How to Use lowball in a Sentence

lowball

verb
  • It became clear that the contractor had lowballed us on the cost of materials.
  • Management lowballed him in contract negotiations.
  • A lot of these babies have bum agents that lowball them.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 13 May 2026
  • To put it another way, now isn’t the time to lowball an offer.
    — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Keep an eye out for sketchy gigs, toxic clients, vague job descriptions, and clients who lowball your rates.
    — Sho Dewan, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Teams will probably use his lack of size, midround draft selection and injury to lowball him.
    — cleveland, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Bang does better with the grotesquerie of hellfire, where lowballing the tone can have a sharp, often comic edge.
    — Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Or worse, lowball offers that don’t match the valuation.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This would encourage drugmakers to cut off countries that lowball them.
    — WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022
  • That number was clearly lowballing it a little bit, as the car went 233 mph within months.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2025
  • That means a drafting team can’t lowball a player based on his medicals, as has happened on occasion in the past.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2022
  • The former president has said that the documents, if anything, lowballed his wealth.
    — Byjennifer Peltz, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2023
  • This move screams panic after the Hornets lowballed Walker and let Lamb walk.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 30 June 2019
  • Critics say cities wooed by dreams of reaping billions in new revenue and investment often lowball their budgets.
    — Linda Hervieux, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • But he's been in this exact situation before, which should give the Cavs pause about attempting to lowball him.
    — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Farmers complained that they were getting lowballed by brokers and corrupt politicians, but bigger trouble brewed.
    — Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Skubal suddenly seemed to be a trade candidate when Heyman first reported that the Tigers were lowballing him.
    — Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • An employer could use your EDR to find your past salary range and lowball you in negotiations.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
  • In my view, lowballing the value of your house to punish your husband financially is not an appropriate approach.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 20 July 2019
  • Also be sure to ask what surprises cropped up and whether the price tag increased over the course of the construction, both of which could be signs of a company that lowballs its bids.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The lower offer sparked outcry in the community, which saw Kehoe as trying to lowball the county.
    — Molly Harbarger, OregonLive.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • In my view, lowballing the value of your house in order to punish your husband financially is not an appropriate approach.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
  • Some companies prioritize short-term profits over employee satisfaction and might see lowballing as a way to cut costs.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The other five drugs were developed entirely in-house—and the authors lowballed cost estimates for developing these drugs.
    — Peter J. Pitts, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Beyond that, what’s to stop teams from collectively lowballing free agents as the deadline approaches, putting top players in a take-it or leave-it situation?
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 11 Jan. 2026
  • In a recession, companies are more reluctant to hire and often lowball their offers for talented workers.
    — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • Should the Democrats hold themselves to higher standards than Republicans and continue to get lowballed?
    — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Its actual earnings could be even higher since Sony has traditionally lowballed its profit guidance.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Critics of the voluntary deal say Trump’s definition of earnings is unclear and gave the president plenty of room to lowball the figure.
    — Time, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Groups opposed to Putin have, since early in the crisis, insisted that the government is lowballing its coronavirus statistics.
    — NBC News, 14 Apr. 2020

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