underbelly
Example Sentences
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And while Congress, Europe and law may hold no terrors for our president, we all know ridicule hits him in his soft, white underbelly.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
When a softer touch was needed, such as on her sensitive underbelly, she would use the smooth handle end.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
In “Gotham at War,” Mr. Wallace takes us on a fascinating excursion into both the now lost yet somehow familiar human superstructure, and the sometimes sordid underbelly, of the city we know today.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Martin wrote it, they said, to explore the underbelly of the “troubled teen” industry, particularly the camps that became popular in the 1990s, but in a way that is almost as semi-autobiographical as “Feel Good.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025
That’s what you see, Mariam jo, he had said, the dark in their underbelly.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
