Example sentences for: underdogs

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

  • It's easy to think of the people who run software companies other than Microsoft as underdogs fighting Big Bad Bill.

  • The great mass of proverbs, though, are for the lips of the governed, those proverbial underdogs.

  • The Cinderella teams--Gonzaga, Southwest Missouri State, and Miami of Ohio--were wiped out in the last two rounds, leaving no true underdogs.

  • The first of his biweekly columns for the Guardian on the presidential election campaign is about the battle between Al Gore and Bill Bradley for the Democratic nomination and how they are both currently campaigning as underdogs.

  • In an editorial about an antitrust challenge to the U.S. genetically modified food industry by farmers and pressure groups alleging misuse of intellectual property to restrict competition, the Financial Times took the side of the underdogs.


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