How to Use underwater in a Sentence

underwater

adjective
  • So some of the parts to the, the coast would be underwater.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • The vast portion of the feed pile will be underwater, out of view.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Such a rise would put many of the world's coastal cities underwater.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
  • The code to open the safe is underwater, so every agent has to dive down and memorize a part of the code.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The plan highlights using hydrophones to hear and record the sounds of the underwater world.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The body was found in an area that would’ve been about 100 feet underwater and hundreds of yards from shore decades ago.
    al, 26 July 2022
  • To be sure, the U.S. could clear in a matter of weeks any underwater mines from the strait that block oil tankers from passing through.
    Byjason Ma, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2024
  • In the underwater fight near the end, my first take was quite different than what ended up in the film.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In South Sudan, parts of the country have been underwater now for four years.
    Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The five-armed figure of many starfish has to be one of the most iconic underwater curiosities in the world.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • It was spotted in a new underwater mountain range off the coast of Chile.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
  • The tiles on the bottom are about 2.2 meters underwater, which is about 7 feet deep.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • While the underwater world had been evolving and changing, so had the above-water.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Although rains stopped three days ago, large swaths of the country remain underwater, and the main rivers, the Indus and the Swat, are still swollen.
    Munir Ahmed, ajc, 30 Aug. 2022
  • At the time, the other aircraft was about 21 feet underwater.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Somewhere in the middle of the ocean, there’s an underwater grove of palm trees whose fruits, when ripe, fall upwards.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2025
  • Parts of Asia’s largest cities are projected to be underwater by the end of the century.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The underwater call of the sperm whale, the earth’s loudest, registers at 230 decibels.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The trailer is underwater in likes/dislikes on YouTube, something that isn’t the case for anything else from the show.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The East Coast is underwater, the West afire and the highways in-between staggered with urban refugees.
    John Hildebrand, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The landing craft had at one point been so far underwater that the park service sent divers to the site beginning in 2006.
    Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
  • Speed down slides, go on underwater treasure hunts and float down the 1,005-foot lazy river.
    Robin Soslow, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
  • About 80% of Falmouth will be underwater, even as high as 10 feet in some portions of town.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 12 May 2022
  • The woman wasn’t able to hoist herself up, went underwater, and was not able to resurface, the statement said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • Visiting the lake, Chavez walked on sandy ground that used to sit underwater.
    Ian James, AZCentral.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • At the same time, much of the boardwalk ideally would have been underwater.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • Shortly after, a large wave crashed down on the man, pulling him underwater and out of the woman’s line of sight, Baxter said.
    Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The fact that the stone bridge was underwater provokes the question of its preservation.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The result was a positive one, with thousands of sharks saved, plus a fascinating underwater spectacle unique to the area.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 9 July 2025
  • Dancing With Sharks has five divers competing to put together an amazing underwater routine — with sharks, of course.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 4 July 2025

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