Example sentences for: undercuts

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

  • But a "senior official" undercuts the sincerity of the new U.S. position when he tells the Times , "We cannot imagine, based on our analysis, that a genuinely free and fair election would allow Milosevic to remain as president."

  • Eliminating racial profiling will make policing more difficult, but the cost is worth bearing because profiling burdens targeted groups, engenders rage against the police, and undercuts the ideal of a colorblind society.

  • The ethos he describes in his heroes undercuts his case.

  • In a mock strategy memo published in Newsweek , former Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos asked her, "What if the president undercuts your most effective campaign issue by making a deal with Republicans on partial privatization of Social Security and tax cuts?

  • These are examples in which the wording undercuts itself, yet without any apparent sarcasm.


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