How to Use underwater in a Sentence

underwater

adjective
  • 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
  • The plan highlights using hydrophones to hear and record the sounds of the underwater world.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Speed down slides, go on underwater treasure hunts and float down the 1,005-foot lazy river.
    Robin Soslow, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In search of their treasure, pearl divers have been known to stay underwater for up to seven minutes.
    Andrew Dubbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Take a job at a factory that might be underwater in 15 years?
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Officials said the man had been swimming in the stream and went underwater but did not resurface so his friends pulled him out.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • On May 1, the body of a man was found in a barrel that was previously underwater.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2022
  • One has underwater survey and diving teams that can check on any changes to the seabed in shipping channels and assess the state of wharves.
    Stephen Wright, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The last checkpoint was a swim to an underwater scooter; after obtaining their scooter, the players had to use it to swim and collect tokens.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
  • To make room for divers and unmanned underwater vehicles to covertly enter and exit the Carter while submerged, the Navy built the submarine 100 feet longer than other Seawolves.
    John Ismay, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024

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