Sentence examples for symbol of bad from inspiring English sources
To Rosie, the Alamo is a symbol of bad times.
"[A] lone woman," she later wrote, "is an embarrassment to a boatload of men, a very symbol of bad and leery luck to sailors".
"Imaginary Weapons" wants to make the hafnium bomb a symbol of bad weapons science masquerading as good old American know-how at the Pentagon.
Long dismissed as a symbol of bad taste, the pinkie ring, with its associations to cheese balls and Joe Pesci, seemed too felonious to overlook.
"I'm in this race because I think it's time we start investing in the United States of America again," he told the Hamden crowd, alluding to the war in Iraq as a symbol of "bad choices".
The common blackbird, unlike many black creatures, is not normally seen as a symbol of bad luck, but R. S. Thomas wrote that there is "a suggestion of dark Places about it", and it symbolised resignation in the 17th century tragic play The Duchess of Malfi; an alternate connotation is vigilance, the bird's clear cry warning of danger.
Elsewhere came more time-honoured symbols of bad taste: sequined cummerbunds, Lurex, a cartoonish giraffe face printed onto a pristine white trouser suit, and the blocking of jarring 1970s colours that has been seen here and elsewhere this season.
By 2014, the country's leading oncological centre, the Cancer Institute, had become a post-revolution symbol of how bad things had got, with its doctors in open revolt against its management.
MEXICO CITY — The Obama administration has pulled the plug on an electronic billboard outside the American diplomatic mission in Havana that was used to tweak the Cuban government with pro-democracy messages and became a symbol of the bad blood between the two countries.
Now the site, along with several government buildings around it have been left in a perpetual state of despair, an unfortunate symbol of how bad things have gotten here.
Just a few miles north of the housing market's ground zero, a Lady Gaga fan with sweeping bangs, a bright smile, and homework on the docket is the latest symbol of how bad things have gotten in the Southwest Florida foreclosure landscape -- or how alive is the spirit of ingenuity.
