Example sentences for: underdog

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

  • Bauer couldn't claim to be more strapped than Dole, so he claimed underdog status on the basis of low name recognition, inexperience, and working-class heritage.

  • I put $75 on the New England Patriots as a 2.5-point underdog and $50 on a Boston Red Sox playoff game against the Cleveland Indians.

  • The figure of el pelado (the clown) distinctly exemplifies the rascuache outlook, the underdog figure, who is both victim and hero at the same time, a Cantinflas archetype.

  • Underdog Republican presidential candidates are seizing it as their chance for a breakthrough.

  • The article credits the Democratic underdog with: the 1986 Tax Reform Act, prescience regarding the American high-tech boom, earnestness, an "active social conscience," and "political individuality."


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