How to Use uncompetitive in a Sentence

uncompetitive

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• As long as the school system keeps offering uncompetitive wages, people looking for jobs will apply elsewhere.
• With a team that’s given up the most goals in the league, that’s the recipe for a lot of uncompetitive losses.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2022
• Webb’s final four pitches were four uncompetitive balls to Shohei Ohtani, the ninth batter to reach base of the 20 Dodgers to come to the plate against the Giants’ ace.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
• In many of those, the games themselves were about as uncompetitive as that record would suggest.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
• Shoring up the old uncompetitive power plants is not the only thing at stake, though.
  — John Funk, cleveland.com, 16 June 2017
• That’s just one of the many ways that vehicles grow uncompetitive over time.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2018
• The trouble is that in the services sector there are a lot of uncompetitive people.
  — Eshe Nelson, Quartz, 14 June 2019
• This wasn’t the defeat at the hands of Arkansas, where the defense allowed 644 yards and looked uncompetitive.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
• Coming out of the bye, the Rams mustered a season-low 223 yards and looked uncompetitive against their biggest rival.
  — Adam Burke, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• Casteel has been uncompetitive in three losses to Chandler, Hamilton and Basha over the past four weeks.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2022
• In an uncompetitive field, the U.K. boasts both a reasonable record and plans for tackling the climate crisis.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2021
• The result were the same as its been throughout the Fever's now-seven-game losing streak: an uncompetitive loss — this one 89-81 to Connecticut.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 13 July 2022
• But if making a finals uncompetitive is the standard for ruining the sport, the Warriors may have been too late.
  — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 9 June 2018
• The group won’t be confused with the 1990s Braves, but all of its members have shown the arsenals to avoid the repetitively uncompetitive contests of a year ago.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021
• The point is, Democrats look increasingly uncompetitive for the Senate in states that aren’t at least purple-ish.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 8 Nov. 2018
• With 10 or so laps to go and running solidly mid-pack, though, Ware’s No. 52 was pulled from the race due to what IndyCar race control deemed uncompetitive speeds.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Aug. 2021
• Others might say that a great race anywhere on the grounds that Tony Hulman saved in November of 1945 is better than a boring, uncompetitive one on the oval.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2021
• The perennially-uncompetitive Oakland Raiders have risen to the top of the standings this season thanks to a high-powered offense.
  — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2016
• Gelsinger said that it’s been economically uncompetitive to build plants in the US compared with East Asia.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
• That compares to the wildly uncompetitive map Ohio has used since through this year, which favors Republicans to win 12 of 16 seats.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 19 July 2022
• The main driver of GM’s failure a decade ago was its uncompetitive labor contracts.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
• Ford in the 2010s, on the other hand, had only the uncompetitive, uncompelling Focus Electric.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 15 Oct. 2021
• More on Tigers: Their at-bats were uncompetitive throughout, swinging early in counts at an array of breaking balls Nova threw at them.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2019
• New Jersey did so despite what many thought would be an uncompetitive affair.
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 7 Nov. 2021
• To see the challenge ahead, consider the present state of the U.S. weapons industry, which is already remarkably uncompetitive.
  — Ganesh Sitaraman, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
• The series was a roller coaster and mostly uncompetitive.
  — New York Times, 4 July 2021
• Amid a sea of uncompetitive games, Lake Havasu’s visit to Waddell last week provided the Jaguars with a necessary test ahead of the rigors of postseason play.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2022
• The old, uncompetitive U.S. tax laws forced jobs and investment overseas.
  — Rob Portman, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
• Key races and electoral math Although there’ll be 140 elections on the ballot, most seats are uncompetitive, so a few key contests will decide party control.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• The problem is that airlines can’t afford to sign expensive long-term contracts that might leave them uncompetitive as oil prices fluctuate.
  — Justin Worland, TIME, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024