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Example sentences for "underneath"

Lexicographically close words:
undermine; undermined; undermines; undermining; undermost; undernote; undernourished; underpaid; underpart; underparts
  1. Little children are made to pass thrice underneath the karanda of their parents when it is first lifted in the chamber, "to prevent them from pining for the deceased.

  2. This last strange contrivance is, I believe, intended as a hint to the evil spirit or vampire which comes to suck the child's blood, and for whom the trap described above is set underneath the house-floor.

  3. Upon the ground, exactly underneath the tray, should be deposited the feathers, feet, entrails, etc.

  4. If, however, it floats right underneath the candle it is generally a fatal sign.

  5. Here the limas is set adrift, and the water underneath it scooped up and carried home, where it is used for bathing the sick man.

  6. I looked at the water which lay between the two, and saw that it whirled and eddied, as though there were some terrible forces underneath which moved it at will.

  7. Underneath these we both crept, and here we sat for a considerable time.

  8. On the border of the forest, Underneath the fragrant pine-trees, Sat the old men and the warriors Smoking in the pleasant shadow.

  9. It had grown on to the back of her mother, and the pasteboard had grown underneath on to her.

  10. But underneath their covert, in the shade, grey periwinkles wind among the snowy drift of allium.

  11. Discreetly withdrawing into my dusty apartment, I endeavored to make out the form of the intruder who now was passing underneath the window; but the density of the shadows in the lane rendered it impossible for me to do so.

  12. From underneath a mass of business correspondence I took out a large, sealed envelope, which I enclosed with a letter in one yet larger, to be registered to Messrs.

  13. Giovanna was standing before an open drawer, re-reading a letter which she had found slipped underneath the door when they got home that day.

  14. He had entirely altered his mode of life; he now worked regularly, and was doing very well; but underneath everything was a sense of unutterable melancholy, which he was never able wholly to throw off.

  15. Underneath this stone doth lie, As much virtue as could die; Which when alive did vigour give To as much beauty as could live.

  16. Henry Carruthers," with a London address, and underneath had been hastily pencilled the word "Important.

  17. There was a small pool of blood underneath the head, a slight stain on the carpet in the adjoining room, but none on the clothing or elsewhere.

  18. It is underneath where the stairway goes up.

  19. I saw him underneath four or five detectives immediately at my feet in front of me after the shooting.

  20. Would you endorse your name underneath it?

  21. You are now sort of indicating back in the area toward Main Street underneath the sidewalk?

  22. In one little breast it still abode, purely original and native, and growing underneath the soil, shy of light and hard to find, like the truffle of the South Downs.

  23. But he found her in old Chancton Ring, where first he had beholden her; and so much came across him, that he never took his hat off, but just whispered underneath it.

  24. There is a little stuffing in here, sir; let me show you; underneath the apron.

  25. The best way to enjoy it is to follow the path along the meadows, underneath the inland rampart of the Sussex hills.

  26. In size it grows from ten to fourteen inches; in color it is bluish-green above, whitish underneath and on its sides.

  27. Then place the first figure of each product underneath the multiplying digit.

  28. The [Illustration: Butterfly] was very busy, gumming her eggs safely underneath a cabbage leaf.

  29. As this coat approaches the front of the eye under the circumference of the cornea, it thickens into the ciliary body, forming a dense ring of tissues underneath the junction of the cornea and the sclerotic coat.

  30. Illustrations and tables have been moved out of the text when they were printed inside paragraphs; footnotes have been moved to directly underneath the paragraph or table to which they belong.

  31. Have I, or have I not, made you prove to yourself, by your own common sense, that the lowlands of Britain were underneath the sea in the days in which these pebbles and boulders were laid down over your plains?

  32. Underneath these beds again are those which carry the building-stone of Runcorn.

  33. We find underneath the glaciers, first a moraine profonde, consisting of the boulders and gravel, and earth, which the glacier has ground off the hillsides, and is carrying down with it.

  34. The next time you go up any mountain, look at the loose broken stones with which the top is coated, just underneath the turf.

  35. He sat all the time like a rock, courteous, at times obviously amusing, but underneath it all she fancied that she saw some signs of the disturbance from which she herself was suffering.

  36. There are cellars underneath here into which no one ever goes who matters.

  37. Fischer beat his little tattoo upon the trapdoor, crawled through it and underneath the flap in the counter, out into the saloon.

  38. Pamela changed her position a little, as though to escape from the sunlight which was finding its way underneath the broad blinds.

  39. The two men played several sets of tennis and afterwards lounged in two wicker chairs, underneath a gigantic plane tree in a corner of the lawn.

  40. They followed her advice, and copied the front page only of the notes, placing underneath some portions of Latin translation or historical essay.

  41. Through the pouring rain they struggled on, splashing anyhow through swampy places, regardless of soaked shoes and stockings, pushing through wet bushes and underneath dripping branches, possessed by the one idea of flight.

  42. Just when it was growing dusk, she took her little daughter to a secret doorway in the panelling, from which a subterranean passage led underneath the moat into the adjoining wood.

  43. Between their hulls and the vertical surface of the wharfs would be formed mountains of restless rubbish eaten underneath by the fish and pecked above by the sea-gulls.

  44. At one o'clock in the morning he went up the hotel stairway, surprised at seeing a ray of light underneath the door of his room.

  45. At some tables further on a young man and woman were forgetting the courses in order to clasp hands underneath the cloth and place knee against knee with frenzied pressure.

  46. On the other hand, her white complexion showed underneath it a yellowish subcutaneous, granular condition that looked as though made up of particles of bran.

  47. The sailor grinned at the mere thought of putting that Hindenburg underneath his own counter.

  48. Bremen now came up to say that they had discovered a rhinoceros close to the river-side, concealed in the bushes underneath a clump of acacia.

  49. Once he seizes her by the neck and holds her thus for some seconds, yet all the while in the couched attitude and with the chick underneath him.

  50. At any rate, I have just distinctly seen the bird rise up, take the egg carefully in this way between its two feet, sliding them underneath it, and then sink gently down upon it again.

  51. To get at the cones, he often flies up underneath them, and hangs a little, thus, before clinging, on fluttering wings.

  52. So if you hear any noise underneath you this afternoon you will know what it means.

  53. Underneath you will find some heavy envelopes that the photographer gave me to mail them in.

  54. Underneath was a tablet bearing an inscription.

  55. Thank you, so much," spoke a sweet voice from underneath the veil, and the owner of it followed close behind him, and he handed her into the carriage.

  56. Robin Hood discovered her sex, underneath her disguise, and began to make love to her.

  57. Scene IV Sarastro and his priests were in a vault underneath one of the temples.

  58. ACT V In a dungeon underneath the palace, John found his mother.

  59. Scarcely had the buckboard left the bridge than from underneath it was thrust the barrel of a rifle.

  60. His fears were not allayed by noticing that underneath his himation Pratinas occasionally let the hilt of a short sword peep forth.

  61. Suddenly a slender, nervous-looking man emerged from somewhere underneath the stage and walked over to the leader's stand in front of the orchestra.

  62. On the shelves were rows of dark blue china dishes and underneath on nails hung a glistening array of tins.

  63. Underneath the big chair by the table was a pair of man's bedroom slippers almost as small as a boy's.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underneath" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bed; bedrock; belly; below; bottom; breech; fundament; secret; sole; substratum; under; undercover; underneath; underside