort to bad comedy -- much of which is at their own expense.

When it comes to explaining the mystery behind Harriet's disappearance and the big reveal about her family's secret, however, Mr. Larsson stumbles badly, resorting to every bad cliché from every bad serial-killer movie ever shown on late night TV — a pity since he's done such a credible job of showing how Blomkvist has been piecing together clues from police files, interviews and old photographs.

Here's a great way to get through New Years Day without resorting to watching bad football or toffee-nosed Mummers.

In these scenes Mr. Woo displays an ability to startle without resorting to the bad-taste horror-movie shock employed in "Private Ryan".

You know America is losing a war when its officials resort to bad metaphors to describe its progress and prospects.

For Marschz, life itself is theater, his own life especially, and he shamelessly resorts to every bad acting trick there is.