How to Use underground in a Sentence

underground

1 of 3 adverb

• They had been living underground as fugitives.
• The hole led to an old truck trailer buried underground.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2023
• And plants can grow deep-reaching roots to get a drink from far underground.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• In the game, for instance, when Mario went underground, the score got dark and bass-heavy, a contrast with the bright, cheery above-ground world.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• The brine is then pumped back up to 8,000 feet underground, avoiding fresh-water aquifers.
  — Aaron Gettinger, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Read Next Cache of coins was hidden in a box underground for 850 years — until now.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• In the center of the complex, a brick tunnel slopes underground to an airy cellar filled with barrels of house wine.
  — Naomi Tomky, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2023
• Angelina Potopenko has been living underground since the start of the war.
  — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2023
• The carbon can then be stored in products like cement, or buried deep underground.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 31 July 2023
• The woman, who was not identified, had been trapped underground beneath the first floor of a two-story house.
  — Miharu Nishiyama, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• The same thing happens when oil and gas are extracted from underground.
  — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
• Hundreds of thousands of workers still toil underground here in some of the world’s oldest and deepest shafts.
  — Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023
• The process would capture at least 95% of the carbon dioxide and store it underground beneath the plant’s property.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2024
• All this because there may not be enough free water left underground for long.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
• Two companies have plans to keep the carbon here, at more than 4,000 feet underground surrounding the town.
  — Timothy Puko, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
• Chips break down very slowly and unless turned underground have no adverse effect on the tree.
  — oregonlive, 24 June 2023
• Later, when the cicada eggs hatch, nymphs will emerge and tunnel underground to start the broods’ cycles anew.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• The two broods will begin to emerge when the soil 8 inches underground reaches 64 degrees, and are often triggered by a warm rain.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
• Some cisterns are installed above ground, others are buried underground and out of sight.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• But the next part of the plan - to build a large tank and hold the overflow water underground and send it to Fox Metro to be treated - is estimated to cost about $100 million.
  — Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
• Those plans then changed, though the 9/11 Museum took shape in a separate space underground.
  — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2023
• The man was almost blind from being underground for so long and limped from being shot in the leg during an escape attempt.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
• This secret house comes with a hidden pool — underground.
  — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2024
• This means that not only have forests, fields and meadows been destroyed by the fires, but also the flames continue underground.
  — Thomas Krumenacker, Scientific American, 9 June 2023
• But the governor says coal can be cleaner and its CO2 emissions buried underground.
  — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
• Cementing the well in that area, about a half mile underground, would have prevented the gas release, Livingston said.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2023
• But unlike Earth, the moon isn’t likely to have these pockets of magma still active underground.
  — Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Suddenly, Freddy Krueger’s hand reaches up, grabs the mask and drags it underground.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
• During drilling, wastewater is pumped underground, which can cause salt to dissolve.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023

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underground

2 of 3 noun

• I've ridden on the New York subway, the Paris Metro, and the London Underground.
• 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
• On the 25th, [my friends and I] were sleeping in the [underground] subway.
  — Vogue, 2 Mar. 2022
• Like bootlegs of movies from Europe and the New York underground, or reams of ’60s drive-in pulp.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
• 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
• Cruel World taps into the many veins of goth-rock, new wave and post-punk that ruled airwaves and the underground in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• There’s a lot of dope underground talent and up-and-coming artists.
  — Matt Diehl, Variety, 4 Dec. 2021
• There was always a war between the mainstream and the underground.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Her favorite part of sci-fi films is the resistance, the underground.
  — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• After a steady barrage of albums, mixtapes and EPs in the past three years, Yeat is making the leap from the underground to the mainstream.
  — Dewayne Gage, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2022
• The process of extracting it from underground hasn’t improved much over the years, either.
  — Allison Deangelis, STAT, 29 May 2022
• But for me, just listening to that whole movement of that underground.
  — Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
• The song brought Bey to the subcultural world of the New York underground, with its dirty synths and a speaker-breaking chorus.
  — Vulture, 26 July 2022
• There will be an underground not just for sales, but for therapy.
  — Nick Hilden, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2022
• Maybe Elon Musk’s plan to take traffic underground isn’t so crazy after all.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
• It’s planted in the fall, survives the winter underground, and gets harvested in the summer.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Oct. 2023
• 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
• But the whole time this is happening, there’s an amazing underground happening the last five, 10 years.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 20 June 2021
• A lot of this vitriol came from the memelords of 4chan, Tumblr’s darker cousin in the online underground and, for a while, its direct rival.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
• But at least some of those cats carried those meaty limb bones to the calm and cool of the underground, where mewls of hungry Homotherium kittens awaited the adults.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2021
• Shortly after the news of the monarch's period of rest broke, supporters wrote a sweet message to her on a white board in the Tube underground station.
  — Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• For these people, there is no underground from which to resurface, no normal world to rejoin after a long night.
  — Longreads, 15 Apr. 2022
• Most of the roots are about a foot underground, and this helps the water penetrate deeper than a sprinkler but doesn’t waste this valuable resource.
  — Carol Stocker, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2022
• Virginia Tech researchers found E. Persephone in the depths of Australia’s underground.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Dec. 2021
• Polls from around that time suggested that more than 90 percent of Ecuadorians would have voted to keep the oil underground.
  — Catrin Einhorn, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• But the technique comes at a price: because the materials lie at the surface, as opposed to deep underground, miners must clear out a wider swath of land.
  — NBC news, 8 Dec. 2021
• These moves brought tremendous attention to the underground.
  — Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, 3 May 2022

