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Example sentences for: underworld

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

Thirty-five obviously feels that these terms which are not specific to the sub-group have assumed a special place in the `argot,' or are used intensively in the underworld or in prison.
' Some of it is Australian underworld slang: fruit for the sideboard `easy pickings,' tank a `safe,' track `prison warder who carries contraband messages or goods out of or into a prison for a prisoner.
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What makes heroin users' life so crazy is that their dependence on an illegal drug forces them to enter a criminal underworld.
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).