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Example sentences for "beneath the"

  • Your royal master will as vainly seek to contend with me as he did to bury me beneath the oak-tree," cried Herne.

  • A subterranean passage leads from the vault beneath the choir of Saint George's altar to the sepulchre.

  • And if your majesty should need a partner," said Jane, walking up to Anne and speaking in a low tone, "you will doubtless find Sir Henry Norris disengaged.

  • By this time the moon had arisen, and as they emerged upon the marsh they easily discovered a track, though not broader than a sheep-walk, leading along its edge.

  • Sister Anastasia and good Father Anselm always taught me to utter an Ave and cross myself during a thunderstorm.

  • But the heart of Odysseus melted, and the tear wet his cheeks beneath the eyelids.

  • For already has the light gone beneath the west, and it is not seemly to sit long at a banquet of the gods, but to be going home.

  • And I in turn will sacrifice to thee a yearling heifer, broad of brow, unbroken, which man never yet hath led beneath the yoke.

  • He became conscious of a quality of evil which pervaded the room; the entire place seemed to lie beneath a spell, beneath the spell of an invisible, immeasurably wicked intelligence.

  • Arrayed in a gossamer nightrobe she lay in the bed, beneath the trap, her sunken face matching the silken whiteness.

  • The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

  • Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas.

  • The rock, also, being micaceous slate, there was no beach, but the steep sides dipped directly beneath the water.

  • A fish called the "armado" (a Silurus) is remarkable from a harsh grating noise which it makes when caught by hook and line, and which can be distinctly heard when the fish is beneath the water.

  • They have been observed to enter a tent, and actually pull some meat from beneath the head of a sleeping seaman.

  • He drew and struck: the straight blade drank The life beneath the breast.

  • Now tell us what is your errand here, beneath the shadow of her who sits in stone?

  • Every one hoped so, so that the minister felt that all around him, beneath the homage of the courtiers, lay a fund of hatred, ill disguised by fear and interest.

  • The man fell like an ox beneath the poleaxe.

  • He crept from his hole and stood, hidden by the black drapery, beneath the scaffold.

  • She swept swiftly forward, superb and triumphant, beneath the gaze of those dark, restless eyes.

  • He pushed a tiny key--from off the ring he carried--beneath the door.

  • In fact, however, the beginnings had been much more simple, and they had confined themselves, beneath the trees of Medan, to deciding on a general title for the work.

  • Then, as he had a piece of twine in his pocket, he tied it up and hid it in a deep portion of the stream, beneath the trunk of a tree that overhung the Brindille.

  • Beneath the cold, misty sky of this little northern beach I felt as if I were taking part in a sort of symbolical drama.

  • Amboyne was sent for, justified this vague sense that there was something strange going on beneath the surface.

  • Meantime Cole met Mr. Coventry, and told him what was going on beneath the surface: at the same time he expressed his surprise at the extraordinary forbearance shown by the Union.

  • Beneath the softness of the air was the iciness of the snow; it made him want to run and leap.

  • She seemed to see her lover and herself setting forth silently along the river wall where they had first met; sitting down, still silent, beneath the poplar-tree where the little bodies of the chafers had lain strewn in the Spring.

  • But from thy breast the blood we will suck out, Unless thou follow us beneath the mould!

  • O, freely that will I become, If thou but take me beneath the foam.

  • It's lots of fun to live my life, Beneath the sky; To have no one who owns the right To question "Why"?

  • And I Was lonely, there, beneath the sky.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beneath the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arises from; became quite; beneath the; beneath them; graven image; greater speed; greenish colour; heat required; immense height; liquid petroleum; looked more; materials used; mon brave; nor any; offshore banking; petty officer; pounds weight; saved from; sick child; slightly beaten; small bundle; sugar and; taking cold