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How to use the word underworld in a Sentence?

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From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

Sir Winston Churchill

added by Normando
10 months ago

These compact remnants of dead stars show a fundamentally different distribution and structure to the visible galaxy, the ‘height’ of the galactic underworld is over three times larger in the Milky Way itself. And an amazing 30 percent of objects have been completely ejected from the galaxy.

David Sweeney

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In the streets and in the criminal underworld when you do something like that you’re basically looked upon as a hero, you earn points, you earn stripes.

Seth Ferranti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He was fearless, he was reckless and he basically didn’t care what anyone else thought and did what he wanted to do, that old street justice, death before dishonor outlaw creed, is still there especially in the criminal underworld and in prison, so stuff like that can catch up to you. It doesn't always catch up to you. But in Alpo’s case, it did.

Seth Ferranti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[When a victimless criminal] is treated as an enemy of society, he almost necessarily becomes one. Forced into criminal acts, immersed in underworld-related supply networks, and ever-conscious of the need to evade the police, his outlooks as well as behavior become more and more anti-social.

Edwin M. Schur

added by Normando
5 years ago

Do dead people like music? I hope they listen to mine if they do, in their coffins, in the cold underworld, between the mind and the body in an insomniac wall of sleep.

Marc Broude

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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