How to Use underperform in a Sentence

underperform

verb
  • The report shows which schools are underperforming.
  • Buy But even with the change at the helm, Phoenix has underperformed.
    — Shakeia Taylor, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Now he's been tasked to try to do the same thing for the long underperforming Miller High Life Theatre.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The largest share of voters said Ms. Harris had done so, and the largest share said Mr. Biden had underperformed.
    — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • Choo, 35, has underperformed and is in the fifth year of a seven-year contract.
    — Matt Breen, Philly.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • To be sure, these type of funds do tend to underperform when the market rallies.
    — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Thus, the stock is likely to underperform the S&P500 over the next month (twenty-one trading days).
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The team underperformed, weighed down by their young non-talents, limped into the playoffs, beat the Kings and lost to the Lakers.
    — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Often, stocks that underperform in the prior year will have more room to grow in the current year.
    — David Rae, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • There is a good chance that the stock will continue to underperform the market for some time.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • In the year-to-date period, Chevron’s stock has underperformed the market with a 2.3% gain.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The Legend of Chun-Li, which underperformed at the box office.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
  • And on the flip side of that, are places where Trump underperformed Romney places where the Democrats can overperform?
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 4 June 2018
  • This works the other way, too, with teams that underperform one season seeing a jump in wins the next.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2021
  • After the project underperformed, she was dropped from that label and had to move back to Missouri.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The stock has underperformed its peers, sliding more than 30% this year.
    — Jason Del Rey, Fortune Asia, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Since then the stock has underperformed the index by nearly 250%.
    — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Solo underperformed at the box office, and the sequels that were seeded in the movie never came to fruition.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Friday has the best chance to underperform on heat as clouds and showers are more prevalent.
    — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The duo’s history of underperforming with their season on the line must change for the Leafs to beat the Senators in Game 6.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • And those folks that don’t embrace that mantra tend to underperform over long periods of time.
    — Vulture, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Bean was traded to the Dodgers after underperforming with the Tigers.
    — Victoria Edel, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The Dodgers’ offense has underperformed, ranking outside the top 10 in baseball in runs scored and wRC+.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The two-level big box store, a former Montgomery Ward, has underperformed and will close April 5.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, underperforming swaths of it should be allowed to fail.
    — Dan K. Eberhart For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 21 May 2020
  • At that point, no one would question whether ASU had underperformed.
    — Greg Moore, azcentral, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The Target was one of a dozen underperforming stores the retailer closed around the country.
    — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • One caveat: Even if strategists feel good about the market as a whole, there's room for shares in certain sectors to underperform.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The two sides face off again, on Tuesday, in what is being billed as a crunch match for underperforming China.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But what happens when one of those peers underperforms?
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 7 May 2025

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