How to Use aboveground in a Sentence

aboveground

adjective

• The wind picked up her aboveground pool and slammed it against her house.
  — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2020
• Next, use a pool brush and vacuum to scrub the sides and bottom of your aboveground pool.
  — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• To make a comeback, the aboveground part of the plant has to have escaped severe damage.
  — Constance Casey, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
• In the early evening of Nov. 2, around the time Rania and the girls were usually aboveground having tea, a strike hit the house.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• To her shock, Ms. Zampieri found olms on aboveground jaunts not just in the nighttime but also in broad daylight.
  — Elizabeth Anne Brown, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• True or false: All of the gold ever mined still exists as aboveground stock, and there are no signs of that changing.
  — Victor Reklaitis, WSJ, 4 May 2017
• Americans who sought to cool off in an aboveground pool were out of luck this summer.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
• And the aboveground economy will remain the province of the unindicted sharpers who did such a great job with it in 2008.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• Consider adding a small aboveground pond ringed with rocks to hide the sides or a standing birdbath.
  — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
• The Amargosa is protected along an aboveground length of 15 miles.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
• There were the aboveground tombs known as chullpas; the cliffside sarcophagi for VIPs; the cave burials.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023
• The high point is the Polar Plunge, in which hardy souls will jump into aboveground swimming pools to raise money for the Special Olympics.
  — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2021
• The aboveground section runs from Mondawmin to Owings Mills.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2018
• The practice helps provide structural support and reduce the amount of aboveground mine waste.
  — Becki Robins, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2022
• During the tornado, the seven of them holed up in a closet in their aboveground basement.
  — Bryan Anselm/redux For Cnn, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
• According to the aunt, Tal Idan, the five hostages were kept in aboveground apartments, changing locations at least once.
  — Russell Goldman, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• There may be more aboveground listings than there are willing dippers.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
• At the same time, PG&E’s older network poses dangers as aboveground power lines have the ability to spark the next major fire with the next gust of wind.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019
• The good news, Chalhoub said, is that damage from an aboveground blast should not be as severe as that from a serious earthquake.
  — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
• Max befriended one at a Walmart store near his home last summer while shopping for aboveground pools to flip.
  — Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 9 June 2021
• Once the snow is gone, a zombie fire can once again ignite aboveground vegetation.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
• To those familiar with Israel’s aboveground tensions, Mr. Zlekha Levy’s project at the reservoir could seem like a gimmick.
  — New York Times, 23 July 2022
• Scores of aboveground tests soon followed, with some even rocketed into the stratosphere.
  — Damian Carrington, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2023
• But perhaps the pillbox wasn’t a bridge abutment, but rather an aboveground overflow tank for the sanitary district.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2021
• For the past decade, Wendy Bowman has blocked the aboveground expansion of another mine 10 miles from Singleton.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
• Building on permafrost requires gravel pads that protect the ice from melting, and aboveground pipes.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• The threat is even worse for domesticated honey bees, who live in aboveground hives and can’t hunker underground the way wild bees can.
  — Natalie Hamilton, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2021
• Patients appeared to have been using at least a portion of the aboveground maternity wards.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
• In the Central Valley alone, the unused aquifer space where water has been drained by pumping could hold more than three times the total capacity of the state’s aboveground reservoirs, Fogg said.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• Out of his garage in Jackson Heights, away from the noisy drum of the aboveground 7 train, Chogyal, now in his mid-70s, prepares tsampa, or roasted barley, a staple often considered to be the national food of Tibet.
  — Tenzin D. Tsagong, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024