How to Use underpowered in a Sentence

underpowered

adjective

• Light and underpowered, this cloth bird bounces in the swirling wind.
  — Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2016
• Some may find this underpowered and want more fireworks from the movie.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2023
• Mids and highs come through louder than the bass, which sounds just slightly underpowered to me.
  — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
• An underpowered one will drive slowly and require more passes to get your grass sharp and even.
  — Tony Carrick, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2023
• Your poor performance can be blamed on your underpowered clothes.
  — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 24 June 2019
• The low mids do still feel a little underpowered, and the high mids are a little more pronounced.
  — Christian De Looper, BGR, 7 Aug. 2022
• Next best options is selling all your underpowered gear to a vendors.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Which brings us to the fact that the NSX was, even when new, underpowered.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2021
• The Kindle does have a web browser, but it’s tucked away, unloved and underpowered.
  — Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
• And aging and Alzheimer’s disease both seem to leave the brain underpowered.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 2 Sep. 2024
• But road trips can be derailed by an underpowered charging network.
  — Eric Adams, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020
• His gun could hold an impressive 24 rounds, though these were small and underpowered.
  — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2022
• Cordless kitchen tools are underpowered and are never a better choice than a plug-in version of the same tool.
  — Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Oct. 2025
• The first run, at the beginning of the fall, was uneven and largely underpowered.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
• For $80, the sound profile is clean, leaving plenty of space for all tones at the cost of underpowered bass.
  — Dan Roe, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2023
• People stepped forward to an underpowered microphone to share ideas about how best to prepare for the evening.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 1 June 2020
• And just how underpowered might the Dodge Demon someday seem?
  — Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2017
• To make matters worse, the underpowered knockoffs had a propensity to overheat and catch fire.
  — Elliot Njus | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• Big and square, and generally underpowered, they were built more for getting stuff done than for getting there in a hurry.
  — Charles Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2017
• Ansari says that many dyscalculia studies, including some of his own, are underpowered and have very small sample sizes.
  — Jaimie Seaton, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2024
• However, the squad looks a little underpowered now.
  — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
• His restrained direction keeps the brothers in check and underpowered.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
• Push lightly on the pedal and the motor provides a light touch without feeling underpowered.
  — Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 8 June 2019
• The last thing anybody needs in the morning is a dull or underpowered trimmer pushing your hair around instead of cutting it—or even worse, pulling your hair.
  — Andrew Williams, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2024
• The microbus was underpowered and a little pokey on the freeways of the '50s and '60s.
  — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2017
• In the meantime, the grid will remain underpowered and overstressed, increasing the risk of blackouts.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
• An underpowered unit will not cut and grind meat evenly, causing larger pieces of connective tissue to show up in the final product.
  — Brad Fenson, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2023
• Yet much of the art in this part of the show feels underpowered, and that goes double at an unassuming art space in the west of the city, where the show really collapses.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 12 June 2018
• When fishing from shore especially, open water means longer casts, and gusts can quickly expose underpowered setups.
  — Francesca Krempa, Outside, 15 Jan. 2026
• But this isn't a case of an artist selling out — the film is sly and perceptive, overcoming a slightly underpowered middle section to sneak up on you in the final stretch.
  — Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2017