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• Thresher maws are subterranean carnivores that spend their entire lives eating or searching for something to eat.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Thresher Maws Codex entry. From the entry spore
• This subterranean temple was rather like an inverted skyscraper, an earthscraper, perhaps.2008, Alan Burt Akers, Gangs of Antares: Dray Prescot 45. From the entry earthscraper
• Compared with geomyids, little is known about the roles of other subterranean rodents in ecological succession.2000, Guy N. Cameron, “Chapter Six: Community Ecology of Subterranean Rodents”, in Eileen A. Lacey, James L. Patton, Guy N. Cameron…. From the entry geomyid
• "Flowering shrubs don't thrive in the subterranean caverns from which geysers spring," suggested Bradley.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry beats me
• Its gardens are watered by rivers that invariably flow underground, like the subterranean qanats developed by the Persians.2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 127. From the entry qanat
• The most specialized fossorial mammals (moles, marsupial mole) are subterranean, seeking food and shelter underground and rarely coming to the surface.2006, Kenneth D. Rose, The Beginning of the Age of Mammals, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN. From the entry fossorial
• The charismatic 29-year-old Harlemite is the premier gladiator in a subterranean realm where the quest for flyness is the prime directive.1999, Vibe, volume 7, numbers 1-2. From the entry flyness
• Joolby was—ethnologically at all events—white, a person of obvious means, and in various subterranean ways reputedly powerful, Mr.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry ethnologically
• We have the means for navigating a subterranean river.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry thirst
• The reason for all this quarrying is not the discovery of a coal-rich seam beneath the Wrenaissance streets, but the local enthusiasm for subterranean development.2012 November 9, Oliver Wainwright, “Billionaires' basements: the luxury bunkers making holes in London streets”, in The Guardian. From the entry Wrenaissance
• No rib foundation appears ever to have been designed for subterranean vaulting like that commonly found elsewhere in Roman caveas to support seating.1989, Hesperia, volume 58, page 35. From the entry cavea
• The sunlight streamed down on them through the smoke-hole overhead, but spread only a dim twilight through the remoter recesses of the vast subterranean chamber.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 234. From the entry smoke-hole
• Hidden from its broader surrounding, a labor of moles can toil with the materiality of its existence — Earth — but must always heed barriers to their subterranean sphere.2014 Fall, Cyrus Shahan, Environment, Space, Place, volume 6, number 2, Zeta Books, page 118. From the entry labour
• We'd emerge from the subterranean station into Forty-second Street's urban blightscape: the tawdry glow of crumbling old theaters; noisy-clanging-beeping pinball arcades; greasy luncheonettes; and cheap-looking hookers.2009, Nelson George, City Kid, unnumbered page. From the entry blightscape
• The sense of eeriness is gradually dispelled, replaced by a mounting sense of exhilaration and wonder as López de Heredia uncorks bottles in the subterranean tasting room.2006, Jay McInerney, A Hedonist in the Cellar, Adventures in Wine. From the entry tasting room
• The dealer’s stated provenance for these pieces was Shan-hsien, Honan Province, an area that, in spite of its many tumuli, never was known for its subterranean treasures.1973, Jan Fontein, Tung Wu, “Introduction”, in Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21. From the entry Ling-pao

Meaning of subterranean

1. adjective Below ground, under the earth, underground.
2. adjective Secret, concealed.
3. noun Someone or something that is subterranean.

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How do you use subterranean in a sentence?

Subterranean is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “A day when people from all walks of life set aside their differences and focus their undivided attention on the prognostication abilities of a subterranean rodent.”

What is a short sentence with subterranean?

“Reparata in the subterraneans of the Duomo.”

What does subterranean mean?

Subterranean means below ground, under the earth, underground.