How to Use underachiever in a Sentence

underachiever

noun
  • Is the fastest on dirt; might be an underachiever though; tough to trust.
    — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • And he is viewed as an underachiever.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Coates, once a brilliant underachiever, used his first book to hone the craft of putting the lives of black folks into context.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2018
  • But before this, he was known as a chronic playoff underachiever.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2021
  • Norman Oppenheimer is a late-in-life underachiever who will not give up.
    — Colin Covert, star-telegram.com, 4 May 2017
  • There was a time when Monfils could have been characterised as an underachiever.
    — James Hansen, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Jeff, too, is dragged down that path, transforming from a sweet underachiever (who once had scurvy) to a vengeful husk — and then back again.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • And yes, count the United States squarely among the underachievers – this year at least.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
  • Enjoy the hard choices, embrace the chaos, and let go of the underachievers that have been weighing down your roster.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Mexico are up there with the great World Cup underachievers.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • South Carolina has talent, but has been a true underachiever.
    — Joseph Goodman, al, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Don't try this at home, people, but Pitt pulls off the middle-age underachiever look perfectly.
    — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 12 July 2019
  • Texas — Finds itself on a list of the biggest underachievers in college football.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the athletes are disgruntled and others are underachievers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Here’s a look at Chris’ biggest overachievers and underachievers.
    — Jayna Bardahl, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The other names of the decade, however, are a who’s who of underachievers and busts, like Swift and Milicic.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2019
  • Get rid of, as quickly as possible, the underachievers and mopers and fool’s gold who didn’t pan out under scrutiny.
    — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 28 June 2017
  • There’s no time to waste in turning around the fortunes of the Premier League’s biggest underachievers.
    — Graham Ruthven, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Both starting goalies have been underachievers thus far, but Holtby is in the better form of late and will backstop the Caps to a home win.
    — Chris Wassel, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The only thing that is certain is that the Celtics, until proven otherwise, are front-runners and underachievers.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The Browns don’t need to dynamite the roster of last year’s 6-10 underachievers.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Arizona State is an underachiever, and the sooner Herm Edwards gets the gate, the better.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 5 July 2022
  • How can a player who has started every game that he's played in the NFL be considered an underachiever?
    — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 16 July 2017
  • To be frank, before 2021, Argentina teams were deemed losers and underachievers.
    — Paul Tenorio, The Athletic, 19 July 2024
  • Knight is 100 percent correct that the grapefruit is the underachiever of the citrus family.
    — EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
  • As a chef’s kiss, Manning plays for Texas, a yearslong egocentric underachiever that plenty of college football fans love to hate.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Sox are one of baseball biggest underachievers this season, mired in third place and on pace to win 86 games — 22 fewer than last season.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
  • To me, an underachiever in this sense would be franchises who have seen a ton of talent through multiple eras come through their doors while never winning anything of significance.
    — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2026
  • Among those drafted and developed by the Rangers, there had been Martín Pérez, who at the time was labeled an underachiever, and everybody else.
    — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Providence started the season 6-6 and was labeled the biggest underachiever in the country.
    — Kevin McNamara, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2020

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