How to Use underwater in a Sentence

underwater

adjective
  • 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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