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Example sentences for "underground"

Lexicographically close words:
undergoes; undergoing; undergone; undergraduate; undergraduates; undergrowth; underhand; underhanded; underived; underlaid
  1. Government officials also are worried about 16% unemployment, although many people listed as unemployed work in the underground economy.

  2. Indeed, the underground storehouse of a wigwam housekeeper was full of good things to eat.

  3. Underground plant food must be liquid in nature.

  4. For these underground plants produce new plants as surely as seeds do.

  5. Sometimes we are much troubled with underground insects at work.

  6. The bindweed has a creeping root, wild garlic has a bulb, and such forms are always producing new forms underground while the seed above the ground is able to do the same thing.

  7. The underground part of such weeds must be destroyed.

  8. But even greater persistency should be exercised in destroying the underground portion.

  9. The body would not be put underground for a long, long time, and when it was the Siva stones would not go to earth with it.

  10. There is also an underground passage, executed by those same individuals, which connects with the Paris sewers.

  11. There are three sets of these channels, one above the other, and we do not find the water till we get to the bottom of the third underground story, so to speak.

  12. Let us then look a little at the underground foundation of all this beautiful earth.

  13. There is one place in this system of underground channels where the dripping from the roof of the upper channels has cut a great well hole many feet in diameter perpendicularly down through the whole system to a great depth.

  14. The great Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, which is said to have 200 miles of underground passages, has been entirely worn out by the action of running water.

  15. The Humboldt River in Nevada, which empties into a small lake of the same name, and lies at the foot of the Humboldt Mountains, is said to have an underground outlet.

  16. Was he going to retire behind his wall of reserve from which their venture underground had routed him?

  17. There was a damp underground smell such as Val had noted in the cellar of the house, but the air was fresh enough.

  18. He alone knew the underground ways as well as he knew the garden.

  19. Meanwhile, behind the screen of the lights the bank robbers were bringing in their gold by motor and hiding the sacks down in a network of underground passageways that I also discovered--and traversed.

  20. Here were these underground tunnels leading, "if you kept to the right," from a field out Saltfleet way, to the very heart of the Fens themselves.

  21. Cleek, as they mounted the rough steps and came out into the open air, with the free sky above them and a fine wind blowing that soon dispelled the effects of their underground journey.

  22. Some of it gradually seeps down through the ground to an underground stream.

  23. So people have to get their water from underground or go to lakes for it.

  24. By allowing the electricity from the trolley wire to flow down through an underground coil of wire, a motorman can open a switch in the track.

  25. This dissolves in the underground water, and when the water bubbles up from the ground and the pressure is released, the carbon dioxid foams out of the water; it effervesces like the charged water at a soda fountain.

  26. When there are no springs near, people raise the water from underground with suction pumps.

  27. After rain has soaked into the sides of mountains it runs underground and rises, at lower levels, in springs.

  28. They were either in great haste, or else did not wish any more investigations to be made of this underground region.

  29. An underground hall of four hundred feet spread before them, in which were assembled a number of men.

  30. The labour of hewing this immense underground chamber from the solid rock must have been prodigious, unless originally the excavators had found natural caverns here.

  31. I see below the archway where it issues from the underground recesses of our establishment; and there stands a bust, in serious expectation that some one will walk out and saunter down among the rocks; but no one ever does.

  32. It is turning society over, and putting the best underground for a fertilizer.

  33. The feeble flicker of the tallow-candle does not at all dispel, but creates, illusions, and magnifies all the rich possibilities of this underground treasure-house.

  34. It was hard to think of anywhere else; one needed a map, one of those easy maps that were pasted on the walls of Underground stations.

  35. Then I turned down Sloane Street and made for the Underground station.

  36. Down wooden steps for over a hundred feet the weary infantrymen stumbled, and finally a wonderful underground world presented itself.

  37. A hot meal was soon prepared, and the weary Tommies soon fell asleep, in spite of the great heat and oppressive “fugginess” of their underground dwelling.

  38. This periodical disappearance of the cisco has led to much foolish discussion as to the probability of their returning by an underground passage to Lake Michigan during the periods of their absence.

  39. Below the former is the entrance to the underground prison built by Philip of Alsace.

  40. A secret staircase was also discovered here which led to two underground passages branching off in opposite directions.

