6 sentences with 'poorly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word poorly and other words derived from it.
• « All Church services were conducted in Latin, and yet some priests understood Latin only poorly, if at all (it had long since disappeared as a vernacular in Europe). »
• « The French forces were poorly led and could not cope with Prussian training and tactics, so the Prussians won every major engagement. »
• « In a poorly planned assault on the Gallipoli peninsula near Constantinople, hundreds of thousands of British imperial troops (including tens of thousands of Australians and New Zealanders recruited to fight for "their" empire from half a world away) were shot down by Turkish machine guns. »
• « In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria, an event known as the Anschluss. Although the German pseudo-invasion was poorly organised, most Austrians welcomed German tanks entering Austrian cities, and there was virtually no resistance. »
• « What was to become the most emblematic uprising against authority in the European youth movement began in a filthy Paris suburb called Nanterre. There, the newly opened and poorly designed university faced student protests over a policy that forbade male students from visiting women's dormitories. »
• « Although cetaceans have a poorly developed sense of sight, they are able to orient themselves by emitting acoustic waves that crash and bounce off coastal features. When the waves return to the animal, they inform it precisely about distances and sizes. »