Example sentences for: underbelly

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

  • With geeky charm, it patiently explored the plane's engineering; it literally walked you down into the underbelly, a beautiful abstract maze of crisscrossing steel.

  • Here in the Bible Belt, we've learned to desensitize ourselves to the crass underbelly of organized religion.

  • But then, like an endearment to a beloved one, they will murmur “pashmina” and spread before you a shawl of soft, warm wool shorn, they tell you, from the underbelly of the wild Himalayan goats.

  • Reviews have been mixed, but smart critics who should have known better have dismissed Broomfield's journalistic malevolence as fun, wacky, postmodern, an expose of the seamy underbelly of fame by a renegade who eschews the boring objectivity of the documentary tradition.

  • Complaints: 1) Gatsby (sung by tenor Jerry Hadley) lacks "the vocal flexibility or top notes to capture Gatsby's sentimental underbelly and heroic decency" (Philip Kennicott, the Washington Post ); 2) it's slow (Gatsby takes 45 minutes to show up).


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