underscore

verb un·der·score \ ˈən-dər-ˌskȯr \

|Updated on: 8 Aug 2018

Examples: underscore in a Sentence

Definition of underscore

underscored; underscoring; underscores

transitive verb

1 : to draw a line under : underline

2 : to make evident : emphasize, stress

arrived early to underscore the importance of the occasion

3 : to provide (action on film) with accompanying music

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Examples of underscore in a Sentence

These failures underscore the difficulty of what we're attempting to do.
The President's visit underscores the administration's commitment to free trade.
She underscored the most important points.

Recent Examples of underscore from the Web

Past, present and future are coterminous here, a sense underscored by Jon Clark’s lighting and Luke Halls’s video projections, which summon an eternal Manhattan that is equal parts steel and shadow.

— ben brantley, New York Times, "Review: ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Is a Transfixing Epic of Riches and Ruin," 13 July 2018
The move underscores how the Trump administration has sidelined science to promote energy development.

— zack colman, Scientific American, "A Trump Oil Boom Could Transform This Rocky Mountain Landscape," 13 July 2018
His lending of his star power and fundraising prowess to Sinema's Arizona campaign underscores the nationalDemocratic Party's hopes of retaking the Senate.

— yvonne wingett sanchez, azcentral, "Joe Biden to headline fundraiser for Rep. Kyrsten Sinema's U.S. Senate run," 10 July 2018
In announcing the new tournament — the first pro golf men's competition in the Milwaukee area since 1961 — general chairman Ralph Rosenheimer, founder of North Shore State Bank, underscored the GMO's ambitions.

— chris foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "The first Greater Milwaukee Open PGA golf tournament, in 1968, also was nearly the last," 10 July 2018
The officials underscored that McConnell did not push any choice on the president.

— author: robert costa, david weigel, robert barnes, Anchorage Daily News, "Trump weighs top picks for Supreme Court amid last-minute maneuvering," 8 July 2018
Nature as a bountiful resource for commercial exploitation is the painting’s subject, underscored by a mountain that belongs to both nature and civilization and by a tree branch artfully composed by a stylish painter.

— christopher knight, latimes.com, "Grafton Tyler Brown's California scenes at Pasadena museum's final show," 30 June 2018
Fields Family Tempranillo Lot 13 Vineyard 2014 ($28, 14.9%): This chewy Tempranillo shows cedar and tobacco surrounding a foundation of black-red fruit, underscored by a stony, slate-like quality.

— esther mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, "Tasting notes: The diverse, dynamic wines of Lodi," 20 May 2018
Democrats on Capitol Hill said the indictments underscored the need for Trump to press Putin on the issue.

— john fritze, USA TODAY, "Russian indictments come days before Trump's first summit with Putin," 13 July 2018

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