How to Use aboveground in a Sentence

aboveground

adjective
  • The wind picked up her aboveground pool and slammed it against her house.
    — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Access to the aboveground trails will be free.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Americans who sought to cool off in an aboveground pool were out of luck this summer.
    — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Next, use a pool brush and vacuum to scrub the sides and bottom of your aboveground pool.
    — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • There may be more aboveground listings than there are willing dippers.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
  • To make a comeback, the aboveground part of the plant has to have escaped severe damage.
    — Constance Casey, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Consider adding a small aboveground pond ringed with rocks to hide the sides or a standing birdbath.
    — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Lightner and his boss grab a scroll from a coffin and then get outta there, locking the aboveground grave on their way out.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The caverns boast 4 miles of cave passages, as well as over 400 acres aboveground.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Some are only designed for aboveground pools, while others can only be used in inground pools.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Once the snow is gone, a zombie fire can once again ignite aboveground vegetation.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
  • After frost has killed the aboveground vegetation, cut back cannas and dahlias and dig them.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2025
  • His parents were aboveground farmers, too, growing their own produce.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The practice helps provide structural support and reduce the amount of aboveground mine waste.
    — Becki Robins, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Only the gas that is sitting in the pump aboveground is going to vary in temperature.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 June 2026
  • Scores of aboveground tests soon followed, with some even rocketed into the stratosphere.
    — Damian Carrington, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2023
  • During the tornado, the seven of them holed up in a closet in their aboveground basement.
    — Bryan Anselm/redux For Cnn, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The Amargosa is protected along an aboveground length of 15 miles.
    — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Max befriended one at a Walmart store near his home last summer while shopping for aboveground pools to flip.
    — Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 9 June 2021
  • Building on permafrost requires gravel pads that protect the ice from melting, and aboveground pipes.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Patients appeared to have been using at least a portion of the aboveground maternity wards.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Absent cues from the aboveground natural world or data from clocks or phones, our conscious perception of time can get weird, fast.
    — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
  • But perhaps the pillbox wasn’t a bridge abutment, but rather an aboveground overflow tank for the sanitary district.
    — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The good news, Chalhoub said, is that damage from an aboveground blast should not be as severe as that from a serious earthquake.
    — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
  • There will also be another resolution that sets the date for removing all aboveground poles and wires.
    — Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026
  • As sirens warned of incoming rocket fire, the off-duty lookouts ran from their sleeping quarters to an aboveground shelter.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • And the aboveground economy will remain the province of the unindicted sharpers who did such a great job with it in 2008.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • According to the aunt, Tal Idan, the five hostages were kept in aboveground apartments, changing locations at least once.
    — Russell Goldman, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Less than an hour later in our conversation, a siren sent us running for an aboveground shelter the size of a walk-in closet that the farm had recently bought.
    — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
  • There were the aboveground tombs known as chullpas; the cliffside sarcophagi for VIPs; the cave burials.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023

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