How to Use underground in a Sentence

underground

1 of 3 adverb

• They had been living underground as fugitives.
• Or, at least, the sort of underground.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2026
• Most of the film was shot underground in Iran.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026
• The modern world drives you back underground in a weird way.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
• As soon as a cold wind blew in, the lizards burrowed underground to lay eggs.
  — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
• And plants can grow deep-reaching roots to get a drink from far underground.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• These small mammals spend most of their lives underground and are rarely seen.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
• All this because there may not be enough free water left underground for long.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
• Spend your Friday night underground and have a great time, rain or shine.
  — Elizabeth Green, AJC.com, 25 June 2026
• Three-and-a-half years of sleeping underground for the sake of safety.
  — Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 6 Aug. 2025
• The second quake was less than 8 miles underground.
  — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 7 June 2026
• Maybe underground in a dark chamber, breaking rocks by hand?
  — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
• There’s a scene where the miners are all working underground.
  — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
• One approach is to bury the pots underground, and mound soil or mulch over top to cover the graft union.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2025
• This time, the danger moves underground.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 11 Dec. 2025
• Cicadas are winged insects with red eyes that spend most of their lives underground, emerge to mate, and then die.
  — Zach Tuggle, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2024
• The snakes spend much of their time underground in the burrows of pocket gophers.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
• Miners are people who spent their lives underground so this country could keep its lights on.
  — William McCool, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2026
• State officials stepped in to help the city drill deep underground to stop the leaking oil.
  — Michele Gile, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
• The carbon can then be stored in products like cement, or buried deep underground.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 31 July 2023
• Millions of bees have been living underground there.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
• When the springtime sun starts to warm the soil, things can get exciting underground.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
• The same thing happens when oil and gas are extracted from underground.
  — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
• Disco didn’t die, but it was driven underground.
  — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 7 June 2026
• Some cisterns are installed above ground, others are buried underground and out of sight.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• While death was stalking the surface, new life cut through the darkness underground.
  — Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
• Once complete, most airport trips will move underground.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
• With reddish-brown bodies, fire ants travel in swarms and build large colonies deep underground.
  — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 17 June 2026
• There were no blaring car horns or subway trains roaring underground.
  — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
• During drilling, wastewater is pumped underground, which can cause salt to dissolve.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023

underground

2 of 3 noun

• The same streets, the same underground.
  — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
• There will be an underground not just for sales, but for therapy.
  — Nick Hilden, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2022
• The beauty of a fire underground is that heat rises.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
• There’s a lot of dope underground talent and up-and-coming artists.
  — Matt Diehl, Variety, 4 Dec. 2021
• So, in the far north of the world, the soils store a lot of carbon, and there's methane underground.
  — CBS News, 9 July 2023
• But for me, just listening to that whole movement of that underground.
  — Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
• Her favorite part of sci-fi films is the resistance, the underground.
  — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• To steam the corn underground, Bex and her husband first build a fire, which heats up the dirt a few feet down.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2021
• There was always a war between the mainstream and the underground.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2022
• Reasons for living underground The first rule of both shows?
  — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2026
• Some would be tucked behind the ground-floor commercial space, with the rest underground.
  — Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2025
• The beetles winter underground, with adults emerging in late spring.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
• Dozier said all the parking for the new office and apartments would be in new underground and above the street garages.
  — Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2022
• Stinging insects have nested in a wall or underground.
  — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 16 June 2026
• Maybe Elon Musk’s plan to take traffic underground isn’t so crazy after all.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
• The process of extracting it from underground hasn’t improved much over the years, either.
  — Allison Deangelis, STAT, 29 May 2022
• Millions of Americans own the rights to oil and gas underground.
  — Jacob Orledge, ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2025
• There was a kind of anti-Franco underground in Barcelona.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025
• Household water largely comes from underground, the same aquifer that connects to the springs.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
• Phoenix has also stored water underground for use in times of emergencies.
  — Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 10 Nov. 2025
• Phoenix has also stored water underground for use in times of emergencies.
  — Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
• While rule-breaking was part of the promise of the underground, the scene came with a taste code that carried its own set of boundaries.
  — Lina Abascal, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
• For these people, there is no underground from which to resurface, no normal world to rejoin after a long night.
  — Longreads, 15 Apr. 2022
• Sibiya said the men had been killed by gas underground, their bodies carried out of the mine by colleagues and left for the police to find.
  — Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 23 Aug. 2025
• In Texas, owners have property rights to the space above the surface of their land and underground.
  — Eric Killelea, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2022
• Zayd Ayers Dohrn spent much of his childhood underground and on the run.
  — Terry Gross, NPR, 18 May 2026
• On the 25th, [my friends and I] were sleeping in the [underground] subway.
  — Vogue, 2 Mar. 2022
• On a busy weekday lunch hour, food courts in Toronto’s underground are packed with office workers.
  — Vivian Song, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
• Some of the projects are mega-mines that will extract the black rock from deep underground, a process that produces more methane than surface mining.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
• It’s planted in the fall, survives the winter underground, and gets harvested in the summer.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Oct. 2023

underground

3 of 3 adjective

• She loves the city's underground music scene.
• The drugs are supplied through an underground network.
• Begin your night at the opera and end it in an underground club.
  — Jade Moyano, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
• There are three bolts underground.
  — Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 17 June 2026
• An underground advert with the show written out in baked beans on toast.
  — Scott Bryan, Variety, 22 Mar. 2026
• This time, the hostage crisis unfolds on an underground train, not in the air.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 1 Jan. 2026
• Calla lilies spread quickly by means of fleshy underground stems known as rhizomes.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
• An underground cage filled with women.
  — Literary Hub, 31 Mar. 2026
• Why would someone dig such a bizarre underground hideout?
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 1 Feb. 2026
• The blind cavefish aren’t alone in these underground systems.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 17 Sep. 2025
• We were blessed that people still accepted us as those underground dudes that still got bars.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
• Stoptime and many of its underground peers perform out in the open despite the threat of prison.
  — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
• The company said much of the route would go through underground tunnels.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2023
• Chicago art scene — both eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene.
  — Nora Dahlia, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
• Hidden behind the vault doors, this underground cocktail bar has a true speakeasy feel.
  — Abby Price, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2026
• Meanwhile, not far away in that enormous underground world, salt is still mined every day.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
• Most lithium today comes from salty underground brines or hard rock mining.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
• There’s also a private six-car underground garage.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 27 May 2026
• Most workers also ran to an underground shelter to seek refuge.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• Our building’s underground parking area has had many thefts and mailbox break-ins.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
• An underground farm stand stocked with the recent harvest and other treats.
  — Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 10 June 2026
• It’s known for its network of churches, bell towers and underground caves.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 15 June 2026
• All the stations are underground.
  — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 7 May 2026
• The spa The 57-foot-long underground pool is a treasure.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2026
• Divers have mapped 13 acres of water so far in the caverns' underground rooms.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 June 2026
• Install underground fencing and remove food sources to keep pests out.
  — Abby Monteil, The Spruce, 19 June 2026
• The pool is fed by both an underground spring and waterfalls that are most pronounced in autumn.
  — Talia Avakian, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2026
• Spring is when ants finally begin to move from their underground colonies up to the surface.
  — Charlotte Maracina, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
• Something else must have been causing the intense underground heat.
  — Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
• An underground gallery connects the two structures.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2026