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Example sentences for "below"

Lexicographically close words:
belongings; belongs; beloued; beloved; belovyd; belowe; bels; belt; belted; belting
  1. He was placed in the wine vaults below the castle, had heavy fetters on his hands and feet, and sat for days in a crunched position.

  2. The figure below represents a gigantic granite head, found near the volcano of Tuxtla, in the Mexican State of Vera Cruz, at Caxapa.

  3. The stature of the Mandans is rather below the ordinary size of man, with beautiful symmetry of form and proportion, and wonderful suppleness and elasticity.

  4. The illustration below represents our of these in the valley of the Mancos, in the south-western corner of Colorado.

  5. The first illustration below is taken from a stucco relief found in a temple at Palenque, Central America.

  6. I had carried above and below the furniture of the ship.

  7. The discovery of bronze, and the knowledge of how to make it, may, as a mere intellectual effort, be regarded as rather above than below the effort which is involved in the discovery and use of iron.

  8. Below these, again, was "the great plain of Atlantis.

  9. He created all that exists below the heavens.

  10. The circle below is not significant, for there are many circular figures in the Maya alphabet.

  11. The cut below it represents the only implement of the Bronze Age yet found containing an inscription.

  12. In the cut given below we see a face that might be duplicated among the old men of any part of Europe.

  13. A long string of lights shot across the gloomy landscape below them, and a whistle came upward from the earth with startling distinctness.

  14. The ground below the almost impenetrable palmetto was deep mud.

  15. Below the air-ship was a great splotch of black shadow, stretching away on all sides as far as the eye could reach.

  16. Below stretched Washington Square, almost as desolately empty as in those days when, instead of asphalt and trees and fountain, it held only the many graves of the pauper dead.

  17. She was sitting before the fire in the rough chair which was usually occupied by the old woman and her eyes were fixed on the flaring logs and the white ashes below them.

  18. Far below us lay the outspread Mediterranean, blue beyond description and upon her placid bosom sailboats shrunk to the size of swallows and yachts seemed no larger than nursery toys.

  19. Sky and sea sparkled in a diamond clarity, and below me on the beach patiently waited the dignitaries of my tribe in festal regalia.

  20. My captor should have left me in my loft that day and should himself have remained below where he could watch for possible intrusion.

  21. The fighting went on below where the frantic, terror-stricken fellows swarmed and grappled and swayed and disabled each other in the effort to gain the ladder.

  22. Below the Endeavour, the party encountered similar difficulties to those that dogged poor Kennedy's footsteps -- impenetrable scrub and steep ravines.

  23. Rudall this time went south of the head of the Oakover, and penetrated the dry spinifex country below the Tropic.

  24. Austin pushed on ahead of the main body, and struck the river twenty-five miles below their previous crossing, to make the tantalising discovery that the pools of water on which they had fixed their hopes were hopelessly salt.

  25. He reported that the Castlereagh River must have suddenly turned to the north below where Oxley crossed it, for he had been unable to find it.

  26. It yielded to the footstep, and below was soft mud, which rapidly grew so boggy as to stop their progress.

  27. It flowed into the Nicholson, and both Leichhardt and Gregory had crossed below the confluence.

  28. If you want to drive, you must go a quarter of a mile higher up, just below the Pool.

  29. The conscience was not above asking that, but it was not below feeling an intolerable shame even without the discovery that it suggested as her punishment.

  30. Below them in the valley lay the little Blent, sparkling in the sunshine of a summer afternoon, and beyond the river, facing them on the opposite bank, no more perhaps than five hundred yards away, was Blent Hall.

  31. Below Landrecies the depth of the river is from 6 to 7 feet, while its breadth is 50 feet; it is nowhere fordable.

  32. In most cases the temperature of the water has been below 40°.

  33. Up to the present it has been below these figures.

  34. This estimate was far below our requirements, whilst the actual receipts fell far short of it.

  35. Flowing past Maubeuge it enters Belgium below Jeumont and traverses thence, in a north-easterly direction, one of the most important industrial districts of Belgium.

