How to Use underworld in a Sentence

underworld

noun

• Black and navy are the Romy and Michele of the underworld.
  — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Sep. 2022
• First, there's Pluto, the god of the underworld, and then Mars, the god of war.
  — Allure, 18 Mar. 2022
• Then there is the Mafia and the Roman underworld side of the story.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
• By the late 1970s, the Guzmán clan had emerged as a rising force in the Sinaloa drug underworld.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• Miller tries to avoid slipping back the underworld with the help of an old friend (Rhames).
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 19 May 2022
• Greek myths spoke of the ferryman Charon who carried the souls of the dead across the river Styx to the underworld.
  — Dimitris Sideridis, CNN, 22 Nov. 2021
• And like the queen of the underworld, millipedes are ancient.
  — Haley Weiss, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2021
• She is summoned back on the Day of the Dead with a mission: to escort her husband, Diego Rivera, to the underworld.
  — Thomas May, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• Over 2,000 years ago, the Aztecs believed the spirits of their ancestors passed on to the underworld.
  — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2021
• She’s one of the three Furies, known as Alecto, who loyally serves Hades, the god of the underworld.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 June 2022
• And the golden scarab beetle was thought to help in the arduous underworld.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
• This sign is ruled by both the warrior Mars, and Pluto, the lord of the underworld, which explains some of the intensity.
  — Emily Simone, Allure, 29 Dec. 2021
• Or rather, a portal to the underworld is found outside Chicago.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
• The trailer gives us a glimpse into the Star Wars underworld, and a crime operation that Fett hopes to bend to his will.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• The depiction of the underworld in the show (Hadestown looks like a brutal factory town) feels mild to what can be viewed nightly on the news.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• Guns still change hands in the criminal underworld — but even that supply route has slowed down.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 27 May 2022
• Trump’s chief mentor, and a consigliere to most of the big shots named above, was the legendary underworld and overworld fixer Roy Cohn.
  — Sean Wilentz, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
• But a fire destroyed it during World War II, and the new world began a slow slide into an underworld.
  — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
• Room Service is the story of a down-on-his-luck man who’s pulled deep into a dark underworld of the ultrawealthy.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
• In ancient Egypt, embalmers sometimes crafted tongues from gold foil and placed them inside the mouths of the dead to enable them to speak with Osiris, the god of the underworld.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
• The canalización, as people call it, is a place now emblematic of the city’s ills, an underworld in plain sight.
  — Rekha Tenjarla, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• In the second episode, Bert tells a story about Hades kidnapping Persephone to the underworld.
  — Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
• That’s where people of the underworld take advantage to carry out scams.
  — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 9 Feb. 2022
• Everything, from the altar to the grand chandelier, is hewn from this underworld of salt.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2023
• But in Season 2, Horse is more like a malevolent trickster god, or a portal to the underworld.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2022
• The ubiquity of firearms as the weapon of choice in the criminal underworld has contributed to a leveling of the playing field for the sexes.
  — Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Martínez’s work put him in close proximity to a dark underworld.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2022
• Among many other things, the opera is a study in inequality, the Nibelungs living in a dank underworld.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
• By his side, Caracas finds a grand old man, a novelist who wanders with him into the depths of the Neapolitan underworld.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 13 Feb. 2023
• Getting dragged to the underworld to empower yourself for revenge is all part of it.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024