How to Use underwater in a Sentence
underwater
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So some of the parts to the, the coast would be underwater.
— Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023 -
The vast portion of the feed pile will be underwater, out of view.
— John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022 -
Such a rise would put many of the world's coastal cities underwater.
— Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024 -
The body was found in an area that would’ve been about 100 feet underwater and hundreds of yards from shore decades ago.
— al, 26 July 2022 -
To be sure, the U.S. could clear in a matter of weeks any underwater mines from the strait that block oil tankers from passing through.
— Byjason Ma, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2024 -
In South Sudan, parts of the country have been underwater now for four years.
— Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023 -
It was spotted in a new underwater mountain range off the coast of Chile.
— Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024 -
The tiles on the bottom are about 2.2 meters underwater, which is about 7 feet deep.
— Doc Louallen, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024 -
While the underwater world had been evolving and changing, so had the above-water.
— Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023 -
Although rains stopped three days ago, large swaths of the country remain underwater, and the main rivers, the Indus and the Swat, are still swollen.
— Munir Ahmed, ajc, 30 Aug. 2022 -
At the time, the other aircraft was about 21 feet underwater.
— Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023 -
Parts of Asia’s largest cities are projected to be underwater by the end of the century.
— Laura Paddison, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023 -
The underwater call of the sperm whale, the earth’s loudest, registers at 230 decibels.
— Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024 -
The landing craft had at one point been so far underwater that the park service sent divers to the site beginning in 2006.
— Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022 -
Speed down slides, go on underwater treasure hunts and float down the 1,005-foot lazy river.
— Robin Soslow, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023 -
The woman wasn’t able to hoist herself up, went underwater, and was not able to resurface, the statement said.
— BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022 -
The fact that the stone bridge was underwater provokes the question of its preservation.
— Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2024 -
If Mount Everest were placed into the trench at this point, its peak would still be underwater by more than 1.2 miles.
— Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2022 -
Off the southern coast of the island is a beach called Playa El Cielo, famous for the thousands of underwater starfish scattered across the fine white sand, much like stars in the sky.
— Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2024 -
In search of their treasure, pearl divers have been known to stay underwater for up to seven minutes.
— Andrew Dubbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022 -
Officials said the man had been swimming in the stream and went underwater but did not resurface so his friends pulled him out.
— Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 23 June 2022 -
On May 1, the body of a man was found in a barrel that was previously underwater.
— Louis Casiano, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2022 -
And polling shows that while Biden is underwater with Arizona voters, Trump is even more so.
— Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 7 Oct. 2022 -
These underwater forests, made of large brown algae, thrive off the coast, anchored to rocky reefs with their unique holdfast roots.
— David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2024 -
Well beneath the waves, the reef is only affected by the underwater tidal surge and currents.
— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024 -
Kadara, said about one-third of Allensworth is underwater and many of its 600 residents have been forced to leave.
— Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 23 Mar. 2023 -
Both of my coaches have focused on my underwater kick to push farther and faster.
— Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023 -
Her Blackfeet tribe, for example, believes there are three realms: the sky world, the below world — that is, Earth — and the underwater world.
— Bobby Ross Jr., The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2022 -
More work to be done Though the feat of removing the underwater cables is complete, Patten said there are still telecommunication cables on land.
— Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024 -
Visitors will walk through jungle scenes, underwater worlds and beaches.
— Richard Guzman, Orange County Register, 25 Nov. 2024
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