underworld

Example Sentences

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The country has a sprawling underworld of clandestine artisanal miners.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

He drank tall glasses of orange juice in seedy dives as he infiltrated an underworld of bank-robbing clowns and bird-obsessed mobsters.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

He had no interest in mining and no experience confronting the Mexican underworld.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

Two nights later, prosecutors say, Jones was dishing about his friend to the gambling underworld.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

High honor came to him in that part of Krete for wealth and ease, and sons born for renown, before the death-bearing Keres drew him down to the underworld.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer