Example Sentences

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“This latest action marks a significant escalation in the partnership between the cyber underworlds of these two nations,” Chainalysis said on its blog.

From Washington Times • Sep. 18, 2023

Globally, assorted gods have patrolled assorted underworlds for millennia, with death as their gloomy guard duty.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2022

The “Uncut Gems” creators, Josh and Benny Safdie, are known for their merciless filmmaking style, made up of seedy underworlds and populated with first-time actors cast off the street.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2019

Ancient heroes who wished to grasp the truth of things had to pass through underworlds, or dwell in caves; sometimes, like Oedipus, they could see clearly only once they had been blinded.

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2018

I have assisted at carnivals and feasts in various foreign parts—carnivals of students and also of the theatrically desperate apaches in the crawling underworlds.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas