underbelly

That wicket exposed the tender underbelly of Essex's batting and revived fears of a battle against relegation in the run-in to the Division One season.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

“Showing your underbelly in that kind of environment is very unappealing,” says Panio Gianopoulos, a writer and editor in Westchester County, N.Y.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

“He takes us inside the football factory and shows us the underbelly that sports writers never know, from the locker room to the high-end living,” Atkins notes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

While the now-replaced aircraft sported a blue and white exterior, the new aircraft has a navy blue underbelly, thin red stripe and blue upper body.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

With a serrated knife, she clipped the fins, then turned the fish over, its underbelly facing her, and sliced it expertly from the tail to the gills.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Oseguera González’s counsel responded by telling jurors they should be skeptical of key witnesses “who have made that deal with the government” — an arrangement that he called “one of the underbellies of criminal justice.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024

With creamy white underbellies and an unmistakable crown of shaggy feathers, a Philippine eagle makes a regal impression.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 28, 2021

The clouds that brooded over Knoxville on Thursday looked like 4-8 clouds, and some had dark underbellies, making them clearly 0-8-in-the-Southeastern Conference clouds.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2017

House mice have solid colors, but deer mice range from gray to reddish brown, with white on their underbellies and sides of their tails.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2012

Thunder grumbled over the ocean and lightning lit the underbellies of the clouds, flashing from sea to sky and back again.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi