How To Use At the worst In A Sentence
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It is a popular belief that the worst horrors befall whoever invites the curse of a hijra.
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It was certainly an auspicious start, and most merchants are hopeful that the worst is behind them, and that there will be better days ahead.
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With many people admitting they only skim-read terms and conditions, discovering exclusions often comes at the worst possible moment.
The Sun
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A senior Army officer said that the ammunition crisis was "shambolic" and came at the worst possible time for the Army.
Boing Boing: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives
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Sometimes I just get random thoughts in my head, and these can happen at the worst possible times.
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There is a sense that the worst is over and there aren't any nasty surprises lurking around the corner.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fuel costs have added to concerns, but there are indications that the worst may be over for investors holding Ryanair shares.
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An equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, he is currently one of the most bullish of commentators, stating definitively that the worst is over.
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Although transportation, industry, and energy producers are obviously major fossil fuel users and greenhouse gas polluters, not enough people understand that the worst U.S. and global greenhouse gas emitter is "Food Incorporated," transnational industrial food and farming, of which Monsanto and GMOs constitute a major part.
Ronnie Cummins: Industrial Agriculture and Human Survival: The Road Beyond 10/10/10
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It looks like more than a sixmonth job after yet another wildly erratic performance which does little to convince you that the worst is over.
The Sun
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When this is grayed with age it is indeed of the effect of old silver work; but the plateresque in Valladolid does not suggest fragility or triviality; its grace is perhaps rather feminine than masculine; but at the worst it is only the ultimation of the decorative genius of the Gothic.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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They will lose at the worst only fifteen sheep.
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While the Spanish government is openly optimistic that the worst has passed, residents and environmentalists were not so sanguine.
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At the worst, that is, if she found I was not disposed to be as virtuous as herself, she knew she might play an aftergame; and could easily relax by degrees from the severity of her chastity, accordingly as I made it worth her while.
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
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Yet if republicans are tempted to think that the worst is now over, they are surely deceiving themselves.
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There is a sense that the worst is over and there aren't any nasty surprises lurking around the corner.
Times, Sunday Times
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You don't need to be a doomsdayer to know that the worst is yet to come.
Canada Free Press
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In the end, of course, it appears that the worst of all possible scenarios emerged.
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But a friend just told me that the worst toxins are something called dioxins, and there's nothing I can really do to avoid them.
Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Help! Am I Doomed By Dioxins?
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He would pause at the worst times, listening for something no one else could hear.
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I read my first chapter book, I learned to ride my bike without training wheels, and I figured out that the worst word in the world rhymes with ‘duck’.
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If he was able to slip out the back exit with a few of the temps and part-timers, he would hustle to his car, hoping to beat the worst of rush-hour traffic, for nothing maddened him like traffic jams, especially on his own time.
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Jade Goody – Jade Goody probably thought that the worst Big Brother could throw at her was some slaphead fellatio and a few people screaming "Burn the pig!" at her for a while.
Celebrity Big Brother Betting Odds: Jade Vs Shilpa – Final Showdown
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Is it not a fact that the worst brand of "fighting booze" is dispensed at the illicit doggery?
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
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The current cheer leading bysome economic leaders, that the worst is probably over, sounds vaguely hollow in light ofa Wall Streettop down stimulus package that left out Main Street consumers ~ who paid for this massive infusion ofcapital and who increasingly want their money back.
The Lull Before The Storm
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There was something ominous about it, and in intangible ways one was made to feel that the worst was about to come.
Chapter 17
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He's a generous, unselfish actor at the best of times and here, at the worst of times, he does not appear to mind having his scenes stolen by a rabbit and a bird.
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Knowing that the worst of my online oversharing is still publicly accessible doesn't thrill me, but it doesn't scare me anymore either.
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After some thought, I tried to epoxy the little piece that broke, although I doubted it would hold because the break was at the worst stress point.
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It looks like more than a sixmonth job after yet another wildly erratic performance which does little to convince you that the worst is over.
The Sun
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But officials are hoping that the worst of this new flooding is over.
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At the worst, they have an unfortunate impact on the local crime figures.
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Snapping drum, twinkling stars, woozy guitar, and woozier vocals wobble their way towards a yawning great black hole at the worst time.
