How to Use go bad in a Sentence

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  • Yet these same wines can go bad rather quickly, taking on distinctly displeasing notes of rotten eggs or dirty socks.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024
  • There are welds and bolts that can all go bad over time.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Contact with air can make the fats in food go bad over time.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Things go bad in a hurry, and a lot of reporters on the Auburn beat still have the hats to prove it.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This is a pattern for Smart, boiling over when things go bad.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • And, keep in mind that flaxseed is a fresh food, and all fresh foods can eventually go bad.
    — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2024
  • This is the capital of the low-wage jobs, and when things go bad people just have no safety net.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • There are two ways your ground beef can go bad – bacteria or spoilage.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
  • For starters: Boxed wines stay fresh for up to six weeks, while an open bottle will go bad after one.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 July 2022
  • In times like these, even good people can end up in desperate straits when things go bad.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2023
  • These are common in body washes due to the high water content, which can cause products to go bad.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 June 2022
  • What's scary for people is not that things go bad and relationships ends.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Exits plans usually include when to get out if things go bad, if thing go well, or if things go okay.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Apparently teeth under bridges go bad all the time, for all kinds of reasons.
    — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2021
  • So how could this guy go bad on his planet, and is that possible on our possible?
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Now that the wheat harvest starts at the end of this month, more storage space is needed, and if more room isn’t made soon, a lot of grain could go bad while tens of millions starve around the world.
    — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • Banks can be forced to take losses if an economic downturn causes those loans to go bad.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
  • My parents, meanwhile, who grew up in times of war and scarcity, placed their trust in foods engineered to never go bad.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2022
  • Fuel and batteries can go bad over the colder months, and grass clippings left on or underneath the deck can cause rust.
    — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Rayner Loi keeps a note on his iPhone with details of the fruit and vegetables that go bad every week at his home in Singapore.
    — Amy Gunia, Time, 13 Oct. 2021
  • All these choices are very unpleasant when pension plans go bad.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Spills and spoiled food can leave behind mold spores or encourage the growth of bacteria, making other food go bad as well.
    — Washington Post, 26 July 2021
  • Rice varieties that have more fiber and oils, such as brown rice, go bad quicker (about 6 to 8 months) than white, jasmine, basmati, and arborio rice (about 4 years).
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Over time, foods that have been sitting in your fridge can go bad without necessarily posing a health threat.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 24 Jan. 2023
  • And yet flaws, too, are part of a soap opera’s contract with its viewer—the understanding that an onscreen product can go bad for a minute and then snap back into its sweet spot.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Things naturally go bad fast, and the show alternates between their current-day lives and their ordeal.
    — PCMAG, 4 Jan. 2022
  • When seemingly good wars go bad, Americans often conclude that those wars were pointless or corrupt from the get-go.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Reasons have expiration dates, and good reasons go bad.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • According to the report, even if a storage structure appears to be mostly intact, even minor damage can make crops go bad.
    — WIRED, 16 Sep. 2022
  • In Oregon, a vaccination team stranded on a snowbound highway went from car to car offering doses that would go bad in six hours.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2021

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