Example sentences for: botched

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

  • Rosemary Clooney, revisiting "Mambo Italiano" for a recent autobiographical album, explains in the liner notes how much she loathes all her early hits--"Come On-a My House" (Armenian novelty song), "Who Don Mon Man" (calypso novelty song), "Botch-a Me" (botched novelty song).

  • Reporters' appetites have been whetted by 1) ever-louder grumbling among House Republicans that the GOP leadership botched the fight with Clinton on disaster relief and the budget; 2) an anonymous "Dear Colleague" letter urging a no-confidence vote on Gingrich; 3) a demand by 50 House conservatives (on Gingrich's birthday) that the Republican caucus halt the leadership's drift to the center; and 4) House Majority Leader Dick Armey's failure to defend Gingrich.

  • The investigative commission headed by former Chief Justice Lawrence Poitras was set up in 1996 to look into allegations of cover-ups and threats after a botched drug investigation.

  • In the 1960s, the CIA suffered exposure of its botched effort to land Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs.

  • But the district attorney's office has botched the case by cooperating with the parents' attorneys, so it's unlikely that charges will ever be filed.


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