How to Use underachiever in a Sentence

underachiever

noun

• Is the fastest on dirt; might be an underachiever though; tough to trust.
  — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• An underachiever who would very much like to be left alone.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2021
• And yes, count the United States squarely among the underachievers – this year at least.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
• Coates, once a brilliant underachiever, used his first book to hone the craft of putting the lives of black folks into context.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2018
• Davis can’t stand that his team is viewed as underachievers.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2017
• The other names of the decade, however, are a who’s who of underachievers and busts, like Swift and Milicic.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2019
• The Browns don’t need to dynamite the roster of last year’s 6-10 underachievers.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2020
• Both starting goalies have been underachievers thus far, but Holtby is in the better form of late and will backstop the Caps to a home win.
  — Chris Wassel, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 29 Nov. 2019
• Arizona State is an underachiever, and the sooner Herm Edwards gets the gate, the better.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 5 July 2022
• Enjoy the hard choices, embrace the chaos, and let go of the underachievers that have been weighing down your roster.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• Jeff, too, is dragged down that path, transforming from a sweet underachiever (who once had scurvy) to a vengeful husk — and then back again.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• The Sox are one of baseball biggest underachievers this season, mired in third place and on pace to win 86 games — 22 fewer than last season.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
• If there has ever been a massive underachiever, USC is it.
  — oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2021
• Texas — Finds itself on a list of the biggest underachievers in college football.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• Lawrence’s Maddie is an underachiever who grew up in Montauk, the picturesque sea village at the tip of Long Island, and never left.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 June 2023
• Among those drafted and developed by the Rangers, there had been Martín Pérez, who at the time was labeled an underachiever, and everybody else.
  — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
• In this interpretation, Wenwu looms as the big bad tiger dad to Shang-Chi, the gifted underachiever who’s gone West and gone soft.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2021
• How can a player who has started every game that he's played in the NFL be considered an underachiever?
  — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 16 July 2017
• Norman Oppenheimer is a late-in-life underachiever who will not give up.
  — Colin Covert, star-telegram.com, 4 May 2017
• Having recorded 19 tackles for loss and 10 sacks in two seasons, Williams was no underachiever for the Bulldogs.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2021
• France was trying to shed its label as underachievers here.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 28 June 2019
• The only thing that is certain is that the Celtics, until proven otherwise, are front-runners and underachievers.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• Don't try this at home, people, but Pitt pulls off the middle-age underachiever look perfectly.
  — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 12 July 2019
• Knight is 100 percent correct that the grapefruit is the underachiever of the citrus family.
  — EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
• The quick version of what happened is this: ASU was a constant underachiever in basketball.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2021
• BBrown doesn't praise a QB who is an immature underachiever.
  — Nathaniel Cline, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• Rivers takes over a team that finished a disappointing 43-30 in the Eastern Conference, lost to the Boston Celtics in the first round of the playoffs and has been labeled an underachiever.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
• But before this, he was known as a chronic playoff underachiever.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2021
• The supervisor’s son Klaus (Theo Dahl) is insecure about his across-the-board Bs, fretting that mediocre grades will steer him into the life of an underachiever.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
• Successful underachiever working for Vincent Plum Bail Bonds as a recovery agent, hunting down losers who've skipped out on their bond.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024