How to Use underworld in a Sentence

underworld

noun
  • And gang members who try to leave the underworld are hunted down as traitors.
    — New York Times, 30 May 2021
  • Miller tries to avoid slipping back the underworld with the help of an old friend (Rhames).
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 19 May 2022
  • It is bound up with witchcraft, the underworld, night-time and the far side of the Moon.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
  • There was a dark underworld to London.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The hero roamed an underworld where the police were as suspect as the mobsters.
    — George Wead, Slate Magazine, 1 Sep. 2017
  • She was allowed to leave the underworld but had to return for a third of the year, every year.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Guns still change hands in the criminal underworld — but even that supply route has slowed down.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 27 May 2022
  • First, there's Pluto, the god of the underworld, and then Mars, the god of war.
    — Allure, 18 Mar. 2022
  • This is when earthly bears return to their dens, and when the sap of trees returns to the warm womb of the underworld.
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 1 Nov. 2020
  • And like the queen of the underworld, millipedes are ancient.
    — Haley Weiss, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Then there is the Mafia and the Roman underworld side of the story.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
  • And the golden scarab beetle was thought to help in the arduous underworld.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The game even partly takes place in Heaven, unlike past games set in the underworld.
    — Shannon Liao, CNN, 21 Jan. 2020
  • 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, Cincinnati.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Despite the jokes, the town's name has nothing to do with the biblical underworld.
    — Anna Noryskiewicz, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • On the rear wall of the chamber, Seti is welcomed by Osiris, god of the underworld.
    — National Geographic, 25 June 2020
  • The thriller is set in London’s shadowy underworld.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 8 May 2026
  • From the start, Ditko seemed to be drawn to noirish artists who filled the page with black ink to capture the shadowy underworld.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 7 July 2018
  • At the time, Portland had a thriving underworld, thanks to on-the-take cops and politicians.
    — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Or rather, a portal to the underworld is found outside Chicago.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Some of those firearms once belonged to the military or police and were sold into the underworld.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Inch-high avatars stand to scale in lush 3D sets of magical forests, hellish underworlds, even high schools.
    — Eric Francisco, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2025
  • But the story tells how Sedna came to rule over the Inuit underworld.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 6 July 2025
  • But the way Eggers shoots and scores this movie, Winslow might as well be crossing into the underworld.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2019
  • With the money, the greed, comes corruption, and there's a connection to the underworld there.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 25 June 2021
  • The series follows a warrior princess Maya, who is told by the gods of the underworld that her life is forfeit to the god of war.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Cue his descent into a sinister underworld full of masked orgies—and all hell breaking loose.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Don Berna made a mockery of the process, using it as cover to strengthen his control of the city’s underworld.
    — Steven Cohen, The New Republic, 18 June 2018
  • Room Service is the story of a down-on-his-luck man who’s pulled deep into a dark underworld of the ultrawealthy.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Greek myths spoke of the ferryman Charon who carried the souls of the dead across the river Styx to the underworld.
    — Dimitris Sideridis, CNN, 22 Nov. 2021

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