Sentence examples for to underscore with from inspiring English sources

Confronted with the horror of the ordinary, Miller railed against the place he came from, calling himself twice, in "Capricorn," "just a Brooklyn boy," as if to underscore with heavy irony his revulsion at his own origins.

This reunion is the event that President Obama chose to underscore, with his immediate and effusive comments.

The exterior has resisted the fashion, which is to underscore luxury with a kind of studied beefiness, your superiority marked literal-mindedly by the fact that you're taller and better nourished than the other cars.

A fatal accident of an 11 year-old boy scaling the fence to the polar bear pit only served to underscore difficulties with the fifty-year-old facility.

Easy for me to say -- I've never been on the receiving end of the n-word myself (incoming for me is more likely to be "dork" or "jackass"), and history has shown that people who use the n-word are often perfectly willing to underscore it with sticks and stones and whips and chains and nooses and guns and fire hoses.

Despite this, the Georgians continued to identify with the Byzantine West, rather than Islamic east, with the Georgian monarchy seeking to underscore its association with Christianity and present its position as God-given.

The son of teachers, Mr. Lichtenstein likes to underscore his points with parables.

But the senators used the question of Mr. Verniero's future to underscore their unhappiness with his testimony.

The call seemed to underscore his dissatisfaction with the current group of candidates, including Ms. Quinn, a Democrat.

To underscore that point with his players, Maddon, in spring training, handed out T-shirts bearing such aphorisms as "Do Simple Better" and "Try Not to Suck".

He uses tinting and superimposed images to underscore symbolism: Napoleon, with his raptor's eye and knife-edge profile, is repeatedly compared to an eagle.