8 sentences with 'underground'
Example sentences and phrases with the word underground and other words derived from it.
• « Some Masonic lodges were associated with a much more widespread part of the 'radical' Enlightenment: the vast underground world of illegal publishers and smugglers. »
• « The coal deposits of northern England form part of an underground band of coal reaching into Belgium, eastern France and western Germany. This stretch of land would become the industrial heartland of Europe - you can draw a line on a map of Western Europe from England stretching across the English Channel towards the Alps and trace most of the industrial centres of Europe in the first half of the 19th century. »
• « The Factories Act of 1833 limited child labour in cotton mills, the Miners Act of 1842 prohibited the employment of girls and women (and boys under the age of 10) in the underground, and in 1847 a Ten Hours Act limited the working hours of women and children. »
• « Sartre and Beauvoir had played minor roles in the French Resistance against the Nazis during the war, while Camus had played a more significant role in that he wrote and edited an underground anti-Nazi newspaper, Combat. »
• « Have you noticed that... what they call "congestion" in the underground becomes "atmosphere" in a nightclub? »
• « There are two things the diver wants to retrieve from the underground cavern where he was trapped: the knife he threw into the water so he wouldn't be found dead by his own hand, and the statue of the Virgin of Mount Carmel. »
• « In the face of these pressing problems, water shortages and pollution, explorations are being carried out to find underground rivers. »