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.
• None of his underlings spent time in jail for killing protesters.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• This is not the sort of work Feinberg plans to assign to one of his underlings.
  — Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
• When investment bankers or clients want something done, staffers find underlings for the drudgery.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024
• Surely that high-risk role would better be performed by an underling and not the leader of the rebels.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
• 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
• But even the wisest of presidents need underlings who can disagree with them.
  — Gary J. Bass, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2017
• Sure, there’s ample humor in the show, about a countess smitten with an underling.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2020
• All of these factors were present in Hillary Clinton’s case (and that of her underlings).
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018
• 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
• His underlings are nothing but a bunch of opportunists and enablers.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 22 Feb. 2018
• And all the while underlings scrambled madly for a correct number.
  — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
• Middle managers have to switch between being the boss and being an underling.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
• Several of his underlings are in graves, and the majority of the others are in cells.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 30 Apr. 2024
• One manager was accused of stripping naked and asking underlings to join him in a bathtub.
  — Sam Stanton and Diana Lambert, sacbee, 25 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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 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
• Trump berates underlings over Twitter; de Blasio, at least, has the courtesy to do so over email.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
• Trump’s victory, however, does not mean underlings like Spicer can get away with egregious lies and bizarre gaffes.
  — Jennifer Rubin, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Bobby Petrino had an affair with an underling at Arkansas and lied to his boss about it.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 24 July 2017
• 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
• Trump, never one to be burdened by details, has been more than happy to look at the big-picture goals and leave the annoyances to underlings.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
• Nothing gets Trump angrier than when one of his underlings is caught doing something stupid on videotape.
  — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026
• White House senior staff let it be known that their doors were open to underlings if anyone needed to talk through the difficulties.
  — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 19 July 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
• Alone, in the Oval Office, what any president says to an underling is very rarely a suggestion.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 June 2017