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Example sentences for "underlying"

Lexicographically close words:
underling; underlings; underlining; underlip; underly; underman; undermanned; undermentioned; undermine; undermined
  1. The principles underlying the exercises should be carefully considered.

  2. We find a deep, underlying instinct "that men do not live out half their days.

  3. Some have more than others, but the underlying principle is constant.

  4. And this, he had slowly come to realise, was the underlying tragedy of the countryside.

  5. There is an extensive underlying layer of gypsum, here," he said.

  6. Sanitation, not the word, but the underlying idea, was taught by precept and example.

  7. The soil varies according to the underlying rocks, but is thin and washes badly, if carelessly tilled.

  8. We are bound to sympathise with its underlying assumption, viz.

  9. Never yet has any American statesman swept so wide a range of learning, so complete a circle of public law, history, philosophy, and jurisprudence, in support of so noble a principle as the one underlying republican government.

  10. Indeed, underlying all this is the problem of problems: how to make that place attractive and joyous where hitherto the body has been tortured and contorted, and the blood poisoned by weariness!

  11. The cunning casuists there put the assumption underlying the question and the admission underlying the answer together.

  12. These were mere causes of feeling; underlying them, it must be confessed he had a superstitious fancy that God was about to make ordination in his behalf, in which event faith whispered him to stand still.

  13. Ben-Hur had not time to express his thanks for the song before the keel of the boat grated upon the underlying sand, and, next moment, the bow ran upon the shore.

  14. And we say that the soul is not a part, but a creature of God, and that it is not of the substance of God, or of any underlying matter of the elements, but was created out of nothing.

  15. There is a well recognized period of eleven and one-tenth years, the reason underlying which is not, however, known.

  16. The grand primary cause underlying this motion is as yet only surmised.

  17. This was a colossal discovery in celestial dynamics; and the reason underlying it lay hidden in Newton's law for yet another century, till the keener mathematics of Laplace detected its true origin.

  18. These immense blocks, fifty to one hundred feet in each dimension, appear as if the mass had slowly fallen down as the underlying rocks were worn away.

  19. It was composed of successive pillars of basalt overlying and underlying a thick stratum of cement and gravel resembling pudding-stone.

  20. The underlying peaty stratum, containing the piles, occupied much of Parazzi's attention, and he goes largely into its minutiƦ.

  21. Underlying the relic-bed was a thick bed of stiff loam and sand, into which the piles deeply penetrated.

  22. In the underlying clay he noticed some holes, which he concluded to have been due to small piles, the wood of which had disappeared by decomposition.

  23. It was in the latter that rotten piles were detected, which penetrated its whole depth to the underlying glacial clay.

  24. With the spirit underlying this protest, Hannah sympathized.

  25. This was hospitality, indeed; but underlying it, I fear, were treacherous designs, for the game of Samson and Delilah has been played with success more than once by the wily aboriginal.

  26. A soakage it must be, for no open rock-hole could hold water in such terrible heat; and its clearness would suggest the possibility of an underlying spring.

  27. The black underlying rock where exposed to the air shows numberless holes corroded in it, as by the action of moving salt water.

  28. This building appears to be of a much more recent date than the underlying castle filled up with earth on which it stands.

  29. In the underlying plain tamarisk was most plentiful.

  30. The view of the place, with its beautiful background of weird mountains, and the positions of the houses, the door of one on the level with the roof of the underlying one, against the face of the rock, are most striking.

  31. The underlying sand was cut into many channels by the action of water.

  32. Twenty miles from Lawah, mud-hills covering underlying rock were reached, and closed us in on either side.

  33. We then came across what at first seemed a confused commotion of sand and mud, but its formation was very curious, and looked as if it covered an underlying city of great size.

  34. On one side of the rock, where the greater number of habitations were to be found, they actually appeared one on the top of the other, the front door of one being on the level with the roof of the underlying one.

  35. The boards of the floor had shrunk, and between the interstices one got a bird's-eye view of what went on in the underlying room.

  36. Such a continuing life we no doubt have evidence of, and indeed commonly admit to exist, in the Race-life; and as a first approximation it seems natural and obvious to interpret the underlying or subliminal self as being simply the Race-self.

  37. And as to the underlying self (2), whatever exactly it may be, there are a thousand reasons for seeing that as a wholly separate entity the same must be true of that.

  38. They do not give the impression that at death the underlying self is in the act of perishing.

  39. But (3), we have a great deal of evidence to show that, as a matter of fact, the underlying self is especially active at the moment of death.

  40. We also brought forward some considerations to show the nature of the underlying or subconscious self--its immense extent, the swiftness of its perceptions, and so forth.

  41. For a further account of the subliminal or underlying self, see next chapter.

  42. The skin covering it is of a dark color, thin and freely movable over the underlying parts.

  43. He looked at the essences of things, the soul of things, and not to the outward wrappings of circumstance, and He read that palimpsest of motive, the underlying thought, more easily than others could read the outward act.

  44. Consequently the feelings concerning this relation became surcharged with all the emotion which modern psychology has taught us always attaches to the conscious symbol of deeply underlying unconscious complexes.

  45. The neurotic constitution, as Adler[1,2] has pointed out, is an expression of underlying structural or functional organic deficiency.

  46. The underlying principle of this social phenomenon has been called the principle of "the persistence of institutions.

  47. In essence this consists of the satisfaction derived from doing that which pleases God, or "getting into harmony with the underlying plan of the universe," as some put it.

  48. Before they understood the deeper underlying principles of organized society, they had seen what they naturally held to be high official duties and responsibilities ruthlessly bartered and trafficked with before their eyes.

  49. It is important to understand the underlying causes of Indian wars.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underlying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    basal; basic; bottom; capital; constituent; covert; cryptic; dormant; elemental; elementary; esoteric; essential; foundation; fundamental; gut; hidden; intrinsic; latent; lurking; material; muffled; mystical; obscured; occult; original; possible; potential; primal; primary; primitive; radical; rudimentary; sleeping; subconscious; submerged; substantial; substantive; ulterior; ultimate; underlying; veiled; virtual