How to Use underfund in a Sentence

underfund

verb

• My sense is that for a state as large and complex as ours, it’s just been underfunded for decades.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2018
• These scores are a reflection of the fact that our schools are underfunded.
  — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• The biggest issue the IRS faces in on the resources, being just underfunded for a long time.
  — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
• When a scheme is underfunded, one of three things can happen.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Ervin disagreed with the rest of the field’s analysis that schools are underfunded.
  — Erin Cox, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2018
• Teacher pension costs have been underfunded by the state for decades.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 5 Sep. 2017
• Fox unloaded the team to the McCourts, who were underfunded.
  — Dylan Hernandez, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• Thus far, the agency, which oversees much busier skies than New Zealand and has long been underfunded, has been slow to adopt rules for new technologies.
  — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• Pushed aside for years by countries who underfunded it and only gave it the time of day when faced with a deadly health emergency, the WHO now has a good chance to make a strong case for itself.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2020
• But we are still faced with a massive obligation that is underfunded.
  — Dennis Keene, Cincinnati.com, 20 Aug. 2017
• This suggests the campaign is underfunded and can only afford focus-group testing left over from the Coolidge years.
  — James Lileks, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019
• In one of the cases, workers allege that Dignity Health - the fifth-largest provider of health care in the country - has underfunded its pension plan by $1.2 billion.
  — CBS News, 5 June 2017
• Critics of ESAs argue the program is part of a broader strategy to underfund the public-school system.
  — Rob O'Dell, azcentral, 10 Apr. 2018
• Providers stressed that while the current spending cuts are a shock, Idaho has long underfunded substance abuse treatment.
  — Audrey Dutton, idahostatesman, 17 Jan. 2018
• High-risk pools were big money losers and underfunded in the pre-Obamacare days, even though many had restrictions, high premiums and waiting lists.
  — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 4 May 2017
• The state's pension systems are only underfunded by $135 billion, so why not?
  — Dan McCaleb, Daily Southtown, 7 June 2019
• The report noted that state polls are often underfunded.
  — Jessica Estepa, USA TODAY, 4 May 2017
• Britain will become a much older country in the 2020s, straining the National Health Service and social care, both of which are already underfunded.
  — The Economist, 27 July 2019
• Start with the short-term thinkers on Beacon Hill who neglected the transit system for decades, underfunding it and failing to plan for the region’s expanding needs until too late.
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2019
• The superintendent said the message to the voters remains that the Brooklyn City School District is underfunded in relation to how the state funds non-public schools.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2019
• Oklahoma has always been a low-tax state that underfunds public services….
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2017
• After next year’s boost, Colorado will underfund its schools by $672 million a year versus what’s required by the state Constitution.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
• When schools are underfunded, teachers are underpaid, and classrooms are overcrowded, the stresses placed on schools become too much to bear.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 8 May 2018
• The police force appears to be overextended and underfunded.
  — Chris Korman, USA TODAY, 22 May 2017
• On top of this, the bilingual education program is underfunded and has failed to reach many areas of rural Paraguay, where Guaraní speakers are still schooled in Spanish, leading many to drop out.
  — Myles McCormick, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2018
• Some of the delay is the result of Congress underfunding the program in its early days, but SpaceX suffered an explosive anomaly during at test earlier this year that added to the wait.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2019
• While the state has ramped up financial support for Providence over the last decade as part of an attempt to make up for years of underfunding the system, the actual day-to-day support for the district has been spotty at best.
  — Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• The National Health Service is underfunded, leading to long wait times for emergency and routine care.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 12 Dec. 2019
• This is a cynical and shameful ploy: These problems have been decades in the making as states systematically underfund their pension systems.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 23 Apr. 2020
• But regardless, there is still significant worry that a full-blown outbreak across African countries will have devastating effects given weaker and underfunded public health systems and infrastructure on the continent.
  — Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, 9 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024