Example sentences for: undercurrents

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

  • The water is generally calm, protected from waves and undercurrents by an outlying coral reef.

  • Other critics rave that "one track after another leaps out at you until you've got 11 new favorite songs" (David Gates, Newsweek ), and that it's 1999's "most relentless gas--laughing or otherwise--of a party album" (Chris Wilman, Entertainment Weekly ). One dissenter takes umbrage at Beck's heavy borrowing from black music: Mike Jenkins writes in the Washington Post that the album "can't escape its minstrel-show undercurrents" and that the album's genre-bending "stunts" sink Beck "deeper in stylistic debt than he can ever repay."

  • At his best, Parker brings out the waltzingly malicious undercurrents in Wilde's "polite" intercourse, and his camera is at just the right distance to catch the anxious flickers of individuality under the socially mandated poses.

  • Look out for red flags warning about dangerous undercurrents, and check to see that beaches are patrolled by lifeguards.

  • It is often impossible for translators, for example, to transfer the implications and undercurrents suggested by modified English spellings into another language.


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