How to Use underling in a Sentence

underling

noun
  • He takes all the credit, but most of the hard work is done by his underlings.
  • Almost one year ago, the same court sentenced Eyad Gharib, an underling of Raslan, to four and a half years in prison.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • All of these factors were present in Hillary Clinton’s case (and that of her underlings).
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The problem with canning the coach is the McCaskeys and their underlings will then have to hire someone new.
    Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • And the spin that attempts to lay blame on Trump underlings is comical.
    Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 27 July 2017
  • Michaels was walking by with a group of his underlings and spotted Hammond and stopped.
    Geoff Edgers, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • To this end, they’re ruled by a squat, green Deviant named Tode, who commands an underling named Kro.
    Nola Pfau, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2022
  • None of his underlings spent time in jail for killing protesters.
    Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • In this part of the world, the heavy hitters show up for meetings with large retinues of underlings, and all of them have to have a seat at the table, so the tables go on for miles.
    Neal Stephenson, WIRED, 1 Feb. 1994
  • The FBI director assumed he was being pranked by his underlings - and had to be told by his team that the headlines were no joke.
    Ashley Parker, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017
  • The FBI director assumed he was being pranked by his underlings — and had to be told by his team that the headlines were no joke.
    Ashley Parker, Washington Post, 29 May 2017
  • Several of his underlings are in graves, and the majority of the others are in cells.
    Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 30 Apr. 2024
  • When investment bankers or clients want something done, staffers find underlings for the drudgery.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024
  • These found widespread malfeasance by his underlings, who engaged in the kind of blatant graft that would have made Boss Tweed proud.
    Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
  • But there’s a muddiness to some of the stage business, such as the bumbling of the Little Robber Girl’s bandit underlings.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Does an underling impress when standing in for their boss?
    The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Trump berates underlings over Twitter; de Blasio, at least, has the courtesy to do so over email.
    Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Sure, there’s ample humor in the show, about a countess smitten with an underling.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The alpha male and female are the only pack members whose pups survive to adulthood, and underlings feed and babysit the leaders’ pups.
    Traci Watson, National Geographic, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Juries don’t like to see a kingpin get a sweet deal and then testify against a few lackeys or underlings.
    Danny Cevallos /, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Find him, Derek commands a doomed underling, Garnett (David Witts).
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Alone, in the Oval Office, what any president says to an underling is very rarely a suggestion.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 June 2017
  • But even the wisest of presidents need underlings who can disagree with them.
    Gary J. Bass, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2017
  • Those are the key elements of an actual deal, and they have been left for the underlings to resolve going forward.
    Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 12 June 2018
  • The 49-year-old scion has a formidable partner in Shankar, a former underling at Fox.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Instead, the leaders of Facebook, Twitter, and Google sent their underlings.
    Nick Bilton, The Hive, 2 Nov. 2017
  • One underling in his party became convinced that a member of the Beard group was staring at his girlfriend.
    New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Middle managers have to switch between being the boss and being an underling.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Bobby Petrino had an affair with an underling at Arkansas and lied to his boss about it.
    Andy Staples, SI.com, 24 July 2017
  • Mass executions at the hands of Trump's underlings aren't in America's future.
    Kendra Stanton Lee, Newsweek, 9 July 2024

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