How to use "under" in a sentence

The Big Drop Rappel is now just under a kilometre away.

'There are a couple of tourniquets under there,' Steve replies.

My job is to study everything dead or alive under the sea

We could see it because there was a strange light under the water

"I only hope it doesn't go under the water."

I live here, under the sea

"That means that you are free to sec all the wonderful things under the sea

That's why he's here, under the sea

We were prisoners, but it was exciting to see all of the mysteries under the sea.

We were a long way under the sea

'But we can go under it

We went under the ice and came out on the other side

Conseil, Ned and I were in the museum, looking out at old stone walls, 5,000 feet under the sea.

Maybe he is still alive, living under the sea

All I know is that we travelled 20,000 leagues under the sea, from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, through the Reel Sea and the Mediterranean, across the Atlantic and to the North and South Poles

Alice and her big sister sat under a tree one sunny day

Then she saw a little box under the table

Then I can get under the door into the garden.'

Alice stayed under the tree for a short time

She was under it, next to her sister

I was really happy, and I went and sat under a tree and played all day.

She went and sat under a tree on the grass, and began eating an apple

"Resolved: that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend, and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes."

"No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due."

It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our national Constitution

Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief Constitutional term of four years under great and peculiar difficulty

While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself; and I should, under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it

By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals

Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either

A great lover of the British Empire has said that under the British constitution even a successful rebellion is perfectly constitutional, and he quotes historical instances, which I cannot deny, in support of his claim

But I do venture to suggest that it will be highly unconstitutional in the midst of this unconstitutional Government, - in the midst of a nation which has built up its magnificent constitution, - for the people of India to become weak and to crawl on their belly - it will be highly unconstitutional for the people of India to pocket every insult that is offered to them; it is highly unconstitutional for the 70 millions of Mohammedans of India to submit to a violent wrong done to their religion; it is highly unconstitutional for the whole of India to sit still and cooperate with an unjust Government which has trodden under its feet the honour of the Punjab.

Action in this image, action to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors

I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require

They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership

Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms - and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.

'You are seeing me under my real name now for the first time

She looked about forty, and had dark brown hair under her black bonnet

So in less than fifteen minutes the Ripper took Catherine into Mitre square, killed her, mutilated her horribly, and escaped - right under the noses of the police! His escape was amazing

The couple dressed Cosette in rags and gave her very little food, which they made her eat from a wooden bowl under the table

While guests and visitors ate and drank noisily, Cosette - now eight years old - sat in her usual place under the kitchen table

He sat down and Cosette, after serving him some wine, returned to her place under the table

Cosette, who had forgotten about the bread, came out from under the table.

Cosette, who had returned to her place under the table, looked up from her knitting and watched them sadly

One evening, towards the end of winter, Valjean gave some money to a beggar sitting under a streetlamp outside a church

A tall man in a long coat with a stick under his arm.

He kissed the handkerchief, breathed in its perfume, wore it next to his heart by day and kept it under his pillow at night.

Aware of the shape of the notebook under her dress, he said, 'So, you've read my notebook

Cosette had brought her letter case and blotter with her, Valjean his box of child's clothing and the old National Guard uniform which all respectable men possessed, and which he had worn under a previous identity.

He did not know what part of the city he was passing under or how far he had come

The wolf said to her, hiding himself under the bedclothes, "Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and come get into bed with me."

They both look similar: messy blond hair under hats that are the same colour as their khaki shorts and shirts

It cannot be burnt skin under the elegant white scarf.

You want to turn back and run to your room and hide under the blanket and be completely silent and not move.

And he dreams of the suitcase buried under his brother's old garage, and he dreams of the money inside and the paradise in the Bahamas.

So he stops on the edge of the desert, hides the flask of whiskey under the seat and lights a cigarette to cover the smell

Now, not many people come to this side of the forest at this time of the year, but if you see someone you just put the gun down gently in a bush or under some leaves

Because the Oil Wars left the city short of energy, everyone has a small chip buried under the skin on their wrists, which measures how many units of energy they use

The little chip under her skin lit up for a second, showing how many energy units she had left

Instead, there was calm blue ocean as far as they could see, under a cloudless sky

Most of them had at least forty floors above ground - these were called "sky apartments." Below ground, there were often another ten floors, for "earth apartments." The government had started building under the ground long ago, because the land inside the city was so limited.

They'd been standing under one of the shelters at the entrance to the walkway

Gran had a chip buried under her skin like everyone else, but she wore a bracelet to hide it as a small way of protesting about the government's tight control over everyone.

