How to Use go underground in a Sentence

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  • The ride is billed as the world's first drop ride to go underground, according to the park website.
    Amir Vera, CNN, 27 Sep. 2021
  • People had thought that by now the Ukrainian army may have to go underground.
    NBC News, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Soon, to Shakespeare 5 What might thwart those plotting to go underground?
    Robyn Weintraub, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Many Ukrainians have attempted to flee the country, or have been forced to go underground to seek shelter.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The director of the grand gallery explained to The Washington Post that if the heritage and history are to survive, all must go underground.
    Carmela Chirinos, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Instead, those who are wary of the vaccine go underground, such as the people who tried to slip out from Rwanda to neighboring Congo.
    Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Wars don’t end, but go underground; loss leads to resentment and then retrenchment, and a century and a half later, the conflict returns in new forms.
    Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Others wanted the line to go underground to prevent disruptions.
    Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • And when levels advance and get darker and go underground, the music — a spacious, slap bass sound — gets more patient, prodding players to be more careful in their timing.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • With a threat as lucrative as ransomware, where attackers can afford to take weeks or months off to go underground and regroup, US officials are going to have to work even harder to get ahead of the game.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Jess and Phil go underground and uncover frightening piles of bones as well as potential human remains in the backwoods of Tennessee.
    Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2020
  • For those preferring to go underground, Artillery Bar offers bespoke craft cocktails — and an extensive list of American whiskies — in a speakeasy setting.
    Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Many, say organizers, have chosen to go underground and hope for a new administration.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Mandating that tobacco cigarettes have a lower nicotine content would encourage smokers to smoke more to get the same nicotine effect — or to go underground to ...
    Jessica Melugin, National Review, 1 July 2022
  • Unfortunately, this is going to cause people to go underground.
    USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Perhaps future generations of astronauts, tasked with building permanent homes on the moon, could go underground, away from the lunar elements.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 29 July 2022
  • Nevertheless, Sharon was forced to go underground and operate as the Power Broker, a black market art dealer, funder of supersoldier serum projects and general shady person.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Apr. 2021
  • His predecessors had rejected a Metro station on campus decades earlier and called for the Purple Line to go underground, significantly increasing the cost.
    Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • When the neighbors complain and police take notice, the brothels go underground and move to another location, popping up in new places owned by various limited liability corporations that conceal their ownership.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021

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