underworld
Example Sentences
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Capp notes, "Even in London's seedy underworld, a hat felt essential."
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
In the underworld of social media they are now arguing among themselves.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
The country has a sprawling underworld of clandestine artisanal miners.
From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026
But there is a serious hurdle: U.S. prosecutors have viewed López Serrano as too valuable a source on the Mexican underworld to ship him back south, according to Mexico’s former Atty.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026
And so, like an underworld courier delivering a bag of ill-gotten cash, the modern traveler must steal out of Athens in the dark, and slip into Alexandria when nobody is watching.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Vocabulary lists containing underworld
Reading: Literature - Mythology - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Middle School
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Ancient Greece: Mythology and Literature - Middle School
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