underneath
Example Sentences
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Instead, they seize the bull's horns and try to bring it to the ground, and win extra points if they can jump onto its back or crawl underneath its belly.
From Barron's • Jun. 28, 2026
As she’s gotten older, the Oscar winner has become more comfortable doing less in her performances, allowing for a fragile serenity that is belied by the anguish and anxiety roiling underneath.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026
“It’s a pretty cool situation, because the lithium that can go into those batteries can come from right underneath the ground in which they stand,” said Teague Egan, the founder and CEO of EnergyX.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026
The surface of the water offered a clearer picture of what was above it—the sky, the monuments—than what was underneath.
From Slate • Jun. 19, 2026
In the pointed end of it, underneath the brown hairy-looking fiber, I saw what looked like two small black eyes and a tiny mouth.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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"Eleven"
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: under-
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