underwater

Example Sentences

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Falling home prices may help with housing affordability, but they also cause more homeowners to go underwater on their mortgage, meaning that they owe more on their home loan than the home is worth.

From MarketWatch

The Karoo Basin, once contiguous with Antarctica—and later underwater and now semi-arid—was a verdant home for what the show says were six basic groups of therapsids.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dubbed the underwater fish disco, for six months a network of speakers have played sounds that deter fish in the Severn Estuary from swimming close to the plant's pipes.

From BBC

About 1.1 million American homeowners were underwater on their mortgages at the end of last year as home prices stalled, signaling a deepening crisis within the housing market.

From MarketWatch

“I thought you said the gators were riding out the storm underwater,” Nicole said.

From Literature