underground

Example Sentences

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Then it would need to be mechanically excavated from deep underground in the middle of hostile territory and could weigh 1,000 pounds.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Then there is Qeshm, the largest island in the Gulf and 75 times bigger than Kharg, where Iran is suspected of housing underground missile and drone sites.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

KoBold probed deeper underground than others had looked and discovered a vast deposit of high-grade copper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

A picture of the base by the commercial satellite company Planet Labs on the second day of the war showed three destroyed vehicles outside tunnels leading into the underground facility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

But I cry now—for the first time in years—in the underground corridor of the Ghanaian underworld, all while the ancestral spirit of my grandmother protects me from a trickster god.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer