Sample sentences for SUBTERRANEAN

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Definition

under the ground

Much more rarely, subterraneancan refer to something that is lying beneath what is easily seen. For example, a "subterranean motive", could refer to a motive that is hidden from others, or even a motive that is not understood by the person who has it.

Mae hadn't seen him since their subterranean encounter, and did not care to.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle

What incomprehensible subterranean force had swelled those immense slopes and lifted the huge bulk aloft to the clouds?
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
Early in the spring of 1943, the mine began to flood with water from subterranean springs.
Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony
The golden fish swam by gracefully, cautiously, as if testing the water after a long sleep in his subterranean waters.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima
The island attracted saltwater fish into its subterranean tunnels—how, I don't know; perhaps fish ate the algae as gluttonously as I did.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
Terrible noises are coming from him and from the dogs as if there is a conversation between them that is subterranean, volcanic.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
She did not hear him cross the courtyard beyond, nor see him pause in the archway that led from the subterranean path into the garden.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
Tom found a subterranean lake, shortly, which stretched its dim length away until its shape was lost in the shadows.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Given that it's subterranean, the place seems surprisingly vast, the ceilings high.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
She suddenly wondered what subterranean connection her interest in Erik had with this affair.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
Or maybe the lair was subterranean, underneath this very commonplace strip mall nestled up against a wooded hill in a nice family neighborhood.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
A deep subterranean, biologically secure complex near Manassas, Virginia.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
For now, it felt like he wanted me, and that was enough to offset the horror of the subterranean tunnel and the prowling vampires behind us.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
The canyon widened; there was a clear demarcation where the red walls gave place to yellow; the brook showed no outlet from its subterranean channel.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
The Mark of Athena blazed to life at the bottom of the cavern, revealing glistening brickwork along a subterranean canal forty feet below.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
He would drill down next to the clinic for subterranean hot water, to fill hot-springs baths.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima
'Subterranean volcanic fires are raging beneath our feet.'
Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
And now we entered what appeared to be a vast subterranean ballroom, carved, as it were, out of a cellar more ancient than the building overhead.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
It was clammy in the basement, an ugly subterranean chill.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
For he thought he heard a soft tread off in the subterranean vaults.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

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