How to Use undermine in a Sentence

undermine

verb

• The events of the past year have undermined people's confidence in the government.
• She tried to undermine my authority by complaining about me to my boss.
• This would undermine that goal.
  — Daniel Borenstein, Mercury News, 12 June 2026
• There are real risks that could slow or undermine progress.
  — John Kerry, semafor.com, 10 Mar. 2026
• The judge is going to go to work to try to undermine her in a number of ways.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
• Or, the virus can evolve in ways that undermine the power of the vaccines.
  — Andrew Joseph and Matthew Herper, STAT, 9 Apr. 2022
• His war with Iran threatens to undermine all of that.
  — David Goldman, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
• Some worry they could be used to undermine the process or sow doubts about the results.
  — Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
• Harpviken’s cute phone call undermines its power.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
• That record deserves to be built upon, not undermined by rates that fail to keep pace.
  — Joe Hardy, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
• That mission has now been undermined.
  — John Eger, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
• What's driving those returns, though, is the same force that could soon undermine them.
  — Tim Maxwell, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
• But the defense is expected to do their best to undermine the state's case.
  — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
• All four have undermined their dad’s confidence in his doctors and in my care for him.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025
• But this undermines the premise of personal style.
  — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 9 Apr. 2026
• Be good to yourself, and protect against anyone who tries to undermine you.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
• This is one of the subtler ways people undermine their own self-respect.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• When the system’s rigged against you, try to undermine it or circumvent it.
  — Jack Dunn, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
• When the system’s rigged against you, try to undermine it or circumvent it.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
• Someone might undermine an effort or somehow not have your back.
  — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 2 Mar. 2026
• But an increase in the scholarship amount would undermine that point.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
• The fact that this kid tried to undermine the job is the reason why the job has to happen now, no matter the cost.
  — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
• The stakes are massive and much wider than whether City’s on-pitch achievements will be undermined.
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
• This is somebody who is undermining the health care system.
  — Obed Manuel, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
• But in just the last month alone, both of those positions have been fatally undermined.
  — Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2026
• Wilson's ruling could help undermine or bolster the state's case.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2022
• On the other hand, there are lots of ways to undermine this redundancy.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• There are eight issues that have begun to undermine the stock market's shaky support.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
• And the facts are the Cuban regime has undermined democracies in our hemisphere.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
• Renken called his colleagues' complaint nonsense and an attempt to undermine his own claim against them.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2025