Nevertheless after a time his fixity of purpose was undermined by a sullen, growing suspicion that Janet was guilty.
After that blighting moment, when even Janet perceived that George was determined not to speak to her; after that Janet began to see that when foundations are undermined that which is built upon them will one day totter and--fall.
Indeed it was more overhanging than perpendicular, as the action of the water had considerably undermined its base and therefore rendered it almost inaccessible.
In other words, divorce is but a symptom of more serious evils, and these evils have in certain classes of American society apparently undermined the very virtues upon which the family life subsists.
The religious theory of the family which prevailed during the Middle Ages, but which was more or lessundermined by the Reformation, gave away entirely in those great social changes which ushered in the nineteenth century.
At any rate, we find their worship growing rapidly within the period of authentic history and undermining the domestic worship, while at a still later period skeptical philosophy undermined both religions.
But, in her blindness, she strove to destroy that force in Olivier, which was hers also, their common safeguard: and by an instinctive strategical movement she undermined the friendship by which that force was upheld.
His health, undermined by excess and fever, could not bear up against it.
The grave closed over the hateful secrets that embittered the road to power and greatness, leaving that power and greatness, when once achieved, undermined by the black shadows of the past.
The saying had permanently underminedthe confidence necessary to the success of spoken untruth.
The village has been partly destroyed by the Missouri river, which has undermined the bank and carried away some of the house rings reported to have been well preserved, but a number remain.
The houses nearest both Porcupine creek and the Missouri river stand on the bank immediately above the water, and it is possible that some of those on the Porcupine have been undermined and carried away by that stream when in flood.
The sun will be at work on it; it will get underminedby the wash of the breakers, until, being top-heavy, it will speedily capsize.
Finally the overgrown and undermined body split in twain, each half maintaining a separate existence.
Earth defenses were now built by the legions of Titus against the different fortifications, but no sooner were these built than they fell, undermined by the vigilant Simon and John.
He maintained, that by the negative vested in the commissioners, the chartered rights of the company, on which stress had been laid, were insidiouslyundermined and virtually annihilated.
It was this social evil, more than political misrule, which undermined the empire.
The vinea was a sort of roof under which the soldiers protected themselves when they undermined walls.
Grasp the Crusades, and you comprehend one of the forces which undermined the institutions of the Middle Ages.
Their fanaticism recoiled upon themselves, and undermined their own system.
But with this we face dangers also, such as undermined the old Roman world and all the ancient civilizations.
The central tower, which is short and terminates in a conical roof, was ruined by the Huguenots, who undermined it, thinking that its fall would destroy the whole building.
It was consequently undermined and reduced to its present state of ruin.
Wide and deep fosses encircle the site, which is underminedby spacious crypts and subterraneous caverns.
The revulsion of feeling after the witchcraft delusion undermined his authority greatly, and Robert's Calef's More Wonders of the Spiritual World (1700) was a personal blow to him as well as to his son.
From infancy his health had been uncertain, and the toils of his profession gradually undermined it.
The roar of the plunging waters, the crashing and booming of the falling masses of earth that were undermined by the roaring torrent were heard miles away.
So much the better; there is no guarding against the garrulity of that class, and all the craftiest stratagems of the drawing-room are often undermined in the servants'-hall.
At a point called Le Portail, the vast wall of rock had been so completely excavated and undermined by the lake, that a series of heavy strata of rock rested solely on a single pillar standing in the lake.
By this means, large areas of the impending mass are at length undermined and precipitated into the lake, leaving the split and rent parts, from which they have separated, standing like huge misshapen turrets and battlements.
The soil rests on a rock foundation, which renders it incapable of being undermined by the Mississippi.
It was clear that such a meeting could not take place in the undermined castle, and Ali was therefore invited to repair to the island in the lake.
By large but vague concessions Cuvier kept the theologians satisfied, while he undermined their strongest fortress.
But all investigators were not so docile as Wilkinson, and there soon came a new train of scientific thought which rapidly undermined all this theological chronology.
These, by revealing more and more clearly the reign of law, steadily undermined the older theological view of arbitrary influence in nature.
But, while the fabric reared by Mr. Gladstone had been thus undermined by Huxley on the scientific side, another opponent began an attack from the biblical side.
How an atmosphere was spread in which this belief began to dissolve away, how its main foundations were undermined by science, and how there came in gradually a reign of humanity, will now be related.
These have as thoroughly undermined the old theologic substitution of phrases for facts.
In Italy, in the latter half of the sixteenth century, came a striking example of the difficulties which science still encountered even after the Renaissance had undermined the old beliefs.
Did it happen that a salt column was undermined by the rains and fell, this was believed to be but another sign of life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undermined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
