How do you use Undersell in a sentence? See 5 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like undercut or sell, plus the exact meaning.
Undersell meaning
- To sell goods for a lower price than a competitor.
- To sell something for less than its value.
- To put forward an idea, or to market a new product (or oneself), with insufficient enthusiasm or excessive understatement.
Using Undersell
- The main meaning on this page is: To sell goods for a lower price than a competitor. | To sell something for less than its value. | To put forward an idea, or to market a new product (or oneself), with insufficient enthusiasm or excessive understatement.
- Useful related words include: undercut, sell.
Context around Undersell
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Undersell
- In this selection, "undersell" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, company, themselves and smuggled stand out and add context to how "undersell" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include be an undersell and did he undersell it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "undersell" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with undersell
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He never oversold a race, but neither did he undersell it. (11 words)
The podcast duo of Haines and Korey then travel to Laurie Strode’s compound, and that may be an undersell. (20 words)
They are the only band I have ever interviewed who undersell themselves, repeatedly underestimating how many tickets and albums they have sold. (22 words)
Yeah, it's amazing when someone else has done the R&D work and initial product design and marketing that you can have a Chinese factory kick out knockoffs and undersell them. (32 words)
Meanwhile, Parliament passed the Tea Act to lower the price of taxed tea exported to the colonies in order to help the East India Company undersell smuggled Dutch tea. (29 words)
They are the only band I have ever interviewed who undersell themselves, repeatedly underestimating how many tickets and albums they have sold. (22 words)
Example sentences (5)
He never oversold a race, but neither did he undersell it.
The podcast duo of Haines and Korey then travel to Laurie Strode’s compound, and that may be an undersell.
They are the only band I have ever interviewed who undersell themselves, repeatedly underestimating how many tickets and albums they have sold.
Yeah, it's amazing when someone else has done the R&D work and initial product design and marketing that you can have a Chinese factory kick out knockoffs and undersell them.
Meanwhile, Parliament passed the Tea Act to lower the price of taxed tea exported to the colonies in order to help the East India Company undersell smuggled Dutch tea.