Example sentences for: underlings

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

  • (Gingrich even warned his GOP underlings to keep quiet.)

  • She tyrannized her co-workers, throwing fits, firing writers at will, terrorizing her underlings ( Roseanne is notorious as the worst workplace in television).

  • The hero, Peter (Ron Livingston), an engineer at a generic software company, is suffocating under his boss, Lunbergh (Gary Cole), a dictator who punishes underlings from behind a strenuously mellow affect--each demand or rebuke prefaced by a seemingly upbeat "Yyyyeah."

  • (Could be worse for the assistant: She could be forced to pick up her boss's birth-control pills, or her boss's pet from the vet, or presents for her boss's children--regular duties for Condé Nast underlings.)

  • , as a monster who terrorizes her Wall Street Journal underlings.


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