underling

Example Sentences

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Hook and the kids engage in sword fights, and Hook orders an underling to “execute” a group of small children he’s locked up and sends Wendy to walk the plank.

From Washington Post

The film often cuts abruptly from one setting to the next, bringing into sharp focus Philippe’s chameleonic — but increasingly tortured — shifts in personality, from aggrieved underling to cruel boss to failing husband and father.

From New York Times

Berlusconi remains at the helm of Forza Italia, the center-right party he created when he jumped into politics in the early 1990s, though the day-to-day running of the party has been left to underlings.

From Washington Times

Everything you describe — fearful underlings, disengaged managers, unchecked verbal abuse — points to a dysfunctional system that has developed like a cyst to protect this toxic individual.

From Washington Post

Shah was part of a long line of Trump underlings who passed back and forth between Trump’s orbit and Fox’s on- and off-air ranks.

From Washington Post