underside

Example Sentences

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The brain tumour, he said, was like "a monster with tentacles spreading across the underside of my brain the width of a baseball".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Scientists discovered that the shape of the underside of the ice shelf strongly affects how seawater circulates below it.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2026

It was all a stimulating change from opera-house productions, which often lean on 18th-century elegance instead of exploring the seamy underside and corruption of the demimonde that is at the heart of the piece.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Max Beier almost put Dortmund ahead in the first half but his effort was deflected by Denis Vavro's last-ditch block onto the underside of the bar.

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

It was crow colored—black, but with petrol sheens of green and purple and deep blue—but the underside of its wings was red.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell