Example sentences for: subterranean

How can you use “subterranean” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the case of wowser there is the tantalizing possibility that a conjectural use of the word occurs in 1879 in just the sort of context that would fit this theory and make its subterranean existance a reality: but all we have to go on is w--s , and not many lexicographers would chance their arm on that!

  • The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.

  • The tension between Coalwood's malignant, subterranean caverns and the allure of space exploration has so much resonance that the story doesn't need the hard sell.

  • Blocked by the present political mood from acting in a direct, sensible way to create government programs where they are needed, Democrats would be tempted to operate Waxman-style, in an inefficient, subterranean way.

  • The subterranean rumbling resumed for a moment, making it clear the answer should be obvious.


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