How to Use underworld in a Sentence

underworld

noun
  • Black and navy are the Romy and Michele of the underworld.
    — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Sep. 2022
  • First, there's Pluto, the god of the underworld, and then Mars, the god of war.
    — Allure, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Then there is the Mafia and the Roman underworld side of the story.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
  • It is bound up with witchcraft, the underworld, night-time and the far side of the Moon.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
  • By the late 1970s, the Guzmán clan had emerged as a rising force in the Sinaloa drug underworld.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Miller tries to avoid slipping back the underworld with the help of an old friend (Rhames).
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 19 May 2022
  • On the rear wall of the chamber, Seti is welcomed by Osiris, god of the underworld.
    — National Geographic, 25 June 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At the time, Portland had a thriving underworld, thanks to on-the-take cops and politicians.
    — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2021
  • And like the queen of the underworld, millipedes are ancient.
    — Haley Weiss, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The hero roamed an underworld where the police were as suspect as the mobsters.
    — George Wead, Slate Magazine, 1 Sep. 2017
  • She is summoned back on the Day of the Dead with a mission: to escort her husband, Diego Rivera, to the underworld.
    — Thomas May, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • And gang members who try to leave the underworld are hunted down as traitors.
    — New York Times, 30 May 2021
  • But, her mission won't come easy thanks to the Prince of Hell, Caliban, who is also out to get the top spot in the underworld.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The Gates of Hell, where Nox's underworld beasts do his bidding, is the longest of the all the haunted houses at the park, Claussen said.
    — Yadira Sanchez Olson, Lake County News-Sun, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Over 2,000 years ago, the Aztecs believed the spirits of their ancestors passed on to the underworld.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 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
  • She’s one of the three Furies, known as Alecto, who loyally serves Hades, the god of the underworld.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 June 2022
  • 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
  • The movie takes place in the gritty underworld of Ryme City, where humans and Pokémon live side-by-side.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The game even partly takes place in Heaven, unlike past games set in the underworld.
    — Shannon Liao, CNN, 21 Jan. 2020
  • At the end of his lecture, Dylan describes the moment in the Odyssey when Odysseus visits Achilles in the underworld.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 6 June 2017
  • Researchers liken it to an entrance to a secret lair: The steps descend to a dark and dusty underworld.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • And the golden scarab beetle was thought to help in the arduous underworld.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Then some of his young students are kidnapped by child traffickers and Alex descends into the criminal underworld; nothing can prepare you for the bananas final 45 minutes as Foster lays waste to the siege of villains in his dojo.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025

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