beneath

Example Sentences

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Injured on the first night of the battle, he was resting in the pouring rain beneath a tree when Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman found him.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

It's designed to trap and entangle Russian drones and stop them hitting the vehicles beneath.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

What emerges is not an economy on the brink but one that is increasingly uneven and, in the view of many bankers, growing more fragile beneath the surface.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

That sense of erasure—of something fundamental being lost beneath the surface of change—felt familiar to me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

There was a small potato cellar beneath the kitchen floor: they enlarged the trapdoor letting into it, put a large rug on top of it, and moved the kitchen table to stand on this spot.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom