underground
Example Sentences
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It was mostly young people of Afro-Caribbean descent living in poor communities who sang and listened to it in underground clubs that were often raided by the police.
From BBC
Despite its importance, scientists are still unraveling the exact processes that allow soil to remove carbon from the active carbon cycle and keep it underground.
From Science Daily
Small reactors take up little land—the nuclear combustion happens underground—but can produce 300 megawatts, enough to power 300,000 homes a day.
From Barron's
Until recently, fiber optics have primarily been used to connect nodes of the internet—sometimes spanning thousands of miles underground and beneath the waves.
Some experts say the U.S. might be at a disadvantage if other nations could develop new weapons by resuming underground nuclear tests.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
