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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.
The terms nicker for a one-pound note and half a nicker for a ten-shilling note are New Zealand expressions that arrived in Britain, and they were also widely used by counterfeiters in the underworld.
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Book -- Underworld , by Don DeLillo;
It is more than a slang dictionary: Simes's own lexicographical analysis of the terms is detailed and impressive, and he also provides a fifty-two page essay on the history of the literature and language of crime and the underworld.