How to Use the underworld in a Sentence

the underworld

noun
  • Like the oceans, the underworld is vast and dark and full of strange creatures.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • Persephone’s whole deal is that she was held in the underworld against her will.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Like a worm, the Worm Moon emerges from the underworld.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • This is the multi-headed dog that guards the the gates of the underworld.
    — Mark Sovel, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
  • The zone takes its name from Hades, the Greek god of the underworld.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
  • But this tale isn’t an account of some distressed damsel who gets swept up in the underworld.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Some still have coins in their mouths, thought to help secure a safe journey to the underworld.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Minos, the judge of the underworld, is on the extreme right.
    — Virginia Raguin, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Players quickly learn that there are no good guys in the underworld and trust is a weakness.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Anubis, with the head of a jackal, stood at the passage to the underworld.
    — Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Even discussing the events chronicled here is still a huge taboo in the underworld.
    — Jake Adelstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Within the underworld, there’s people that have been in there longer than others.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The god was thought to have been tricked into giving up his kingdom, and exiled to the underworld.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Cold, dark and distant, it was named after the Roman god of the underworld.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The very next day, Fisher heads into the underworld for his first visit.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2023
  • It was believed this was a time when the veil was lifted between our world and the underworld to commune with the dead.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
  • This heightened tension had made Miguel’s sources in the underworld even more jumpy than usual.
    — Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This is the underworld that Michlewitz and the rest of his thug pals come out of, and will protect at all costs.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Persephone, goddess of spring and the fields, became the spouse of Hades, who ruled the underworld.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • Osiris is the Egyptian god of the underworld and Ra is the Egyptian sun god.
    — Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 11 July 2024
  • Osiris is the Egyptian god of the underworld, and Ra is the Egyptian sun god.
    — Nasha Smith, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Not many players in the recent history of college football have gone to the underworld and come back alive.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • To keep her safe Hekate’s mother leaves her in the underworld with the goddess Styx and Hades.
    — Amber McBride, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The ancient Maya saw caves as openings to the underworld and often left artifacts in them.
    — Maria Abi-Habib Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The myth of Persephone, who every year returns from the underworld, was used to explain the change of the seasons.
    — Elinda Labropoulou, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The film tells a tale of a demon slayer who comes to the rescue of a young girl trapped in the underworld — and who then takes the kid on as an apprentice.
    — Mathew Scott, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
  • Caves were sacred to the ancient Maya, who saw them as portals to Xibalba, the underworld.
    — Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Gary has descended into the underworld in pursuit of Prince Hat, found him, and brought him home again.
    — Kristen Roupenian, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In the stories of ancient Greece, to get to the underworld after death required a journey by boat over a river.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
  • Ancient Mayans believed cenotes were sacred portals to the underworld, where gods and spirits dwelled.
    — Ryan Brennan april 4, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2026

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