Example sentences for: underworld

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

  • Rhyming slang is a feature of colloquial Australian English, but it appears to have been especially intensive in the underworld and in prisons at this time.

  • The whole damn film is a scant 80 minutes, and its second half features, among other things, Satan's soulful "Up There" number (please oh please let them do this at the Academy Awards), Saddam's pleas for sex, "Kyle's Mom Is a Bitch" with a multinational chorus, Kenny's trek through the underworld, Cartman's obscenity chip, the blaspheming French resistance fighter, and the staggeringly brilliant medley on the eve of Armageddon--not to mention Winona Ryder's best performance ever (courtesy of Minnie Driver).

  • ) A book review calls Underworld Don DeLillo's best work.

  • While Dr. Hinkle admits he has barely scratched the surface in his article, yet in Street-Language Naming Practices in the Hispanic Drug and Underworld Subcultures, he goes into great detail and tells us quite a bit (e.g., that a snort of cocaine is called a narizón , from the Spanish nariz, nose, which compares to English slang snootful).

  • Book -- Underworld , by Don DeLillo;


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