Example Sentences

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Arancini are fabulous, their rice centers a perfect blend of saffron-scented rice and stretchy mozzarella, their underliner a slick of Calabrian chile oil.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2021

“She makes a banquet of her objections to parenthood. If you are an underliner, as I am, your pen may go dry.”

From New York Times • May 10, 2018

An underliner of Italian parsley, dandelion greens and baby kale adds a pleasing bite to the fish.

From Washington Post • May 29, 2015

If you’re an underliner, in other words, have a pencil sharpener to hand when reading Adam Phillips.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2013