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
He produces his own short-form videos, feeding an internet audience hungry for unfiltered views of L.A.’s underbelly.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025
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
The night concluded with an enthusiastic performance by Doja Cat on an outdoor stage in the shadow of the David Geffen Galleries, the lights girding its massive concrete underbelly like stars in the sky.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2025
Shady Creek may be a magical fairyland of a suburb most of the time, but when the candy runs out on Halloween, the criminal underbelly emerges.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
