Example sentences for: botched

How can you use “botched” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Newspapers in both countries call the Indian government's response to the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814 "bungled and botched" (the Hindu of Madras) and a "startling muddle" ( Dawn of Pakistan).

  • Some critics charged that the lack of an indictment revealed that the police work was botched.

  • Israel botched an assassination attempt on a Hamas leader . According to various reports, Israel 1) infuriated Jordan by infiltrating that country and staging the attack there; 2) infuriated Canada and other countries by forging Canadian passports for the Israeli agents; 3) bungled the attack, leading to the agents' arrest; 4) was forced to release the founder of Hamas (who was serving a life sentence) and other Hamas prisoners from Israeli jails and to supply an antidote for the lethal nerve toxin used in the attack, in order to assuage Jordan's anger; and 5) aroused such fury at Israel and sympathy for Hamas that Yasser Arafat reportedly will have to release the Hamas prisoners he has rounded up and reopen Hamas institutions.

  • botched tongue-twisters: shallow and slipshod shatire; that disquieting condition called Kwok's Quease; the fire at the Tirestone fire tactory.

  • Berlaymont has been closed for nine years after an asbestos scare and a botched cleanup: European taxpayers have paid $50 million so far merely to keep the building closed, with air pumps running around the clock to prevent any fibers from wafting out.


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