Sentence examples for things as bad from inspiring English sources

Are things as bad as he says?

"I've never seen things as bad as this," he said.

"We've never seen things as bad as they are now," Mr. Elcheikh said.

Which is why I am trying to make things as bad as possible.

But I wonder: Are things as bad as they will seem in two months, or as rosy as they looked two weeks ago?

As a cab driver of 14 years I can honestly say I have never seen things as bad as they are now.

Things look as bad as they did in 1997.

But, are things really as bad as depicted?

"Things are as bad as they can be," he said.

Things are "as bad as they were in 1992".

Talk about good things as well as bad.