How to Use underbelly in a Sentence

underbelly

noun

• They exposed the underbelly of the nation's economic policy.
• The imaging system, dubbed the MX-15, attached to the underbelly of the aerostat was roughly the size of a beach ball.
  — Annie Jacobsen, Wired, 20 Jan. 2021
• Suess paid $800 to mend the converter and weld it to the underbelly of the car to protect it from future thieves.
  — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2021
• Up to ten color sensors sit on the underbelly of the robot to take stock of the hues beneath the robot’s feet.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2021
• The Jets might be an even .500 after back-to-back wins over the Dolphins and Jaguars at home, but this is the soft underbelly of their schedule.
  — Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• The site was on the darknet, the underbelly of the deep web which cannot be accessed by a regular browser.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 19 Oct. 2019
• And all the nasty stuff that was in the underbelly of American politics got a voice.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• If Black Swan drew back the curtain on the dark underbelly of ballet, White Crow, flies to its defense.
  — Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2019
• The underbelly of the aircraft was painted a soft navy, with curved racing stripes of silver and gold.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
• Be sure to place the casserole dish in the lower part of your oven, so the underbelly of these spuds reach maximum levels of crunch.
  — Amy Wang, OregonLive.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• The underbellies of these chunks of faraway glaciers were of the deepest, most delicious blue.
  — Darrell Hartman, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2023
• Is this an alternate world or the underbelly of our own?
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• Leo does start to prod around the seedy underbelly of Neo-Berlin in an attempt to figure out what happened to Naadirah.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2018
• That exposed the weak underbelly of the eurozone — the state of the public finances in a number of member economies.
  — Pan Pylas, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2018
• But the act was a shock, even for a series about the seamy underbelly of a reality dating show.
  — Lisa Rosen, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• The armor on the top side of her trunk was thick, latticed in a pattern of rectangles sweeping down to the underbelly, which was full and soft.
  — Jason Florio, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
• The sheer scale and cost of the games and the terrible costs that are invariably born by the poorest people living in the host cities are the soft underbelly of the IOC at the moment.
  — National Geographic, 31 July 2016
• The whole case exposed the often-slimy underbelly of college sports.
  — Mark Purdy, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2017
• Desperate for a cure, the patients had retreated to the underbelly of the Earth, one mile into Mammoth Cave, a place pitch black to the naked eye.
  — Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2021
• The kit includes protection for the underbelly of the SUV and adds 1.2 inches of ground clearance over the standard model.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 31 Jan. 2023
• The Dark Web is the digital underbelly of the Internet.
  — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 4 June 2018
• For players who choose to use them this way, games are the sum of their mechanics and aesthetics, like the underbelly of a piano or the set of a Broadway play.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 12 Jan. 2021
• FEUD isn't the only series looking at the seedy underbelly of the early days of his industry.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Marie Claire, 7 Mar. 2017
• Wright digs into the underbelly of the dot-com bubble with this profile of Seth Warshavsky, an early web whiz kid who rose to prominence on the strength of — what else?
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2024
• The scheme laid bare the dark underbelly of globalization.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Some species are two-toned, with purple topsides and pink underbellies.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• The underbelly of the ice teems with zooplankton -- tiny crustaceans that feed on the phytoplankton.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 8 June 2019
• And yet this underbelly of the Civil Rights Act is rarely acknowledged today.
  — Jeanne Theoharis, The Denver Post, 12 July 2019
• Its underbelly is covered with red, green, and black enamel.
  — Kristen Shirley, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
• The model showed the waves rippling across the underbellies of the continents at a rate of 15 to 20 kilometers per million years, an imperceptible fraction of a sloth’s pace.
  — Byhannah Richter, science.org, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024