Example sentences for: subterranean

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

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

  • The Rolling Stones, darker, more subterranean, and with a deeper rhythm section, are more in touch with Dionysius.

  • 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.

  • It's the old load of subterranean conspiracies and climactic rat-a-tat--with a new, post-Rodney King acknowledgment that white cops who rough up minority suspects are the rule, not the exception.

  • Chloë Sevigny pulls off some uncanny transitions in Boys Don't Cry , and they're all subterranean: Great as Hilary Swank is, it's Sevigny's performance that really captures the mystery at that movie's core.


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