How to Use underline in a Sentence

underline

1 of 2 verb
  • His name was underlined in the book.
  • The accident underlines our need for better safety procedures.
  • In both notes, the words are underlined.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 7 May 2026
  • Please write that down and then underline it six times for no reason.
    — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Spivey jotted down the names on her note sheet, then underlined each word twice.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The numbers underline the scale of the shift.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Text could be bolded or underlined.
    — Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
  • This just underlines his status as the best defender in the game.
    — Abdul Rehman, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • But Joan does end up caring in the end, underlines Manville.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Brewster added the research helps underline and scope and the scale of the issue around the world.
    — Jamie Hailstone, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The large crowd underlines the growth of Catholicism in Africa.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Prevost then underlined that doctrine had not changed.
    — Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • That show was a hit, and underlined that Lacroix, far from retired, had plenty left to say.
    — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But the cast had to always play it straight, underlines Macfadyen.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The details of Coote’s case, heard for the first time today, underlined why.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Almost every word of text was underlined.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Prudence needs to underline the strategy, but there should be a bias to action.
    — Jonathan Fianu, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Here the strings underline the lyric’s unspoken threat and give a spiky subtext to the silky vocals.
    — Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The return of Havertz could further underline this.
    — Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The question underlines the poignancy of the current show.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Sinclair’s case underlines that the path of a teenage prodigy is rarely straightforward.
    — Gregg Evans, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • With her new novel, Waldman underlines their efforts with thick strokes.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Moore underlined that the components of this system are very mature.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This disruption, too, needs to be underlined as a serious threat.
    — Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • 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

underline

2 of 2 noun
  • The books are marked with underlines and checks in Wharton’s hand.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2018
  • As the events of recent days underline, the diplomatic shift is clear.
    — Muhammad Bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The script sounds like it was written with underlines for emphasis and no subtlety.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Strawberry and raspberry drive this fresh and snappy wine with an underline of spice.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Hoover remembers his wife kept meticulous work notes filled with highlights and underlines.
    — Elvia Malagón, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2019
  • For two reasons, both of which underline why Field’s movie is such a biting accomplishment.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The first three entries in this list underline how important code has become to winning in today’s—and tomorrow’s—business world.
    — Martin Giles, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • These underline—and in some cases are only navigable due to—that new vocal acuity.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 20 Jan. 2026
  • But the trio of artists at Wednesday’s fund-raiser underline Taylor’s interest in blues and folk artists as well as jazz.
    — Jeremy D. Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • The increase in coal use to meet the surge in energy demand for cooling underlines the need to think of innovative ways to make cooling needs more clean.
    — Simi Thambi​, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The ambiguity of the underline/strikethrough is almost certainly just a mistake by an old man in poor health who rarely had cause to write anything.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Throughout the opera, Huang’s score underlines and embodies every aspect of the drama.
    — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2025
  • The planar driver produces mids that underline just where the technology excels.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • And there are so many examples that are similar that underline the practical relevance.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • Avoid underlines, unusual bullets and text boxes.
    — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The data and lessons emerging today underline why this shift has become so critical, not just for families but for the future workforce.
    — Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Mitchell and Carter’s absences on Thursday night underline the fragility of the Eagles’ depth on defense.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Events like these underline the evolving perception of cannabis as not just recreational but as a driver of economic and scientific progress.
    — Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
  • All of this underlines why fixing the problem of affordable housing in New York City is not so simple as freezing rents.
    — Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • That’s because a low unemployment rate and hot job market underline a strong American consumer, whose spending helps drive up the cost of goods and services.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Details in the painting, however, could almost be difficult to discern - haze and mist obscure much of the painting, an underline of the growing air pollution.
    — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The spellcheck feature in Notepad is almost identical to how Word or Edge highlight misspelled words, with a red underline to clearly show mistakes.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 8 July 2024
  • Two events from the past week underline this point, which has been argued by legal scholars on all sides of the ideological spectrum since the 1930s until the present day.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • And so a quote from the paper, rules tend to use formulas or equations for the policy instrument at least as a guide – and those underlines are mine, not John’s – when making decisions.
    — WSJ, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Annotation tools include highlights, underlines, strikethroughs, and freehand drawing.
    — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
  • All hell starts breaking loose before the one-hour point, and at first these goings-on further underline the sense of homage to Williams Friedkin and Blatty’s horror classic.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The last two highlight lines alter the way Vim highlights matching parentheses by changing the highlight method to an underline instead of a big full-height cursor-emulating block.
    — Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 6 May 2026
  • Recent posts from Bluesky underline the platform’s moderation challenges and the difficulties of scaling.
    — Anisha Sircar, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • That the ambition existed at all underlines how the two most powerful bodies in world football are in a forever war for the economic and political control of the global game.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • While there isn’t enough time in the show for everyone to have a one-on-one experience with the dancer, watching an audience and cast member attempt to get in sync with each other underlines the night’s themes of connecting.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026

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