underground

Example Sentences

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Toxic gas is believed to have built up underground in poorly ventilated tunnels, causing the workers to collapse just before the end of their night shift.

From BBC

Inside it feels like it was built for a future where humans live underground, seeking to reconnect with what life was once like on Earth.

From Los Angeles Times

In the film, Huppert's countess character returns to life in a scarlet red funeral barge sailing into in the Seegrotte, an underground Viennese lake popular with tourists.

From Barron's

Floyd said the organization is capable of detecting underground explosions that might be nuclear tests if they have a yield equivalent to about 500 tons of TNT.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Oh, and you think I would have missed noticing if this guy came up out of a secret underground passage?”

From Literature