Example sentences for: undermine

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

  • The liberal Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz strongly criticized the United States Monday for its failure to get tough with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "Washington's unwillingness to demand that Israel uphold the commitments it undertook in the Oslo and Hebron accords is now threatening to undermine the most vital system of checks and balances in the diplomatic arena."

  • He said the United States now says that its recent attempts at dialogue with Iran have "achieved nothing," and it has promised Israel that it will not defrost its relations with a country that is using terror to try to undermine the Middle East peace process.

  • The president's defenders portray Flytrap as a parable of how the law, misapplied, can undermine the president.

  • But her broad point that special breaks for things such as capital gains undermine the tax code's progressivity is true enough.

  • Meanwhile it has had a formal complaint filed against it by the National Labor Relations Board for firing 20 employees who were trying to organize a union, creating an in-house union to undermine those organizing efforts, and coercing workers into participating in an anti-union rally.


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