How to Use underwater in a Sentence

underwater

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  • So some of the parts to the, the coast would be underwater.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • In South Sudan, parts of the country have been underwater now for four years.
    — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • While the underwater world had been evolving and changing, so had the above-water.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
  • At the time, the other aircraft was about 21 feet underwater.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Parts of Asia’s largest cities are projected to be underwater by the end of the century.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The underwater call of the sperm whale, the earth’s loudest, registers at 230 decibels.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Speed down slides, go on underwater treasure hunts and float down the 1,005-foot lazy river.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Off the southern coast of the island is a beach called Playa El Cielo, famous for the thousands of underwater starfish scattered across the fine white sand, much like stars in the sky.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Well beneath the waves, the reef is only affected by the underwater tidal surge and currents.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Kadara, said about one-third of Allensworth is underwater and many of its 600 residents have been forced to leave.
    — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Both of my coaches have focused on my underwater kick to push farther and faster.
    — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The nearby La Baells reservoir is down to 25%, and in some places only a trickle of water cuts through the layers of silt that used to be underwater.
    — Emilio Morenatti, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Monday night, the body of 28-year-old Christopher Govoni was found about 55 feet underwater.
    — The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
  • There will be drones flying over the lake, using infrared cameras to seek out heat spots, as well as underwater drones.
    — Jennifer Hassanand Adela Suliman The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2023
  • As the reservoir has declined, portions of Glen Canyon that were underwater for decades are reemerging.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Archaeologists found the treasure trove in a large, sandy area between the beach and the underwater seagrass.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • In the Northeast, floods have put towns underwater, erased entire roadways, and left train tracks eerily suspended 100 feet in the air.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 13 July 2023
  • Books The last American slave ship lies 20 feet underwater.
    — Nick Tabor, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Three researchers maneuvered through the darkness of an underwater cave in Japan.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
  • By the 4th century C.E., the city was mostly underwater.
    — Joshua Learn, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Ferry boats have burned and sunk, just melted into the ocean to create underwater hazards.
    — Bill Weir, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Whole Foods, which had no flood insurance, was eight feet underwater.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The divers’ haul one late-summer Sunday wasn’t much, but there were clumps and clumps of fishing line untangled from underwater objects.
    — Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • By late January, the after images showed the bathtub ring was underwater once again.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Scientists first began to hear and study the elaborate songs of humpback whales in the 1970s, thanks to new underwater microphones.
    — Christina Larson, ajc, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Still, at one point, roughly 25% of the houses in the country were underwater, Lockhart said, and his agency was trying to figure out how to help people stay in their homes.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • In the end, Bongiovi performed the underwater proposal with a different ring, presenting Brown with her moms ring back on the boat.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Sweden’s Saab Group is exporting underwater drones to a host of countries worried about naval mines, like Kuwait.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Those owners who bought a new Tesla when demand peaked and financed their purchase could be underwater on their car loan.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The United States struck five Houthi targets, including an underwater drone, over the weekend.
    — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024

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