How to Use underline in a Sentence

underline

verb

• His name was underlined in the book.
• The accident underlines our need for better safety procedures.
• Read that again, bold it, and underline it—this is what the #VillainEra is all about, friends.
  — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Mar. 2023
• That show was a hit, and underlined that Lacroix, far from retired, had plenty left to say.
  — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2023
• And the Teutonic edge of the verses serves to underline the bombs-away aspects of the music while the stage explodes around the band.
  — Tristram Lozaw, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• As if to underline the need for joy, a reggae dancer jaunted down center stage to close the show.
  — Colleen Barry, ajc, 18 June 2022
• Before swearing in the jury, the judge offered Sadik a final chance to take a plea, and underlined the risk.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The minutes underlined what a difficult moment this is for the Fed.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• In the caption of the post, Ru continued to underline the exposure in the new memoir.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2023
• As if to underline the slow rate of change, the leader of this year’s championship is … Surrey.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Recent trends have underlined the need for such changes.
  — WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023
• The fluidity of the book’s move to the screen underlines the care Tomine takes in composing his panels.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• Bier and the showrunner Cathy Schulman have explained, to underline common themes across their tenures.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2022
• Throughout the clip, a sneak peak of a new song blares in the background, with a pounding club beat underlining her explicit lyrics.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2024
• The fact that Liverpool still won 4-1 underlines the quality and depth in a squad that Klopp will soon be handing over.
  — Steve Douglas, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• Her group and others like it plan to underline the difference.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• Does all the meta commentary undermine or underline the points that Nabers and Glover are trying to make?
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
• Prudence needs to underline the strategy, but there should be a bias to action.
  — Jonathan Fianu, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• Just to put a pin in it, highlight it, circle it, bold, italic, and underline that inversion.
  — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 17 Jan. 2023
• These figures underline the resilience and resurgence of the city’s travel and tourism sector.
  — Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• But the chasm between the silver high-rises of Sandton and the old heart of Johannesburg underlines why South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world.
  — Mogomotsi Magome and Gerald Imray, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
• The death hoax had forced me to look at my life with a rare, bird’s-eye perspective and underlined how important being a journalist was to me.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• The news, while positive, also underlined the slow pace of Ukrainian troops’ progress.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• The sentence is the only one underlined in the five-page reporting policy.
  — Tony Cook, ProPublica, 28 Nov. 2023
• The figures underline the scale of the squeeze some households are facing as basic living costs rocket far faster than wages.
  — Fortune, 28 July 2022
• The bus crash on Friday, in which the two drivers were killed, also underlined for many Italians the growing crisis over migrants.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Protests over the last week have underlined the sense of urgency among many voters to ban the AfD before regional elections this fall.
  — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• The hairstyles’ main purpose is to underline a person’s beauty.
  — Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2022
• With her new novel, Waldman underlines their efforts with thick strokes.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
• Ramaswamy was booed at least four times on the stage, underlining his relatively divisive role in the field.
  — Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024