How to Use underperform in a Sentence

underperform

verb

• The report shows which schools are underperforming.
• The team underperformed, weighed down by their young non-talents, limped into the playoffs, beat the Kings and lost to the Lakers.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
• Often, stocks that underperform in the prior year will have more room to grow in the current year.
  — David Rae, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• After the project underperformed, she was dropped from that label and had to move back to Missouri.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• And those folks that don’t embrace that mantra tend to underperform over long periods of time.
  — Vulture, 7 Apr. 2022
• One caveat: Even if strategists feel good about the market as a whole, there's room for shares in certain sectors to underperform.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
• The two sides face off again, on Tuesday, in what is being billed as a crunch match for underperforming China.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
• The stock fell nearly 5% on Thursday, underperforming the broader market and putting it on course for its worst day in more than two months.
  — Reuters, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• That Marvel was not the only Disney brand underperforming at the box office didn’t help.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• The company is closing 150 underperforming stores over the next few years.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• Each year about two-thirds of active managers underperform the index, and those who outperform in one year are not the same as those who outperform in the next.
  — Daniel Akst, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• What happens if the Browns underperform once again this coming season?
  — cleveland, 27 Feb. 2022
• What if the party underperformed, just before its leader, Keir Starmer, had to make one of the most important speeches of his career?
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• High-growth tech stocks with weak earnings and poor cash flow tend to underperform the markets when interest rates begin to climb.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2022
• This means that when the U.S. dollar gains momentum, Bitcoin tends to underperform, and vice versa.
  — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2022
• Peltz on their board underperform the S&P during the entirety of his tenure.
  — Steven Tian, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2023
• And soon enough, the UConn men’s basketball team will have its moments in which things get mucked up, players get hurt or underperform, an opponent plays out of its mind.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 25 Nov. 2022
• And yet somehow, with all that going against them and expectations set low, the Olympic telecasts have still managed to underperform so far.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• Despite injuries and underperforming players, Lue kept his cool and gave his team a chance to advance into the playoffs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Alamo Drafthouse had to close down a few underperforming venues as part of its bankruptcy filing.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
• The gang fines members who underperform or don’t show up for work, analysis of the chats by security firm CheckPoint shows.
  — Matt Burgess, Wired, 16 Mar. 2022
• The sale of underperforming stores, ancillary businesses, and the fleet of corporate jets weren’t enough.
  — James Keyes, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
• Two grossly underperforming teams who would each be sitting home in October if the season ended at the All-Star break.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• Its stock remains down on the year and has underperformed the European banking sector.
  — WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
• In any case, conversations with firms and investors made clear that most LPs are bracing for funds that invested in 2021 to underperform.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• The film, an underrated satire of action movie cliches, underperformed at the box office.
  — Al Shipley, Spin, 28 Sep. 2023
• Still, Deutsche Bank has severely underperformed most European banks on the stock market this year.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
• Gone are the days when having a powerful laptop meant having to lug around an oversize brick in your backpack, or risk buying one that underperforms.
  — Christian De Looper, wsj.com, 1 Nov. 2023
• But without a discernible strategy, the club now finds itself with a bloated and underperforming roster, and clinging to eighth place in the 20-team Premier League.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• Snyder fought ferociously against the forces that were leading his team to underperform.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024