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underground

3 of 3 adjective

• She loves the city's underground music scene.
• The drugs are supplied through an underground network.
• In the 1980s, thrash was among the most confrontational, underground sounds in rock.
  — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The company said much of the route would go through underground tunnels.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2023
• Spend a few days in Tokyo, snacking in underground food halls and joining the fray that is Shibuya Crossing.
  — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
• Barton Springs is an underground spring that bubbles out of the earth, clean and fresh, at 68 to 70 degrees year-round.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2024
• The military describes the network as one of the most elaborate underground webs in the world.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• Less than 10 seconds later, a sounder of warthogs—a mother and her babies—shot out from their underground den on the path ahead of us.
  — Alexandra Kirkman, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2024
• Many homes in the Southeast lack a basement or underground shelter.
  — Emily Smith, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
• In the twilight of his career, Lloyd Webber has sent the ghost back to his underground lagoon, and the theater feels small and empty now.
  — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
• The mission quickly turns into the fight of his life, full of underground weapon dealers and intense stunts.
  — Brooke Lamantia, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Apr. 2023
• In the 1950s, an underground garage was constructed, and many of the square’s trees were uprooted and discarded.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Stop in for dinner, or take a tour of Casa Botin's dining rooms, cellar, and underground tunnels.
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2023
• In the village, a small patch of sidewalk is paved with oyster shells that can be watered from an underground reservoir and cool the sidewalk on hot days.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• The only scene shot in the original house comes late in the film, where Rudolf walks from his office through the real underground tunnel that connects the camp with his home.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
• On Maui, any efforts to underground lines would have to contend with rising sea levels that could eat at the soil supporting the pipes.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2023
• The researchers found that the most intense gas flows occurred in regions with underground shale layers that are millions of years old.
  — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
• Most workers also ran to an underground shelter to seek refuge.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• Sealed underground lava tubes on the moon and Mars might be useful spots to build habitable space structures.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2023
• Something else must have been causing the intense underground heat.
  — Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Due to its purely underground sound, this project became a cultural classic, and one of Nas’ most poignant LPs.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Sep. 2023
• Aside from the variety, Riot Fest is also the place for special moments within the punk and underground rock worlds.
  — Josh Chesler, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
• These materials are likely the residue of salty sea water from an underground ocean that bubbled up to the frozen surface of Ganymede.
  — Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
• On the outskirts of Avdiivka, a unit from the 59th brigade had been at the same artillery position for 12 days straight, living in a dank underground trench overrun with mice.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• Jumping on a crowded, dirty underground train might not bring you any closer to nature, but mass transit is one of the greenest ways to travel.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
• Kid makes a meager living as a wrestler at an underground fight club, his haunted visage hidden by an ape mask.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• The artist, who was born in the Bronx, became well known for his lyrical dexterity and sense of storytelling , which all stood out in the island’s underground hip hop scene.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2023
• Everywhere in the country, not just in the subway, not just in underground shelters, but everywhere.
  — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2023
• For the first four days of his captivity, while held in an underground compound just 30 minutes’ drive from his farm, Mr. Anucha had his hands bound behind his back.
  — Muktita Suhartono Lauren Decicca, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Nearby, the private wine room comes with floor-to-ceiling wine storage to mimic an underground cellar.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024