How to Use underscore in a Sentence

underscore

1 of 2 verb

• She underscored the most important points.
• These failures underscore the difficulty of what we're attempting to do.
• The President's visit underscores the administration's commitment to free trade.
• The trio’s on-air chemistry underscores the idea that these guys are still part of a team.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• The shooting underscored a recent surge in hate crimes against Asians in the US.
  — John Blake, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• At the end of the day, all of this underscores just how important being on top of one’s heart health is.
  — Brian Mastroianni, Health, 26 Sep. 2023
• The latest round of cuts underscores how flawed that thinking was and that there are likely more cuts on the horizon.
  — Vulture, 10 Jan. 2024
• That setback merely underscores the stakes and the mounting sense of doom.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
• For some Maori, the cyclone underscored their resilience.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• His warnings about the West helped underscore the urgency of those changes.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• That time frame underscores the narrowing of the show’s focus.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
• But the apparent pessimism of U.S. officials about the course of the war underscores the question about what should come next.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
• But by the end of the week, the council had yet to materialize, underscoring the deal’s fragility.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• But Levesque underscored the value of shopping secondhand from the get-go.
  — Maia Torres, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2023
• Experts said such moves underscore the need for heat rules at the federal level.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• The bodycam footage underscores just how much about the events that led up to the raid – including why Cody appeared in close touch with Newell during the searches – remains unknown.
  — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
• The speech underscores everything that was wrong about what Macchiarini did.
  — Vulture, 21 Dec. 2023
• The studio’s presence underscores not only the caliber of games emerging but is proof of the Canary Islands’ potential to attract the best in their field.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 17 Aug. 2023
• Most of the details in the report underscored the job market’s durability.
  — Time, 7 July 2023
• The blur of numbers, no matter how sliced or diced, underscore where San Diego State is most vulnerable as win-or-go-home games arrive.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024
• Officials say the recent uptick in cases underscores the need to catch up on routine shots that were missed during the pandemic.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2024
• This underscores the obvious: Global economies are driven by the prices of fossil fuels, not by the prices of renewables.
  — Diana Furchtgott-Roth, National Review, 13 Oct. 2023
• There is deep trauma here, underscored by the images of military dictators who have betrayed the promise of Africa.
  — The Beautiful Ones, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2023
• The recent rise in gas prices underscores the reality that inflation could flare up once more.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• The figure underscores the city’s scramble to house asylum-seekers being sent to Chicago from the southern border.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• But the turnout for the event underscores that investors remain interested in the Middle East, which saw some of the strongest rates of economic growth globally in 2022.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• The power of female moviegoers was underscored once again in the wake of summer juggernaut Barbie.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2023
• While Kelly made no grand new announcements in the speech, the address underscored an emerging theme of her governorship.
  — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2024
• And for Fleming, the recent stoat incursion only underscores the importance of the Predator Free 2050 plan.
  — Dhruv Tikekar, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
• The unfolding events underscore that adolescents’ capacity for compassion is fragile and often informed by the actions of the grown-ups around them.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Apr. 2024

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underscore

2 of 2 noun

• The words that run next to the rampant bear underscore the point.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2017
• Keep the format with the year first and the underscore to keep everything tidy.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2021
• The lack of color underscores how shocking these works once were.
  — Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener and Will Heinrich, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
• The city’s canopy of trees, too, the host and his camera underscore, is denser in the wealthier neighborhoods.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• Recent sales in the high-end market underscore May's point.
  — Neal Leitereg, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• But the late pick-five underscores some of the problems in the industry and disconnect between those who run the sport and those who bet on it.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 25 Dec. 2017
• The songs that are used in the show underscore Victor's struggles, with tunes about falling in love and feeling confused.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 18 June 2020
• The time for a more complete celebration of the underscore was long overdue.
  — Bobby Finger, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2021
• Meals at Patowmack Farm underscore why chefs have always come to her, rather than the other way around.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
• That blacks may do even better underscores the need to dig deeper to find out why, said Halabi.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2018
• That blacks may do even better underscores the need to dig deeper to find out why, said Dr. Halabi.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 3 June 2018
• Fried also was nominated on his own for his underscore on the eighth and final episode.
  — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
• The new details about the Russian buildup underscore US officials' heightened alarm over the movements.
  — Jim Sciutto, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
• Such bumps along the road of Europe’s recovery from the ravages of its debt crisis underscore why Draghi is not yet ready to pare back support for the euro area.
  — Marcus Bensasson, Bloomberg.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Moore’s life and death underscore that not all heroes become legends.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
• And while the family certainly is special, as the movie underscores, the Incredibles don’t want to withdraw from the world.
  — Brad Bird, New York Times, 13 June 2018
• The vulnerability and the lack of a patch underscore a problem with third-party code libraries that has gotten worse over the past decade.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022
• First-quarter sales data from NielsenIQ underscore that fear.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 14 Apr. 2022
• One of the things that Annual underscores is how diverse your work is — in terms of everything: tone, subject, approach, even type of outlet.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2017
• Questions about the oil and gas industry’s future in Scotland underscore trends that have been visible for years.
  — New York Times, 27 Sep. 2021
• Votto’s home run total underscores what’s becoming one of his best-ever seasons at the plate.
  — Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• It had been sent to a Yahoo email address almost identical to JK’s real one, only the fake one had an underscore between her first and last names instead of a dot.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 15 Jan. 2020
• That specialists are even more sought-after underscores how hot that market has become.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 July 2019
• The account names had extra letters or underscores, or easy-to-miss substitutions.
  — Mark Hansen, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• Other ancient genomes analyzed in the study underscore that ancient Siberia was a human crossroads.
  — Bymichael Price, science.org, 12 Jan. 2023
• And as the recent storm season underscores, South Florida comes with disaster risk, Foster said.
  — Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 19 Oct. 2017
• Passages like that one underscore Renkl’s sublime style.
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2021
• The early data on cancer underscore concerns that the negative health impact of the coronavirus extends well beyond the direct effects of Covid-19.
  — Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• Last night's episode established violence as a running theme in the series, and tonight's underscores the lack of opportunity.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Nov. 2018
• Now, fresh details from Uber’s fatal self-driving car crash in March underscore not just the difficulty of this problem, but its centrality.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 29 May 2018

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