How to Use the underground in a Sentence
the underground
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But not for bands from the underground of third-wave emo.
—Chris Payne, Vulture, 30 May 2023
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Daria wrote to me while hiding in the underground garage of her block of flats in Kiev.
—Wojciech Delikta, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2023
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A lot has changed in the more than a decade since the underground warehouse parties.
—Daniela Cintron, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
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In places, the underground rocks are now dry down to 400 feet below ground.
—Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
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Rails of lights hugged the moist walls, shining on sprouts of green plants, the underground’s only bursts of color.
—Amy Chang Chien, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2022
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It’s been more than 20 years since Linkin Park broke out from the underground and became one of the biggest rock bands on the planet.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
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Some of the underground spaces found in Trenčín may date back to before the medieval era, Hulínek said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 July 2024
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There was always a war between the mainstream and the underground.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2022
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Take a look at the underground tunnels where Israeli hostages were held.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2024
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Her favorite part of sci-fi films is the resistance, the underground.
—Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 1 June 2022
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Plus, just the commercialism of the underground had kind of spoiled a lot of what was exciting back in the Sun City Girls days.
—Ryan Reed, SPIN, 29 Dec. 2023
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For woods, the sight of the test strips offered a window into the underground economies that support life and survival in New York.
—Jayson Buford, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
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Over the decades, the soil had formed a pressurized cushion around the underground aquifer that held up other buildings on the Mall.
—John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
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Eventually, the land above the underground space caves in, the USGS says.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
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Author Andrew Martin shares his decades-long affair with the underground in the City of Light.
—Andrew Martin, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2024
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Just this week, the Navy began the months-long process of draining 104 million gallons of fuel from the underground tanks.
—Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
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After rumbling in the underground comedy scene for three decades, Quake, as he’s known to many, says a longer wait won’t shake him.
—Alexis P. Williams, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
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This was the fabric that made up the garments of the ensuing decades: the filmmakers, the musicians, the underground artists that had shaped our world.
—Hazlitt, 10 May 2023
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De la Loza, who was part of the underground punk scene in the late 1980s, remembers wearing similar pants as part of her look.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
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Specifically, trying to find the little temple with the underground maze that a friend took me to about ten years ago.
—Liza Lentini, Spin, 22 Sep. 2023
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The door in the underground shelter will be constructed out of metal and filled in with concrete—a style common in bunkers and bomb shelters.
—Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
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Israel launched a ground assault on Gaza in 2014 to try and eliminate the underground passages.
—Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
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The green marble sinks and oval mirrors above them in the bathrooms are inspired by cenotes (the Spanish term for the underground limestone caves filled with water).
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
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The half-acre brick plaza closed in 2018 because of structural problems with the underground parking garage that was a condition of the donor who gave the land to the city decades earlier.
—oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2023
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Drones regularly hover over the site, using heat sensors and cameras to track the spread of the underground fire.
—Rick Noack, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
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One park ranger measured her tap water at 105 degrees because the underground pipes were so hot.
—Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
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The redesign took 11 of London’s tube lines and renamed them for Swift’s 11 studio albums, while the underground stations were named after songs by the star.
—Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
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The workers in the underground and opencast mines work without protective gear.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
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The district will reimburse the city $2.2 million, which will cover the cost of the underground pipe and its location under the roadway.
—Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
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The tour of the underground garden was filled with fun tidbits about this creative farming solution and the history of this region as a hub for farming in California.
—Outside Online, 24 July 2024
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