Example sentences for: underworld

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

  • North of Denderah is Abydos, 150 km (93 miles) from Luxor, and erected for the worship of Osiris, God of the Underworld.

  • This article gives a brief history of underworld slang and an extensive listing of underworld terms in use in Melbourne in the 1860s.

  • 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.

  • ' 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.

  • We know that the language of the Calcuttan underworld contains more than forty words for police and more than twenty for bomb .


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