How to Use underdog in a Sentence

underdog

noun

• I always root for the underdog instead of the favorite.
• As a lawyer, she consistently represented the underdog.
• In a two-way race, the math just doesn’t work for the underdogs.
  — TIME, 16 Jan. 2024
• That’s time to put in trick plays, get healthy and play the underdog card.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• This underdog story takes a dark turn and the pals turn foes.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
• But one thing is certain: the underdogs will be a tough out.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
• As the pressure piled up, so did the dot balls and suddenly the underdogs were well in the game.
  — Thomas Schlachter, CNN, 12 June 2024
• This is the level up, from being an underdog to the big dog.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2024
• Yes, underdogs can win this game because there’s so much emotion on the field and in the stands.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• The following three games, on the other hand, could see the Knicks as underdogs on the road.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
• State of play: Detroit (86-76) will once again be the underdog.
  — Joe Guillen, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
• The Bears are the the underdog in the division at sports books with the other three teams favored to make the playoffs.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
• Few things give an underdog the spark that turnovers do.
  — Corey Smith, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Utah is to be an underdog (-130) to keep their All-Star center.
  — cleveland, 16 June 2022
• That rematch is one of the marquee races of the year, though Ms. Abrams is going into the fall as the underdog.
  — Miguel Gonzalez, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2022
• But 15 years ago, Marvel was an underdog with a lot to prove.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2022
• New Zealand has one match left in group play, and will be an underdog vs. France.
  — NBC News, 28 July 2024
• The Celtics, who’ll enter tonight’s game as 1-point underdogs, haven’t lost a game on the road since the playoffs began.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 14 June 2024
• This is the second time this season for the Horned Frogs to be rated as an underdog.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 10 Nov. 2022
• The spread settled with SMU being a 15.5-point underdog by the time tipoff happened.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
• The Bengals seem to enter every matchup against the Chiefs and Bills as an underdog.
  — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 30 Dec. 2022
• The Bears have won two of their last three games while emerging as an underdog story.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• The Rebels, of course, are huge underdogs against Michigan, who are opening the 2023 season with four home games.
  — Kevin Skiver, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023
• But in each scenario, the underdog still has a respectable chance — at least 1-in-5 — of winning.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023
• Does that make the underdog more dangerous, or put the favorite at ease?
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
• Just like in the past two years, Utah will be an underdog, but still have a significant chance at the top spot.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2023
• By the end of this year’s run, most of the country was rooting for them—as underdogs among underdogs.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
• While indeed not the fattest bear, 901 is an underdog of sorts.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Oct. 2022
• Biden’s self-mythology took shape around the figure of the underdog.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• Prince William told the Telegraph in 2018 the origins of his Aston Villa fandom — and how it was born from a desire to root for the underdog.
  — Rachel Burchfield, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024