How to Use underprepared in a Sentence

underprepared

adjective

• Nothing takes the fun out of cooking quite like being underprepared in the kitchen.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
• And this underprepared this is not just in the realm of infectious disease.
  — Fox News, 15 Apr. 2020
• They were prepared for a protest and were badly underprepared for the riot.
  — Michael Balsamo, ajc, 3 Mar. 2021
• Even more impressive, the Browns defense seemed overwhelmed and underprepared early when the Vikings pushed 75 yards in 14 plays for a TD.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2021
• That sparked an idea about a couple of underprepared guys trying to capitalize off the hype.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• At least 210 people died in Texas, where the underprepared power grid gave out and more than 4 million households lost power.
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
• Even by the gentler standards of ritual, Look Back at It was underprepared.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 June 2021
• Cut down on courses like these, and kids may be hugely underprepared to navigate essential parts of the adult world.
  — Kat McKim, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021
• Marlon Brando was overweight and underprepared for his role as a deranged Green Berets colonel.
  — Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• The new data paints a picture of the USA as woefully underprepared for damaging floods.
  — Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 29 June 2020
• This is our now-or-never moment to invest in public health, to prevent the next pandemic, and to ensure that the world is never again so underprepared.
  — Dr. Tom Frieden, CNN, 27 Apr. 2021
• Underequipped and underprepared, these volunteers joined the war effort from all walks of life.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2022
• The majority of women in the U.S. feel underprepared for the physical changes, treatments, and stigma around menopause, a new survey shows.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 15 June 2022
• Coastal cities are woefully underprepared for the rising tides.
  — April Reese, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2016
• His team could have another losing record if the Longhorns are underprepared or if more injuries sideline players.
  — Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2022
• The allegation is a common one across many of the lawsuits, as many traditional schools were woefully underprepared to make the abrupt switch to online.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2020
• Baby boomers and Gen X are wildly underprepared for retirement on the whole, according to many surveys and studies.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
• In addition to historic heat, part of what made this heat wave so dangerous was that the Pacific Northwest is underprepared for such extremes.
  — Angela Fritz, Carma Hassan and Brisa Colon, CNN, 29 June 2021
• But things rarely work that way, and parents and students are left scrambling for solutions as teachers are overwhelmed—and often underprepared to support them.
  — A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, Parents, 8 Dec. 2023
• Moreover, the research center was woefully underprepared for the care of penguins.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2021
• The other storyline being pushed is that Spence is a lefty, Pacquiao was preparing for a lefty in sparring, and Ugas is right-handed, so Pacquiao might be underprepared.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2021
• Many experts agree that the United States remains underprepared for a pandemic or a bioterrorism threat.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Mike Tomlin’s Steelers have been a major disappointment the past two seasons, and his team was woefully underprepared in its 33-3 loss to the Patriots.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• Instead, Ukraine has inflicted heavy losses on a Russian force seemingly underprepared for a long, tough fight.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
• As climate change pushes fires to extremes, the vast majority of homes in at-risk areas are woefully underprepared for the next inferno.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Rioters smashed windows, broke through doors and beat and bloodied law enforcement officers who were vastly underprepared for the mob.
  — Steve Leblanc and Ben Fox, Chron, 26 Apr. 2022
• Shiv is ballsy and Machiavellian, Connor is pedantic and distant, Roman is slippery and numb, Kendall is overeager and underprepared.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2019
• Early-childhood educators are hard to come by and consistently underprepared, so a Denver child-care provider is trying to change things with a new in-house training model.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2017
• When they finally are reunited, she’s woefully underprepared—with a bread basket on her head and a jam mustache adorning her upper lip.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 16 July 2022
• The Cardinals appeared both overmatched and underprepared and were dominated on both sides of the ball throughout a first half that rendered the second half immaterial.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 7 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024