How to Use underachiever in a Sentence

underachiever

noun

• Is the fastest on dirt; might be an underachiever though; tough to trust.
  — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• An underachiever who would very much like to be left alone.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2021
• And yes, count the United States squarely among the underachievers – this year at least.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
• Coates, once a brilliant underachiever, used his first book to hone the craft of putting the lives of black folks into context.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2018
• Davis can’t stand that his team is viewed as underachievers.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2017
• The other names of the decade, however, are a who’s who of underachievers and busts, like Swift and Milicic.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2019
• The Browns don’t need to dynamite the roster of last year’s 6-10 underachievers.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2020
• Both starting goalies have been underachievers thus far, but Holtby is in the better form of late and will backstop the Caps to a home win.
  — Chris Wassel, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 29 Nov. 2019
• Arizona State is an underachiever, and the sooner Herm Edwards gets the gate, the better.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 5 July 2022
• Enjoy the hard choices, embrace the chaos, and let go of the underachievers that have been weighing down your roster.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• Jeff, too, is dragged down that path, transforming from a sweet underachiever (who once had scurvy) to a vengeful husk — and then back again.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• The Sox are one of baseball biggest underachievers this season, mired in third place and on pace to win 86 games — 22 fewer than last season.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
• If there has ever been a massive underachiever, USC is it.
  — oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2021
• Texas — Finds itself on a list of the biggest underachievers in college football.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• Lawrence’s Maddie is an underachiever who grew up in Montauk, the picturesque sea village at the tip of Long Island, and never left.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 June 2023
• Among those drafted and developed by the Rangers, there had been Martín Pérez, who at the time was labeled an underachiever, and everybody else.
  — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
• In this interpretation, Wenwu looms as the big bad tiger dad to Shang-Chi, the gifted underachiever who’s gone West and gone soft.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2021
• How can a player who has started every game that he's played in the NFL be considered an underachiever?
  — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 16 July 2017
• Norman Oppenheimer is a late-in-life underachiever who will not give up.
  — Colin Covert, star-telegram.com, 4 May 2017
• Still, the Yankees’ offense needs to step up after injuries and underachievers also plagued the lineup in 2023.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
• Having recorded 19 tackles for loss and 10 sacks in two seasons, Williams was no underachiever for the Bulldogs.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2021
• France was trying to shed its label as underachievers here.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 28 June 2019
• The only thing that is certain is that the Celtics, until proven otherwise, are front-runners and underachievers.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• Don't try this at home, people, but Pitt pulls off the middle-age underachiever look perfectly.
  — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 12 July 2019
• Knight is 100 percent correct that the grapefruit is the underachiever of the citrus family.
  — EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
• The quick version of what happened is this: ASU was a constant underachiever in basketball.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2021
• BBrown doesn't praise a QB who is an immature underachiever.
  — Nathaniel Cline, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• Rivers takes over a team that finished a disappointing 43-30 in the Eastern Conference, lost to the Boston Celtics in the first round of the playoffs and has been labeled an underachiever.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
• But before this, he was known as a chronic playoff underachiever.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2021
• With 12 matches remaining, the perennial underachievers look likely to lose the 'Neverkusen' tag and finally lift the German top flight crown for the first time in their history come May.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024