How to Use underwater in a Sentence

underwater

adjective
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  • So some of the parts to the, the coast would be underwater.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • The vast portion of the feed pile will be underwater, out of view.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Such a rise would put many of the world's coastal cities underwater.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
  • To be sure, the U.S. could clear in a matter of weeks any underwater mines from the strait that block oil tankers from passing through.
    — Byjason Ma, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2024
  • In South Sudan, parts of the country have been underwater now for four years.
    — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • It was spotted in a new underwater mountain range off the coast of Chile.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
  • The tiles on the bottom are about 2.2 meters underwater, which is about 7 feet deep.
    — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • While the underwater world had been evolving and changing, so had the above-water.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Although rains stopped three days ago, large swaths of the country remain underwater, and the main rivers, the Indus and the Swat, are still swollen.
    — Munir Ahmed, ajc, 30 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The fact that the stone bridge was underwater provokes the question of its preservation.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2024
  • If Mount Everest were placed into the trench at this point, its peak would still be underwater by more than 1.2 miles.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • And polling shows that while Biden is underwater with Arizona voters, Trump is even more so.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 7 Oct. 2022
  • These underwater forests, made of large brown algae, thrive off the coast, anchored to rocky reefs with their unique holdfast roots.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 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
  • Her Blackfeet tribe, for example, believes there are three realms: the sky world, the below world — that is, Earth — and the underwater world.
    — Bobby Ross Jr., The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2022
  • DJs will be in full swing and the Oasis pool has cabana rentals, lounge chairs, a HydroSpa and underwater speakers.
    — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The first permanent underwater sculpture garden in the U.S. rests right off the shores of Grayton Beach, 58 feet down.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2024
  • Fearful of enemy submarines, the Navy stretched a large steel net across the bay to keep underwater boats from sneaking in.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024
  • 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
  • Scientists used an underwater robot to unearth part of the seafloor and found life, including giant tube worms, teeming beneath it.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024

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