bad patch

Example Sentences

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The team has hit a bad patch of form — winless in six games — but has a strong track record in recent major tournaments.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2022

Very loud when they are winning but when the club goes through a bad patch they soon turn.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2022

Sometimes the grown Li’l Bit needs to pause and steel herself before reenacting a bad patch.

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2018

Seriously, it made me feel human, even though I was going through a bad patch.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2017

But never till now had they been cooped up together in an English country-house in the middle of a bad patch of English summer weather.

From Three Men and a Maid by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)