Examples of “adverse” in a Sentence

adj Unfavorable or harmful; working against someone's interests.

• Farmers faced adverse conditions after the long, cold winter damaged the crops.
• He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer. — Steven Morris, Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave (2011)
• Northbound expresses have the hardest work to perform, with adverse grades predominating from Willesden to Tring. — R. C. Riley, The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future (1960)
• The medication can cause adverse side effects in some patients.
• Adverse weather conditions delayed the flight for hours.