Example sentences for: underlings

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

  • Just because it's unscientific doesn't mean it won't be empirical: Though Culturebox lacks a vast staff of underlings to read, watch, listen, and try on the latest size-2 fashions for her, she will rely on you, dear readers, for data.

  • Apparently Altman's the kind of publisher (no doubt he'd prefer to be called an investor , but anyway it's his investment company, Evercore Partners, that owns Weekly World News ) who drafts, or allows his underlings to draft, Bill Clinton as a pitchman for his tabloid--which this week includes the headlines, "Man Turns Into a Werewolf at Planetarium Lunar Show!"

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

  • Rubin's reticence, as well as his praise of underlings and colleagues, has earned him an enormous, though not fully deserved, reputation for humility.

  • (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.)


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