What is "underlining"

Usage examples of "underlining".

Life, is used to inexplicable underlining that turns out to be dog hairs, and apparent shifts from print to Braille where someone overdue for a forepaw nail trimming has checked my copy, but the printouts of my articles about Bobbie and Margaret, retrieved from the floor after the break-in, looked as if they had been used for paper-training.

In her suburban, Surrey-villa life she would let it be known that she herself was a Beaman (from Ascot, as she would always say – the Ascot Beamans, with the underlining clearly audible).

And again the commentary, the punctuation, provided by Demi's forehead: bracketings, underlinings.

Not hasty check marks in pencil, like Reacher had scrawled, but neat underlinings done with a fountain pen and a beveled ruler held away from the paper so the ink wouldn't smudge.

The entry of a senator’s son into a South Carolina college would have put Dilman into the news, underlining his Negroness and differentness to his constituents, and this would have been a political detriment rather than an asset to him, and harmed the Negro cause in general.

Her handwriting and underlinings, in scratches of blue lightning on the pad's polycrystalline surface, crowded the computer-generated script she had dialed in from the board.

The smears, smudges, underlinings, and ossified toast scintillae left by their previous owners may strike daintier readers as a little icky, like secondhand underwear.

She wanted to use language as the dolphin tutors seemed to among themselves, a stream of bright thoughts with warm shadows underlining, something the computer could never capture but which she sensed through an empathic interface her teachers vehemently denied.

A person could even code a written text, just by underlining words or letters, and he could do it even without a pencil.