How to Use underwater in a Sentence

underwater

adjective
  • Such a rise would put many of the world's coastal cities underwater.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
  • The vast portion of the feed pile will be underwater, out of view.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Whose idea was the underwater stunt at the end of the season?
    — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The Loongs have been trapped in an underwater prison for a loooong time.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The divers had been underwater for about two hours and had failed to resurface.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 20 May 2026
  • Take your snorkel and mask—the underwater scenery here is stunning.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Questions, like how many underwater mines are still out there?
    — April 17, NPR, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Remove any buds and twigs that will be underwater.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Each collector is equipped with a small underwater sail that moves back and forth as waves pass.
    — New Atlas, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Ten million years ago, the area was underwater and teeming with sharks.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2020
  • When the underwater robot dove deep, the science team saw red.
    — Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The poison burst forth from evenly spaced holes, in cloudy underwater plumes.
    — Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Just toss dive toys in the pool and let your kid embark on their underwater adventure.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026
  • It was spotted in a new underwater mountain range off the coast of Chile.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
  • One went underwater and did not resurface.
    — Doug Myers, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • In the underwater fight near the end, my first take was quite different than what ended up in the film.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The code to open the safe is underwater, so every agent has to dive down and memorize a part of the code.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Much of this prehistoric area is buried underwater today, but not all of it.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In search of their treasure, pearl divers have been known to stay underwater for up to seven minutes.
    — Andrew Dubbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The plan highlights using hydrophones to hear and record the sounds of the underwater world.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Police said the child went underwater along the east side of the catwalk and just south of the lighthouse.
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • The buyers who showed up at $650 are underwater and a new group hasn't shown up yet.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The grapes may grow above ground, but sometimes the final product can be found underwater.
    — Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 28 Jan. 2026
  • At the same time, much of the boardwalk ideally would have been underwater.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • While the underwater world had been evolving and changing, so had the above-water.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Take a job at a factory that might be underwater in 15 years?
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Visiting the lake, Chavez walked on sandy ground that used to sit underwater.
    — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • No other country is known to be building underwater drones this big.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 25 June 2026
  • It’s also known as being underwater on your loan or upside down.
    — Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Also my grandkids would go underwater and watch my breaststroke, or sit in the hot tub and give me thumbs up or thumbs down.
    — New York Times, 6 July 2021

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