Having a bad spell

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Sometimes when he was having a bad spell with his head he would check himself into the Blue Hill Hospital for two or three days, until he felt better.

"We're having a bad spell at the moment, but we have to toughen up and don't feel sorry for ourselves and keep on playing.

When you hit 30 and you're having a bad spell everyone says it's because you're 30 or 31 and things might be over for you".

"We have had a bad spell but we are still very close to the top four.

If I had a bad spell, Liverpool could easily have moved on.

If you play really well the first six games, does that mean you are going to have a bad spell?

You know what we're like in this country - we'll build him up, build him up and then if he has a bad spell of three games we'll be saying, 'he's no Ronaldo, he's no Messi' when no-one ever really should have said it in the first place.

She had a bad spell when she three-putted on No. 8 for a bogey; put her ball behind a tree and escaped with a par on No. 9; and failed to reach the green on No. 10, taking another bogey.

Voigt said: "I went off a little too fast at the start and I had a bad spell after the halfway mark, but the support of the crowd and knowing that this was my last race meant that I could finish strongly.

And there, on my five-year-old goddaughter's bedside table, was the empurpled first volume (for Mildred also Strikes Again, Saves the Day, has A Bad Spell and finds herself All At Sea) of the well-intentioned pupil's escapades.

I know when I had a bad spell I wanted to play through it.