  41. So Belehwan the froward abode king in his father's room and his affairs prospered, what while the young Melik Shah lay in the underground dungeon four full-told years, till his charms faded and his favour changed.

  42. Accordingly, the trooper bought him a house near at hand and made therein an underground passage communicating with his mistress's house.

  43. So Belehwan granted them this and imprisoned the boy in an underground dungeon and straitened him.

  44. So he bade bring him forth of the underground dungeon and caused him draw near to him and saw his case.

  45. They are up against the rocks, and the barn or cellar with the winepress is hewn in the rock, and has many underground passages which lead all over everywhere, and you can hear the spring gurgle under them at certain places.

  46. With active mind and practised hands he contemplated breaking through from the underground into the ditch of the fort and worked steadily, assisted by two more, night after night until they had reached a last door.

  47. They had attempted to escape by an underground passage leading out to the open.

  48. No parole had been given, as a matter of fact, but the commandant was pleased to say so, and thought it warranted his committing them to the underground cachot although all were better fitted to become patients in a hospital.

  49. In this case the mouths of the underground main pipe-drains are stopped up, and the water in them and the secondary drains thus caused to stand back until it has risen sufficiently near the surface.

  50. All these just mentioned differ from those formerly named in the nature of the underground stem, which forms a bulb and not a strict creeping rhizome as in I.

  51. The prime requisite for a candidate to underground existence is a negative reaction to light.

  52. The eyes continued to degenerate and the tactile organs to increase after permanent entrance to underground waters.

  53. Chilton has made the same observation on the underground animals of New Zealand.

  54. The eyes were degenerating and the tactile organs developing beyond the normal before the permanent underground existence began.

  55. It is found chiefly at the mouths of underground streams, but also in the underground streams themselves.

  56. In such cases the underground individuals are paler than the others.

  57. A revolt occurred in Pentonville Road, opposite King's Cross Underground Station, which ended in a fierce and terrible fray.

  58. This cave passes underground for several hundred yards, and terminates at an underground river, which flows to the north-east in a great stream, and is supposed to come out at the eye of the Moi river, three miles away.

  59. That was to prepare the way for me, in case of need, among the vast army of those who work underground and know their chief but do not know each other.

  60. Your servants have gone by the Underground Railway--to France.

  61. Then he told her about the Underground Railway--not as he had told it to me, to scare, but as a proof of power and forethought.

  62. And supposing you get back to St Anton, you'll find the house shut up and the travellers gone hours before by the Underground Railway.

  63. I will not conceal from you that the service of our Underground Railway is a little irregular from England and France.

  64. We call it the Underground Railway, and you will have the privilege of studying its working.

  65. She will come with me when I ask her, and we shall be a merry party in the Underground Express.

  66. I've been watching your Underground Railway for quite a time.

  67. But it might be difficult to carry an unwilling woman over the first stages of the Underground Railway.

  68. You'll travel to France by the Underground Railway and there be handed over to the French Government.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underground" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstruse; alienated; alienation; apostasy; backstairs; beclouded; blind; branch; breakaway; buried; bushwhacker; casual; clandestine; close; clouded; collaborator; concealed; covert; difference; differing; disaccord; disagreeing; disagreement; disapproval; disparity; dissatisfaction; dissension; dissenting; dissidence; dissident; diversity; electric; elevated; embankment; express; feeder; feline; flier; flyer; freight; freighter; funicular; furtive; guerrilla; hidden; interurban; irregular; junction; latent; limited; line; local; monorail; mysterious; nonconforming; nonconformity; obscure; obscured; occult; opposing; opposition; partisan; privy; quiet; rail; railroad; railway; recondite; recusant; rejection; repudiation; resistance; roadbed; roadway; schismatical; secession; secluded; secret; secretly; sectarian; sectary; sequestered; shifty; shuttle; sidetrack; siding; skulking; slinky; sly; sneaking; sneaky; special; stealthy; subversive; subway; sunken; surreptitious; switchback; terminal; terminus; track; train; tram; trestle; trunk; tube; turnout; undercover; underground; underhanded; unknown; unobtrusive; variance; withdrawal