How to Use the underworld in a Sentence

the underworld

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• Black and navy are the Romy and Michele of the underworld.
  — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Sep. 2022
• This is the multi-headed dog that guards the the gates of the underworld.
  — Mark Sovel, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
• Osiris is the Egyptian god of the underworld and Ra is the Egyptian sun god.
  — Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 11 July 2024
• Harris dressed as Hades the god of the underworld, complete with a horned crown.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• Harris dressed as Hades the god of the underworld, complete with a horned crown.
  — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
• Persephone’s whole deal is that she was held in the underworld against her will.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
• Some still have coins in their mouths, thought to help secure a safe journey to the underworld.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2023
• Cold, dark and distant, it was named after the Roman god of the underworld.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
• But this tale isn’t an account of some distressed damsel who gets swept up in the underworld.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
• It was believed this was a time when the veil was lifted between our world and the underworld to commune with the dead.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
• The myth of Persephone, who every year returns from the underworld, was used to explain the change of the seasons.
  — Elinda Labropoulou, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• Even discussing the events chronicled here is still a huge taboo in the underworld.
  — Jake Adelstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
• The god was thought to have been tricked into giving up his kingdom, and exiled to the underworld.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
• Players quickly learn that there are no good guys in the underworld and trust is a weakness.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
• The film tells a tale of a demon slayer who comes to the rescue of a young girl trapped in the underworld — and who then takes the kid on as an apprentice.
  — Mathew Scott, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
• The very next day, Fisher heads into the underworld for his first visit.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2023
• Caves were sacred to the ancient Maya, who saw them as portals to Xibalba, the underworld.
  — Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
• According to Greek myth, Cerberus is the three-headed hound that guards the entrance to the underworld.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
• Within the underworld, there’s people that have been in there longer than others.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024
• Gary has descended into the underworld in pursuit of Prince Hat, found him, and brought him home again.
  — Kristen Roupenian, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• In the stories of ancient Greece, to get to the underworld after death required a journey by boat over a river.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
• The ancient Maya saw caves as openings to the underworld and often left artifacts in them.
  — Maria Abi-Habib Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2022
• Torrio introduced Capone to Frankie Yale—and his first real taste of the underworld.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• Tanna plays the lead role of Jagruti Pathak, a scoop-hunting journalist who is caught in the nexus of the police, the underworld and the media.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Oct. 2023
• After 36 years, the ghost with the most has risen from the underworld to the silver screen for another dose of demonic mayhem.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024
• Not many players in the recent history of college football have gone to the underworld and come back alive.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• In the underworld of Nibelheim, Erda is strapped to the tree as a hydraulic apparatus pumps out the gold.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• The ancient Zapotecs believed the subterranean site to be an entrance to the underworld.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
• Harris sourced inspiration from the underworld as Hades, while his husband pulled from the deep blue and dressed as Poseidon, the god of the sea.
  — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• The film tells the story of a man who is spirited away to the underworld and held captive by a dead woman who prevents him from returning to his beloved in the land of the living.
  — Jacob Bernstein, Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025