There was a choice of lifelike views in 3D - not as clever as the illusions in the simulator, but they did help the family to forget, at times, that they lived deep under the ground.

"But who knows what there might he under the water!" laughed Cham."

It disappeared under the surface for a moment, so Sala looked around.

After that, you'll have two days of tests, to check that your body is behaving normally under pod conditions."

She watched silently as the red light disappeared under Cham's hand

"What's strange about a letter? I'm talking about the one Mom found under her bed."

She found an old letter under the bed."

I had thought that perhaps we would walk down to the sea, or sit under the great tree on the lawn.

A servant brought rugs and chairs and we all sat under the great tree on the lawn

I sat on the long seat under the window

There was a pair of slippers under a chair.

Mrs Danvers put the slippers back under the chair and walked across the room to a large wardrobe.

Favell whistled quietly under his breath.

Recently she'd been under a lot of pressure, both personally and professionally

The theater was shaped like an enormous fan, spreading under a high domed ceiling

When the stage lights were periodically dimmed, a score of revolving crystal ballroom chandeliers cast swirling splinters of color that seemed to coalesce into supernatural forms that capered under the proscenium arch

A sliver of ice broke loose under her finger and fell onto the nightstand

For several seconds she was certain that she could feel the switch straining under her fingertip as it tried to pop on.

The legs at the foot rose three or four inches before crashing back into the casters, that had been put under them to protect the carpet

Elliot found the bottle of liquid soap and the dishcloth that were stored under the sink

With a chilly night wind moaning at the windows and howling incessantly under the eaves, the blazing fire was welcome.

The vague, shadowy shape of her under the covers, in the darkness, was a talisman to ward off loneliness.

On windy days, the dust was as thick as fog, and it pushed its dirty little cat feet under doors, around windows, and through attic vents.

The tall man pulled a silencer-equipped pistol out of a shoulder holster that was concealed under his gray sports jacket

While he was still under the influence of the drug, they might be able to make him write a suicide note and sign it in a legible, identifiable script

Gas might be leaking under the concrete slab and building up down there, in which case it's possible you wouldn't detect it right away, but you'd still be sitting on top of a bomb."

Elliot had a pretty good idea of what it would feel like, and he was sweating under his arms and in the small of his back, but he didn't move, and he didn't respond to the stranger's taunting.

And even if he was deeper under than I thought, some of his people probably went in there and pulled him out while I was rushing off to you

Tina stopped when they reached the purple light under the mercury-vapor lamp

She said, "Are we both cracking under the strain?"

They put their heads down and scurried past the front of the diner, around the side, through the purple light under the single mercury-vapor lamp, and into the deep shadows behind the building.

And predicting that a runaway dog will be killed in traffic - that's just a reasonable assumption to make under the circumstances

A tiny model of a seventeenth-century Dutch pinnace was perpetually under sail in a small, pale-blue bottle

As Kennebeck turned away from the French frigate, beginning to wonder if he ought to get out from under the Network before it collapsed on him, George Alexander entered the study through the door that opened off the downstairs hallway

He was the best and brightest young officer who ever served under me

If he was aware of his own shortcomings, the son of a bitch would be crushed to death under his collapsing ego.

I'll bet a hundred bucks to a dime Elliot slipped out of town under your nose."

The Cessna Turbo Skylane RG knifed through the darkness, two miles above the Nevada desert, with the low clouds under it, wings plated silver by moonlight.

The cold spell won't last." He squinted into the smaller room, where the boy lay motionless on a hospital bed, under a white sheet and yellow blanket, trailing monitor wires

The crunching and squeaking of the snow under their feet seemed horrendously loud to him, though they actually were making little noise

After the bellman left, Elliot engaged the deadbolt, hooked the security chain in place, and firmly wedged the heavy straight-backed desk chair under the knob.

Elliot was not sure when Tina slipped under the hypnotist's spell, and he had no idea how this smooth mesmerism was accomplished

A brisk wind spilled over the jagged horizon under a low and menacing sky, snapping ice-hard flurries of snow against the windshield of the Explorer.

They drove onto the track, under the roof of heavy evergreen boughs, into the heart of the forest.