Nothing But Green Lights
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Isn't it true that the worst thing you can do as a member of a street gang is be a snitch?
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But that was just it: his example made Christophe understand that the worst falsity in German art came into it not when the artists tried to express something which they had not felt, but rather when they tried to express the feelings which they did in fact feel -- _feelings which were false_.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
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Otherwise, I've found that the worst place I've seen for mosquitoes is San Miguel de Allende.
Biting insects
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My mother immediately knew that the worst had happened if her youngest child had not come home.
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Soldiers often say that the worst thing about fighting is not the moments of terror, but all the hours of tedium in between.
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But my heart was sore for the poor creature, and, in very truth, I bring back no light heart, save to see you twain again, for I fear me that the worst of the darg {30} is still to do.
A Monk of Fife
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The maitre d ' had tried to put me at the worst table in the house, next to the kitchen door.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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` ` There's a saying that the worst lead in hockey is a two-goal lead, and it proved to be right, '' Stillman said.
USATODAY.com
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You tell me this man you have here spent weeks and months wheedling needy women out of small sums of money; that he used a drug at the best, and a poison at the worst; that he turned up afterwards as the lowest kind of moneylender, and cheated most poor people in the same patient and pacific style.
The Complete Father Brown
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Yet, put simply, movie-makers have budgetary reasons for imagining that the worst will happen.
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At the worst, this difform liberty of presenting ourselves two several ways, the actions after one manner and the reasoning after another, may be allowed to those who only speak of things; but it cannot be allowed to those who speak of themselves, as I do: I must march my pen as I do my feet.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
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Sexual drive is at the root of humanity, and it is extremely resilient at the worst of times.
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ROMANS: Look at the worst jobs, roustabout, which is for a worst job, it has the best name.
CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2010
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Anybody who has some understanding of the animal kingdom will recognise that the worst thing a dog owner can do to a pet is overfeed it.
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This has led all the media cheerleaders to hope that the worst is over.
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The good news for investors who aren't in the top brackets is that the worst outcome is also the least likely: total expiration of the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.
Investment Taxes: Will They Sting?
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People working in hospitals have told me that the worst offenders for not washing their hands are the doctors.
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There is every sign that/All the signs are that the worst is over.
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And it had to go wrong at the worst possible moment, the mics going on the fritz during the big romantic finale of all places, in "Love Lost and Found.
Archive 2010-06-01
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Claude epitomises how disastrous it is for a lover to see the other side of the question, and to remind himself of the advantages of not being in love: "Yet, at the worst of the worst, books and a chamber remain", a line which is an eerie pre-echo of Larkin's renunciatory "Poetry of Departures": "Books; china; a life / Reprehensibly perfect.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
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But all the authorities are agreed that the worst aspects of crucifixion were the raging thirst and the excruciating cramps that racked the victim till he died.
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But what concerns me is her serve, specifically double faults at the worst time.
Times, Sunday Times
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This newfound power decreases the chances of Plummer throwing an interception at the goal line or fumbling the ball at the worst possible moment.
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I tend to take the more traditional view that the worst thing a military force can do is fail in its mission.
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Family obligations always did crop up at the worst of times, Kratos thought with a crinkle of his nose.
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The maitre d ' had tried to put me at the worst table in the house, next to the kitchen door.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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At the worst extreme, existing courses in standard topics are just relabeled with a hipper, architecture-oriented name.
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Moneyed big companies seem to almost thrive on residents' apathy and the sentiment that the worst is as good as done.
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Never overinflate or underinflate either—this can cause premature tire failure, usually at the worst time when you’re cruising down the freeway, fully loaded and probably overweight.
The RVer’s Bible
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It was beyond me to work out that the worst that could happen was she would say she wasn't interested.
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Many air bed pumps are not that well made and have a tendency to fail at the worst times.
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Analysts say there are six signs that the worst is over and that house prices are set to stabilise.
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To allow them in the nursery is at the best misleading and at the worst criminal.
Try Anything Twice
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We must act on the premise that the worst can happen.
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This model assumes that the welfare state can combat the worst injustice of modern capitalist societies.
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The advantage of fire drill thinking is that it reminds you that the worst really can happen.
