How to Use underling in a Sentence

underling

noun

• He takes all the credit, but most of the hard work is done by his underlings.
• Almost one year ago, the same court sentenced Eyad Gharib, an underling of Raslan, to four and a half years in prison.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• All of these factors were present in Hillary Clinton’s case (and that of her underlings).
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018
• The problem with canning the coach is the McCaskeys and their underlings will then have to hire someone new.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• And the spin that attempts to lay blame on Trump underlings is comical.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 27 July 2017
• Michaels was walking by with a group of his underlings and spotted Hammond and stopped.
  — Geoff Edgers, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• To this end, they’re ruled by a squat, green Deviant named Tode, who commands an underling named Kro.
  — Nola Pfau, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2022
• None of his underlings spent time in jail for killing protesters.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• In this part of the world, the heavy hitters show up for meetings with large retinues of underlings, and all of them have to have a seat at the table, so the tables go on for miles.
  — Neal Stephenson, WIRED, 1 Feb. 1994
• The FBI director assumed he was being pranked by his underlings — and had to be told by his team that the headlines were no joke.
  — Ashley Parker, Washington Post, 29 May 2017
• The FBI director assumed he was being pranked by his underlings - and had to be told by his team that the headlines were no joke.
  — Ashley Parker, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017
• Several of his underlings are in graves, and the majority of the others are in cells.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 30 Apr. 2024
• When investment bankers or clients want something done, staffers find underlings for the drudgery.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024
• These found widespread malfeasance by his underlings, who engaged in the kind of blatant graft that would have made Boss Tweed proud.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
• But there’s a muddiness to some of the stage business, such as the bumbling of the Little Robber Girl’s bandit underlings.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2019
• Does an underling impress when standing in for their boss?
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Trump berates underlings over Twitter; de Blasio, at least, has the courtesy to do so over email.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
• Sure, there’s ample humor in the show, about a countess smitten with an underling.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2020
• The alpha male and female are the only pack members whose pups survive to adulthood, and underlings feed and babysit the leaders’ pups.
  — Traci Watson, National Geographic, 5 Sep. 2017
• Juries don’t like to see a kingpin get a sweet deal and then testify against a few lackeys or underlings.
  — Danny Cevallos /, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2018
• Find him, Derek commands a doomed underling, Garnett (David Witts).
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• Alone, in the Oval Office, what any president says to an underling is very rarely a suggestion.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 June 2017
• But even the wisest of presidents need underlings who can disagree with them.
  — Gary J. Bass, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2017
• Those are the key elements of an actual deal, and they have been left for the underlings to resolve going forward.
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 12 June 2018
• The 49-year-old scion has a formidable partner in Shankar, a former underling at Fox.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• Instead, the leaders of Facebook, Twitter, and Google sent their underlings.
  — Nick Bilton, The Hive, 2 Nov. 2017
• One underling in his party became convinced that a member of the Beard group was staring at his girlfriend.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
• Middle managers have to switch between being the boss and being an underling.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
• Bobby Petrino had an affair with an underling at Arkansas and lied to his boss about it.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 24 July 2017
• Qi finally meets the old sensei, who fights on even after he's forced to send his underlings scurrying to safety, and the elder puts up a hell of a fight.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024