Below you will find example sentences with "getting worse". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Getting Worse in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: worse
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "getting worse" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 26.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as just keeps getting worse and worse, all or getting worse, better, care and years stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with get worse, getting bigger, getting stuck, get worse and got worse, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with getting worse
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
It Just Keeps Getting Worse and Worse: Did You Catch the Latest Secret Service Revelation? (15 words)
The chances increase not because we are getting worse but because they are getting better. (15 words)
The private sector is getting worse and the civil service is getting better every day. (15 words)
But Mr Corbyn criticised a number of the proposals, saying mental health care was "getting worse and worse", social care proposals "offered the same promise after two years of inaction and failure", and plans for education were "shockingly weak". (39 words)
More than half of respondents believed that the direction of the U.S. economy is getting worse, while 27% believed it is staying the same and 22% believed it is getting better, according to the poll. (36 words)
As the maple products tasted better and better (the maple-accented beers at Ricker’s Orchards micro-brew facility in Turner are well worth stopping for) the rural roads were getting worse and worse. (34 words)
It Just Keeps Getting Worse and Worse: Did You Catch the Latest Secret Service Revelation? (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
My usage was gradual… What I did kept getting worse and worse, and I didn't care what anybody else thought about me," she admitted.
And it’s getting worse and worse,” Trump said, referring to a viral video that appeared to show an armed mob roaming around an apartment complex in Aurora.
It Just Keeps Getting Worse and Worse: Did You Catch the Latest Secret Service Revelation?
It's been going on for a long time and it's been getting worse and worse.
Loraine said: "I thought I'd just cricked my neck at first on the rollercoaster, but the pain just kept getting worse and worse and continued when we got back to England.
We are not going to have a “second wave” — our continuing “first wave” is just going to keep getting worse and worse.
As the maple products tasted better and better (the maple-accented beers at Ricker’s Orchards micro-brew facility in Turner are well worth stopping for) the rural roads were getting worse and worse.
But Mr Corbyn criticised a number of the proposals, saying mental health care was "getting worse and worse", social care proposals "offered the same promise after two years of inaction and failure", and plans for education were "shockingly weak".
Right now, every other member of the Kardashian family aside from Khloe have also unfollowed the trouble NBA star and it seems like the whole situation just keeps getting worse and worse.
More than half of respondents believed that the direction of the U.S. economy is getting worse, while 27% believed it is staying the same and 22% believed it is getting better, according to the poll.
The only problem - I was dealing with a neck issue which was getting worse, I’d spent a couple of years fighting it off, I was getting tingling.
As their health continues to deteriorate without any sign or an iota of getting better, it is apposite to firmly state that Buhari is responsible for its getting worse.
But after an offseason that has been panned as anything from “too cute” to “bizarre,” the Packers are flouting a respected NFL cliche — if you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse.
The chances increase not because we are getting worse but because they are getting better.
But experts fear the things will start getting worse in case of heavy rain with many areas getting swamped with rainwater like previous years due to poor drainage system and unplanned city development works.
The private sector is getting worse and the civil service is getting better every day.
In this sense it could be said that the pessimist views history as ironic; while seemingly getting better, it is mostly in fact not improving at all, or getting worse.
Although there is no known cure for arthritis, there are ways to ease and even potentially prevent symptoms getting worse.
And the problem is getting worse as bacteria evolve and develop resistance to more and more classes of antibiotics.
A source said doctors suspect 'there has been an underlying issue for a while that has been getting worse'.