Sentence examples for serve badly from inspiring English sources

If you lose your serve on clay, there's a good chance you'll get it back because of the slow surface - but serve badly on grass and it puts huge pressure on your return game.

Better death than the dishonor of serving badly.

"I served badly at times when I needed to serve well," Stevenson said despite Hingis's compliment on her serves.

The one it serves well is keeping villains off the streets and the one it serves badly is making sure that they leave prison less likely to offend.

"The truth is we've been served badly, the American people, by the establishment in this country in both parties — let's be clear about it — in both parties.

Second, they fulfill needs that are served badly or not at all.

The exaggeration of differences with our neighbours continues to serve us badly.

And the Indy also weighed in with a leading article, "Addicted to ignorance on drug abuse", in which it contended that "our political classes" serve us badly in terms of drugs policy.

"It began because the old model — which faithfully and truly served our state in recent years, and didn't serve it badly, and which we all defended — it has exhausted itself," Mr. Medvedev said, adding that United Russia should take a leading role in proposing reforms.

However, she looked short of the quality needed to bridge the gap to the very top of the game as her serve misfired badly in the opening set.

This reflects some real changes in our foreign policy, a recognition of the fact that the kind of anti-Communism that has so long bee part of the official dogma has served us badly, and has served us badly in South Vietnam.