How to Use the underworld in a Sentence

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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
• Harris dressed as Hades the god of the underworld, complete with a horned crown.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• Some still have coins in their mouths, thought to help secure a safe journey to the underworld.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2023
• But this tale isn’t an account of some distressed damsel who gets swept up in the underworld.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Jan. 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 giant glyphs may depict spirits of the underworld and have been dated to the first millennium AD.
  — CNN, 4 May 2022
• Paul would be some form of Sisyphus pushing the boulder up a hill in the underworld, and perhaps Danny is the reason why the boulder keeps coming down.
  — Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Apr. 2023
• The new series returns to Malaya, now a former governor convicted of past crimes who has vowed to turn his back on the underworld.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• With Love as his guide, Orpheus journeys into the underworld to save his wife, Eurydice.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2022
• The ancient Greeks did not conceive of Hades as the personification of evil a la Satan (though the underworld that Mitchell depicts is a hellish one).
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
• In the first act, Kahlo and her fellow muertos appear in garments reminiscent of clay — a rendering of the underworld that gets away from trite reds and blacks.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• When attackers steal his car and kill the dog, Wick is drawn back into the underworld, with astoundingly bloody results.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2023
• After the somber opening scene as Diego and others visit shrines to their dead, the textures in the underworld, led by the cackling Catrina, are brighter and livelier.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
• Their odd-couple chemistry provides many of the film’s best moments, as Bianca, with infinite patience, tutors Kristin in the ways of the underworld.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2023
• And that idea of change was sticking with me as well as some of the language and iconography—the visuals from this story of a dude going through this long, weird journey into the underworld.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
• The series follows Jagruti Pathak, a headline-writing journalist who is caught between the nexus of the police, the underworld and the media.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 May 2023
• Joel Kinnaman stars as a family man who descends into the underworld to avenge his young son’s death on Christmas Eve.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
• Among those inspired was Dante, whose Inferno ended its epic tour of hell when the author and Virgil escape from the tortures of the underworld to be greeted by a wondrous sight.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
• The spiritual belief of Día de Muertos is that the souls of those who have passed and are in the underworld are traveling back to the living world, and their souls are being welcomed by an ofrenda.
  — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024