How to Use underlie in a Sentence

underlie

verb

• A tile floor underlies the rug.
• A theme of revenge underlies much of her writing.
• The river is underlain by limestone.
• We discussed the principles that underlay their methods.
• The state declined to release any of the underlying data to The Post.
  — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
• But the Capri is not just a different body on top of the same underlying car.
  — James Morris, Fortune Europe, 9 Aug. 2024
• Since oil and stocks are both risky, this could underlie the tendency of the two to move in tandem.
  — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2022
• Turns out there are a lot of twists and turns that underlie this seemingly easy task.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• And the conflict between these two philosophies of sport is one of the underlying tensions of the Games.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• Pace is one of the six accusers whose stories underlie the charges against Kelly.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2021
• And the dual exhaust ports that exit toward the top of the car underlie the uniqueness of the ICE portion of the power train.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 15 July 2021
• But the underlying structure of Mountain West football is the same as last year.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
• Plans to lower debt to no more than three times its underlying cash earnings by the end of next year will likely not be reached.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
• In the normal course of things, there’d be an underlying indictment, but the DOJ never filed one.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 July 2023
• The 5th Circuit's decision dismissed a part of the lawsuit that challenged the FDA's underlying approval of the drug at all.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• While figuring out the underlying cause of puffy eyes can get a bit tedious, eye creams are one of the best ways to address this issue in a pinch.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
• The boundary and event cells seemed to fire in tandem with theta waves, which underlie important ways for the brain to change and make new connections.
  — Tino Delamerced, STAT, 10 Mar. 2022
• In fact, public records bear out the voting patterns that underlie these concerns in key states.
  — Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 22 July 2021
• The ruling clears the way for such betting to resume while the court further considers the underlying issues in the case.
  — Wayne Parry, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
• In Hitchcock, the glamour underlies the threat, but threats underlie the glamour.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
• The underlying number - the core number is more around 4.1 percent.
  — CBS News, 30 July 2023
• The first is the simple one: the underlying technology wasn’t good enough.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 8 June 2024
• Treating symptoms works for a while, but inevitably the underlying cause gets worse.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
• The past year has been a time to think critically about the structures that underlie decisions like these.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
• The thought may have underlain his decision to support the Willow complex.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
• In that case, Gravy cleared the underlying music (which Astley does not own) but failed to secure a license to sample the master.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2024
• The decline in gas prices owes in large part to a steep drop in the cost of crude oil, the underlying commodity that refineries turn into gas.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• Based on the system's underlying principle, Harris is set to claim the White House.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• The themes are interchangeable; the underlying format remains the same.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
• The underlying tensions connected to Israel’s pre–October 7 blockade of Gaza—the very tensions that fueled Hamas’s initial attack—have not been addressed.
  — John Spencer, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024