How to Use undersell in a Sentence

undersell

verb
  • We will not be undersold.
  • They promised to undersell their competitors.
  • In fact, that is underselling it.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • To say this book has been the talk of the town would undersell its current buzzy dominance.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 May 2025
  • Also, do not undersell the absence of Partey in the build-up.
    — Art De Roché, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • If anything, investors think the Fed might have undersold how high rates need to go.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023
  • But at this point, even that might be underselling what Scheffler has been doing.
    — Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 June 2025
  • Burke might have been underselling the power aspect.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
  • This isn’t a week to undersell, overgive, or people-please your way into crumbs.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 16 Nov. 2025
  • But for this young country, such stately branding was underselling the place.
    — Jack Hitt, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Don’t undersell the quality of its core.
    — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • And that number, some academics suggest, may be underselling it.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2024
  • That might be underselling it; these Ravens might be the NFL’s best team.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • This is just stupid how successful this is, but that’s really underselling it.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2025
  • There was no underselling the importance of the play in either clubhouse.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
  • But the effects of a cap would be so broad that any single talking point is liable to undersell the impact.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • More bullish investors may wonder if Frank Lowy has undersold.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2017
  • News of Spectacles underselling is the icing on the cake of a rough year for Snap.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2017
  • If anything, the preview undersold it.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But that perception may vastly undersell the scale of change that AI is about to bring.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The Texas offense has been the media focal point this year but that undersells how strong the defense is as well.
    — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Not to undersell the body shots, but Zhang didn’t look like a man who wanted to push through adversity.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
  • But the numbers still undersell the kind of dynamism Melton has shown when attacking the paint.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This episode starts to bring all the plot threads together without underselling the characters.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The front office is incredibly wary about the prospect of underselling its assets.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
  • With eleven Top 40 hits to his name, Money is slightly undersold as a rock artist.
    — Scot Bertram, National Review, 23 Sep. 2019
  • After two games, the Tar Heels might have been underselling their potential.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Frost spent much of spring camp underselling his team to reporters, hoping to avoid interest from schools looking to poach talent.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2025
  • Cava is already one of your go-to sparkling wines for brunch mimosas but don't undersell this Spanish bubbly.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Even that alarming figure would appear to undersell the local problem.
    — Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025

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