  36. Then she suddenly found that she could see nothing; the people below were blurred images.

  37. Below them was the house, with its walled garden and the blossom-laden orchard.

  38. The rose-bushes under the window hung dripping under their load of moisture, each spray shedding a constant shower on the spray below it.

  39. The finger-marks of decay and death are below and above and all around in all its domain.

  40. On its eastern face, and immediately below the globe, are inscribed these words, "The Field is the World.

  41. The thumping, deafening boom of them there at the base of the chalk cliffs below him.

  42. And below her breath, she added: "You mustn't be too hard on Andreyvitch, Gregory.

  43. From below him came the repeated warning roar of the waves.

  44. The pounding of them on the beach below him vibrated in his ears.

  45. Overhead the cloud splotched blue gray sky, and below him the changing, motion pulled, current swirling depths of the blue green sea.

  46. But before he could speak further the shrill scream of a frightened child came from the campus below the ridge.

  47. Just below him, where the current turns, the quiet waters were lapping about a ledge of rock.

  48. THE MAN BELOW THE SMOKE And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

  49. Elinor Wream, I'd rather see you helpless up here with the hungriest wild beast between us that ever tore a human form to pieces than to see you in that quiet water below the shallows.

  50. Dennie and Vincent sprang to the very edge of the bluff, powerless to save, as Tom Gresh and Bond Saxon were swept around the curve below the Corral.

  51. It struck the snake just below the head, half severing it from the body.

  52. They said about town the next day that it was the peacefulest face ever seen below a coffin lid.

  53. Stand in the middle, Trench, and don't let them get down stream below you.

  54. Below the shallows the whirlpool was glistening all treacherously smooth and level under the moonbeams.

  55. Below was the artistic beauty of the rotunda, where the evening shadows were deepening.

  56. Elinor did not speak, but with a smile made room for him beside her at the window, and the two looked long at the deepening grandeur of the heavens and the misty shadows of heliotrope and silver darkening softly to the twilight below them.

  57. A less severe bluff crosses the open part of the peninsula, reaching the hither side of the river below the sharp bend.

  58. A tenderly green world it was now, all blossom-decked, and blown across by the gentle May zephyrs, with nothing harsh nor cruel in it, unless the rushing river down below the shallows might seem so.

  59. From Rouse's Point we proceeded to a picturesque point which jutted into the lake below Chazy Landing, and was sheltered by a grove of trees into which we hauled the Mayeta.

  60. The canoe being water-logged, settled below the surface, the high points of the ends occasionally emerging from the water.

  61. A few miles below Mr. Gallup's estate the canoe entered upon the broad waters of Albemarle Sound, and at dusk I approached Roanoke Island.

  62. Twenty-two miles below Pot Bluff, Bull Creek enters the Waccamaw from the Peedee River.

  63. After crossing Salem Cove, and passing its southern point, Elsinborough, five miles and a half below Fort Delaware, the inhospitable marshes became wide and desolate, warning me to secure a timely shelter for the night.

  64. The river enters the head of the sound six or eight miles below Pungo Ferry.

  65. Beach's cottage, at Markus Hook, some twenty miles below Philadelphia, and on the same side of the river.

  66. Soon he was scraping her hull below the gunwale, where the muddy water of the bay had left a thin coat of sediment which was now dry.

  67. We passed Mrs. Goodman's farm and log buildings on the left bank, just below Island No.

  68. This bridge was twenty miles below Piraway, and from it by land to a settlement on Little River, which empties into the Atlantic, was a distance of only five miles.

  69. In the morning the professor kindly assisted me, and we climbed the high bank of the canal with the canoe upon our shoulders, putting it into the water below the first two locks.

  70. As the inspector said, it was not worth while wasting any time in looking for earlier traces of footsteps below those marks.

