undersong

Example Sentences

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The undersong of Dot’s unconscious gets lost in all the quotidian bustle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

The undersong here is underplumage: those jewel-like greens and purples and reds you can spot beneath the oil-slick surface of certain black-feathered birds.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017

The saw hummed an undersong of strong vibration.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward

Beneath the chorus of their hearts' joy there was an undersong of discord; and neither knew of the other's perplexity.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir

It called the support of The Examiner “the sweet undersong of the weekly journal.”

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette