underbelly

Example Sentences

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When a softer touch was needed, such as on her sensitive underbelly, she would use the smooth handle end.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

But those earnings have an ugly underbelly: ever-bigger losses at the generative AI startups that spend big on chips and data centers supplied by the profitable public companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Martin wrote it, they said, to explore the underbelly of the “troubled teen” industry, particularly the camps that became popular in the 1990s, but in a way that is almost as semi-autobiographical as “Feel Good.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

In The Modern World tackles the disillusionment of getting to Hollywood and discovering its seedy underbelly.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025

I point out one shell that is flat and has waves and looks like a fan, with a soft pink underbelly where a pearl might have once been found.

From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender