Example sentences for: underscores

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

  • His story underscores the international role of textiles and apparel, their impetus in national economic development, and their place in conflicts over domestic production and imports—a theme that recurs throughout U.S. history.

  • Reasons to be pleased: 1) this comes on the heels of an economic expansion, not a recession, as previous large gains have; and 2) it underscores the revolutionary potential of new technologies.

  • The rabbit gene encodes a sodium-independent anion exchanger; this underscores the importance of not assigning functions to NBC-like genes in the absence of experimental evidence.

  • But even if Americans are no lazier in the aggregate than they were 40 years ago, the rise of "extreme sports" underscores a trend that's a bit different and more interesting than the one Time is promoting: Namely, that a small elite is engaging in pathologically daring leisure activities requiring unprecedented physical fitness, while the rest of us are getting fat on chips and beer while we watch these gladiators on ESPN.

  • NYT columnist A. M. Rosenthal--the paper's former South Asia correspondent--argues that the coup underscores the poverty of America's policy in the region, which has long favored the efficient Pakistan to the chaotic, but truly democratic, India.


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