How to Use underwater in a Sentence
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So some of the parts to the, the coast would be underwater.
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
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The vast portion of the feed pile will be underwater, out of view.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
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Such a rise would put many of the world's coastal cities underwater.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
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The code to open the safe is underwater, so every agent has to dive down and memorize a part of the code.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2021
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The plan highlights using hydrophones to hear and record the sounds of the underwater world.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
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The body was found in an area that would’ve been about 100 feet underwater and hundreds of yards from shore decades ago.
—al, 26 July 2022
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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
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In the underwater fight near the end, my first take was quite different than what ended up in the film.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Dec. 2024
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In South Sudan, parts of the country have been underwater now for four years.
—Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
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It was spotted in a new underwater mountain range off the coast of Chile.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
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The tiles on the bottom are about 2.2 meters underwater, which is about 7 feet deep.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
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While the underwater world had been evolving and changing, so had the above-water.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
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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
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At the time, the other aircraft was about 21 feet underwater.
—Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
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Parts of Asia’s largest cities are projected to be underwater by the end of the century.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023
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The underwater call of the sperm whale, the earth’s loudest, registers at 230 decibels.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
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The trailer is underwater in likes/dislikes on YouTube, something that isn’t the case for anything else from the show.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
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The East Coast is underwater, the West afire and the highways in-between staggered with urban refugees.
—John Hildebrand, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2022
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The landing craft had at one point been so far underwater that the park service sent divers to the site beginning in 2006.
—Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
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Speed down slides, go on underwater treasure hunts and float down the 1,005-foot lazy river.
—Robin Soslow, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
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About 80% of Falmouth will be underwater, even as high as 10 feet in some portions of town.
—Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 12 May 2022
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The woman wasn’t able to hoist herself up, went underwater, and was not able to resurface, the statement said.
—BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
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Shortly after, a large wave crashed down on the man, pulling him underwater and out of the woman’s line of sight, Baxter said.
—Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2021
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The fact that the stone bridge was underwater provokes the question of its preservation.
—Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2024
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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
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If the vehicle has been underwater for any length of time, there will most likely be a line where the water was.
—Josh Max, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
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Part of the class involves taking off your mask while 20 or 30 feet underwater.
—Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2021
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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
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The underwater egg hunt will include floating and sunken eggs in the shallow end of the pool for participants to collect eggs with their age groups and then turn in eggs for prizes.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
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The crash occurred Thursday morning, less than a mile off the coast of Hurghada, during an underwater excursion to see the coral reef, according to the Russian consulate in Hurghada.
—Jon Haworth, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2025
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