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

They are working hard to ensure that they and others in town get through this bad patch, too.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2020

They didn’t exactly break up, but during the bad patch she moved to New York on her own for a while, to find herself.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2019

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

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2018

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)