understructure
Example Sentences
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When firefighters arrived, they found the man fully underneath the train but not trapped or pinned down by the understructure, Humphrey said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024
Crappie are good with minnows and jigs suspending over structure or understructure.
From Washington Times • Jul. 8, 2020
The 2016 Volt is the first full redesign of the car, including a new understructure, bodyshell, interior, engine, Voltec powertrain, and upgraded battery.
From Forbes • Dec. 31, 2014
When I wrote The Sportswriter, I was writing with a loose understructure that only I knew about and that probably isn’t detectable by the reader.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2014
He dried him with the blanket, kneeling there in the glow of the light with the shadow of the bridge’s understructure broken across the palisade of treetrunks beyond the creek.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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