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How to use the word underground in a Sentence?

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Cappadocia is like something out of a fairy tale, a settlement where underground cities were carved out thousands of years ago.

Deniz Karkın

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need new thinking, we need to operate that infrastructure differently, we need to change some of the characteristics of that infrastructure, that will allow us to capture more of these flood flows, store it underground in these aquifers, and then use those ground water resources when we need them in dry years.

Peter Gleick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are a lot of people who are hiding underground because there are constant alerts about airstrikes, there are a lot of children. It’s hard to say how many people are left in Kyiv.

Aleksey Komlichenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it helps not being around each other a whole lot because I miss him when he’s gone, you know? as long as we’ve been together, he’s been working underground. And also, he doesn’t really fold the towels the way I want them to be folded.

Amy Hill

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

today is a good day for murder love hatred sex violence drugs revisionist attitudes anarchy of the sense letters and the like teatime exists in the MinD snarling underground day addiction

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

For now there is no heavy smoke, so we hope that there is no fire, we have no communication lines with these people, the underground communications system is not working.

Regional Governor Sergei Tsivilev

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It just became this dark, dark underground.

The FDA

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I was around 13 I read ‘The Hobbit,’ and then watched the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies when they got released, i always liked the idea of the hobbit's houses, the whole idea of being underground and surrounded by nature is cozy.

Ali Hughson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They're still dealing with this, we're building stuff without thinking. We haven't gotten results on congestion and rather than pivoting, we're going to do it underground, too.

Beth Osborne

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have to conserve water better, we have to use less water. ... We have water restrictions across the state, we have to store more water. The people that settled these arid mountain valleys and western states knew that. We're not doing a great job of that anymore. I'm grateful that in this bipartisan infrastructure push there is money for that type of infrastructure, storing water above ground and underground as well will make a big difference.

Spencer Cox

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She didn't understand why there would be water on her car even though it was underground.

Adam Schwartzbaum

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Now that it is not some illegal thing and it's not going to be an underground activity, our hope is that more and more entities will start distributing these and making them available.

Haley Coles

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Bitcoin has been used in a lot of underground transactions.

Kenneth Suchoski

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

You’ll be able to hear when you’re close, these cicadas live as nymphs underground for 17 years, and then tunnel up through the ground to the surface where they shed into their winged adult phase, living only 4-6 weeks. Cicada are tastiest in their teneral stage, which is right after they’ve shed into their adult forms, but are still pale while before their exoskeletons have hardened.

Cortni Borgerson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They sit underground for 17 years living off of tree sap. They come out for four to six weeks. Lay their eggs. And then they die, that’s pretty much their purpose for being on Earth.

Ashley Cuffia

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They still scare me when they fall down my shirt or walk up my neck but I can appreciate something that spends almost two decades underground for six weeks of bliss, with or without the fungus.

Matt Kasson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You’ve got a creature that spends 17 years in a COVID-like existence, isolated underground sucking on plant sap, right ? In the 17th year these teenagers are going to come out of the earth by the billions if not trillions. They’re going to try to best everything on the planet that wants to eat them during this critical period of the nighttime when they’re just trying to grow up, they’re just trying to be adults, shed that skin, get their wings, go up into the treetops, escape their predators.

Michael Raupp

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The app said the signal was weak, that’s when I twigged it was underground. Then the vet told me Alex’s right paw wound was caused by a bite and the collar must be inside the rat.

Andel Kindell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The fact that we had a bunch of traitors in office, hunkered down, put on gas masks and retreat to their underground bunker, I consider that a win.

Christian Johnson

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This is not a transit system. It's a system for driving electric vehicles underground.

Gerry Tierney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There has been so much damage to private property we are trying to record all losses, but the volume is just too high. Its already in the tens of millions in damages, we are seeing the use of banned weaponry like very large cluster bombs and many human losses because of this. People are scared, they have gone underground, or they are fleeing to IDP camps or to become refugees in Armenia. Even far from frontlines, people are dying.

Nagorno Karabakh

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

Richard Pryor

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Our work continues to find the graves of our fellow Tulsans who went missing during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Today, we begin a test excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery to determine what is causing an underground anomaly found by geophysical scanning conducted earlier this year, because the scan is consistent with a mass grave, a team of some of the foremost researchers in the nation have assembled in Tulsa to assess both the presence and the condition of any human remains at the site in question.

Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It reminds me of some of the attacks against Barack Obama for being connected to the Weather Underground and Black nationalists and Palestinian activists -- that View Trump was some sort of radical, it wasn't effective then and I don't think it will be effective now.

Waleed Shahid

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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