Example sentences for: underdog

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

  • The elite pedigrees of Bush and Gore make them vulnerable to a populist underdog.

  • A NYT front-pager calls Bill Bradley a canny underdog in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.

  • As a new American citizen, Evans seems proud to use language that few British readers will understand, as in this explanation of why Bradley relishes his underdog status: "He has happy memories of those electric nights with the Knicks when he caught the opposition napping with a last-second slam dunk."

  • The AMA ducked this critique by casting itself not as a business group but as an underdog alliance of working folks.

  • Most pundits think Al Gore is becoming desperate, and some say he's now the underdog.


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