But if this is a military operation, then most of the staff is probably assigned here under the same conditions submariners have to live with

The boy blinked, and with what appeared to be great effort, at the cost of more than a little pain, he withdrew one arm from under the covers and reached out toward her

As his legs came out from under the covers, the hospital gown slipped off them, and Tina saw that his poor limbs were too bony and fleshless to safely support him

When she gingerly pulled off the adhesive tape, he whimpered, and she winced when she saw the rawness of his skin under the bandage

He just went right off the rails," Dombey said, obviously embarrassed that one of his colleagues would lose control of himself under those circumstances

He tucked the snowshoes under his arm and took off down the mountain road, the same one I presume you came in on

The book you now hold in your hands - assuming that you are not quadridexterous and holding it with your feet - was the second book I wrote under the pen name Leigh Nichols

If you haven't yet read The Eyes of Darkness, I am giving away nothing important in the story when I tell you that eventually, in a search for her lost son, Tina ventures into the High Sierras in winter, where she comes across a paved road, in the middle of the wilderness, that features heating coils under the pavement to prevent snow from sticking to it

under the steam hammer.'

As Andre's body was released, the trapped blood poured all over the horrible mess revealed under the hammer.

But she would never say why or under what circumstances she had killed Andre

The great mystery was why my brother had so helpfully put his head under the hammer - the only possible explanation for his part in that night's events.

She refused to say why, or how she had got my brother to put his head under it.

What, then, could have made him put his head under that hammer? There were only two possible explanations

I simply and faithfully carried out his last wish by smashing his head and right arm under the steam hammer of his brother's factory.

'Do you remember what was written under that ashtray?'

A moment later he pushed a note under the door

I went back to the house and put Henri to bed, then I returned to the laboratory where I found another note pushed under the door

There was another note under the door.

At last he came to the door and pushed a note under it.

He typed an answer and pushed it under the door.

Then the noise stopped and a sheet of paper came under the door

It was then I noticed that he had forgotten to put his right arm, his fly leg - under the hammer

Seeing, but trying not to look, I ran forward and put the right arm under the hammer

"Who's under that hat?" Mitch thinks.

But to my surprise, she continued along to the end of the passage, then up a narrow staircase and into a large dark room under the roof

'So I put the thing under the desk

And there, with great excitement, I saw something smooth hidden under the leaves

That night, too, there was another sudden cloud of gas from the distant planet as a second missile started on its way to Earth from Mars, just under twenty-four hours after the first one

I climbed into the pit and thought I heard a faint movement under my feet

There was a mouth under the eyes, and its lipless edge shone wetly

I remember the dinner table that evening very clearly even now: my dear wife's sweet, worried face looking at me from under the pink lamp-shade, the white cloth laid with silver and glass, the glass of red wine in my hand

Down the hill I saw some soldiers rush under the railway bridge

I crawled out almost immediately and lay, my feet still in the water, under a bush

He found himself lying under a group of burnt dead men and horses

'It's no kindness to your wife,' he said, 'for you to get killed.' In the end I agreed to go north with him under cover of the woods

'Get under water!' I shouted, but nobody listened.

The stones under my feet were muddy and slippery, and the river was so low that I moved perhaps seven metres before I could get under the surface

The Martian came into sight down the river, most of it under the water

At that moment I got under the water and, holding my breath until movement was painful, swam under the surface for as long as I could

It seemed that she had had a gun all the time, but it had been under her seat when they were attacked

A great cloud of dust, white under the strong sun, made everything within five metres of the ground grey and unclear

Many became stuck together under Tower Bridge, and the sailors had to fight against people who tried to get on from the riverside

He looked past it at the Martians again and saw the three of them now close together, and standing so far out to sea that their legs were almost completely under water.

'It's hit this house and buried us under the ruins!'

By chance the kitchen had escaped and now stood buried under earth and bricks, covered on every side except towards the cylinder

I was not the master now, but an animal among the animals, under the power of the Martians

I came to the edge of Wimbledon Common and stood there, under cover of some trees and bushes

Let's crawl under those bushes and talk.'

'How beautiful,' we said, 'sleeping in the country, under the stars, by the river!'

How wonderful this is! We go to bed, and then we dream under the stars! We dream that the world is young again.'

We stopped at Kempton Park and had lunch under the trees

After a long time, we heard George shout, 'We can't breathe under here! Why don't you help us, you idiot!'

He stayed under the umbrella.

A few people walked past under their umbrellas.

The driver can drop her under the neem trees in the morning and pick her up from there in the evening..

She dug in the earth under the word and found a piece of paper

I took one, using a false name, and Marian and Laura lived in the other under the same name; I said they were my sisters

In 1913, a suffragette called Emily Davison was killed when she threw herself under the king's horse at a famous horse race