  71. I must speak to you for a moment on a matter of some importance," said Challis to the little figure below him, and as he spoke he looked over the child's head at the child's mother.

  72. He was dressed in a little jacket-suit, and wore a linen collar; the knickerbockers, loose and badly cut, fell a little below the knees.

  73. Where two seals are affixed below the signature one may contain a classic aphorism, like TAI BI FU GEN (the truly beautiful is indescribable) or CHU YO (keep the middle path).

  74. In this latter lovely subject the white chrysanthemums are huddling below the protecting snow shelter of rice straw, one or two of the flowers peeping out, their leaves being reddish on the rim and light green within.

  75. Most unfortunate blank, for this is becoming oratory, but somebody from below has seized the squire by the leg.

  76. The wide river flowed below it, and the pastures so wondrously green in the morning sun were dotted with fat cattle and sheep.

  77. Mr. Ives owned a small mill on Coniston Water below the town.

  78. Mr. Bixby, in a voice of thanksgiving, as the turmoil below began again.

  79. Jethro walked into the office, leaving Jake below with Mr. Sherman; and Senator Hartington was very glad he had not made the overtures.

  80. The members below raised their heads, and some clutched the seats in front of them and looked up at the high windows.

  81. Then she went below and gathered up the trinkets which had been lying on the floor since Rebecca dropped them there at her husband's orders, and Lord Steyne went away.

  82. When the decks are cleared for action we go below and wait meekly.

  83. While she and Osborne were having their delightful tete-a-tete above stairs, old Mrs. Sedley and Captain Dobbin were conversing below upon the state of the affairs, and the chances and future arrangements of the young people.

  84. About the little Rawdon, if nothing has been said all this while, it is because he is hidden upstairs in a garret somewhere, or has crawled below into the kitchen for companionship.

  85. He heard a laugh from the Marquis in the inner room (who was amused by this free and artless exhibition of Becky's temper) and fled down below to his friends of the kitchen, bursting in an agony of grief.

  86. And the old man not only let his house to the Colonel but officiated as his butler whenever he had company; Mrs. Raggles operating in the kitchen below and sending up dinners of which old Miss Crawley herself might have approved.

  87. Of course, after such a peremptory order as this, Miss Sharp, the governess, received commands to dine with the illustrious company below stairs.

  88. The one exception was Alice, the under housemaid, a young fair-haired girl, who stated that during the night she had distinctly heard a sound like the low creaking of light shoes on the landing below where they slept.

  89. Let us lose no time, or perhaps the constable on duty below or one of the plain-clothes men may come prying in here.

  90. His leg was broken, and I chased him right through the rushes down below in the furze brake at Coole.

  91. On one side of it runs Coole, its trees rich with leafy branches; upon the other stretches a common, green and soft, with a grand glimpse of the ocean far down below it.

  92. The rain has ceased, but during its reign has extinguished the dying sun, which has disappeared far below the horizon.

  93. A breath from the sleeping world of flowers below comes up to the balcony and bathes the lovers in its sweets.

  94. The most obnoxious accident which has yet befallen me, the most wanton blow below the belt which Fate has ever dealt me, is buried beneath the snows of twenty years.

  95. If I only knew why she works below nine hundred I might make it work when I speed her up.

  96. The rise of the tide is about four feet, and the water is fresh for forty miles below the town.

  97. For choice, there are the water frontages below the town or up the Parramatta river, which is lined with pretty houses, whose inhabitants come up to Sydney every morning in small river steamers.

  98. The latter number is considerably below the average.

  99. Below it is uninteresting, and chiefly remarkable for the number and variety of the perfumes which arise from the manufactories on its banks.

  100. The two South Australian colleges and other leading New South Wales establishments fall far below this standard.


  101. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "below" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    after; behind; below; compartment; down; downgrade; downhill; downright; downward; following; least; less; next; since; subordinate; under; underneath


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    below the; below white; below zero