bad habit

Example Sentences

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Because this country has a bad habit of forgetting.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

Drug-trial results are driving share prices: For much of the past four years, biotech stocks had the bad habit of selling off even after the release of positive drug-trial data.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025

But having fuelled a bad habit in China, it now wants to promote a health food there, hoping in the process to acquire the status of Africa's blueberry capital.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025

And that collective bad habit isn’t just one that applies to young people, either.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2025

It is written that the old shall keep to the comfort of their beds! second priest: It’s a bad habit, beloved friend, this wandering about at night when monsters prowl. third priest: Senility.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner