How to Use uncompetitive in a Sentence

uncompetitive

adjective
  • As long as the school system keeps offering uncompetitive wages, people looking for jobs will apply elsewhere.
  • Too many sliders hung in the middle of the zone or were uncompetitive out of his hand.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • Shoring up the old uncompetitive power plants is not the only thing at stake, though.
    — John Funk, cleveland.com, 16 June 2017
  • In many of those, the games themselves were about as uncompetitive as that record would suggest.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
  • That’s just one of the many ways that vehicles grow uncompetitive over time.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2018
  • With a team that’s given up the most goals in the league, that’s the recipe for a lot of uncompetitive losses.
    — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Trump’s tariffs, which helped make their crops uncompetitive around the world, drove prices down further.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Two walks aren’t ideal, a couple of uncompetitive pitches in those at-bats.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The trouble is that in the services sector there are a lot of uncompetitive people.
    — Eshe Nelson, Quartz, 14 June 2019
  • There were two other good starts in there as well, but over his last three, he’s been inefficient at best and uncompetitive at worst.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
  • New Jersey did so despite what many thought would be an uncompetitive affair.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 7 Nov. 2021
  • After three uncompetitive losses, the chances of that promise holding true were bleak.
    — Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • McDaniel has been on the hot seat for much of the season as the Dolphins have been largely uncompetitive.
    — Zac Jackson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Their elections are often in down-ballot, uncompetitive races.
    — Josh Wood, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
  • But the Terps have largely been uncompetitive against the Big Ten giants.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The game was uncompetitive by halftime, when the Valkyries led 47-30.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
  • But if making a finals uncompetitive is the standard for ruining the sport, the Warriors may have been too late.
    — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 9 June 2018
  • There was opportunities where, in the past, there might have been an overthrow or an uncompetitive miss — those turned into strikeouts.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The problem is that airlines can’t afford to sign expensive long-term contracts that might leave them uncompetitive as oil prices fluctuate.
    — Justin Worland, TIME, 23 July 2024
  • The point is, Democrats look increasingly uncompetitive for the Senate in states that aren’t at least purple-ish.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 8 Nov. 2018
  • As a result, the model did not qualify for the Chinese subsidies, which doomed it to be uncompetitive.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Casteel has been uncompetitive in three losses to Chandler, Hamilton and Basha over the past four weeks.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Never last season did Pivetta have a start as uncompetitive as Thursday’s.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Chase voicing his frustration on the sideline and another week where this team was embarrassed and uncompetitive.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Coming out of the bye, the Rams mustered a season-low 223 yards and looked uncompetitive against their biggest rival.
    — Adam Burke, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
  • That’s more in line with recent statewide vote totals, but the Democratic map also would create districts that largely would be uncompetitive.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2021
  • This wasn’t the defeat at the hands of Arkansas, where the defense allowed 644 yards and looked uncompetitive.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Essentially, Denver has only two uncompetitive losses all season when its star player is on the court.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Jobs in the ski industry often pay uncompetitive wages, and the cost of housing in American ski towns has skyrocketed.
    — Hanna Kozlowska, Outside Online, 31 Mar. 2022
  • On paper the Kings are deeper, faster and more skillful than the group that fell apart late last season and became embarrassingly uncompetitive.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021

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