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beneath

At a lower position. The book is beneath the table. The garage is beneath the road.

beneath

(= below) in or to a place that is lower

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Simple sentences

The ice will crack beneath our weight.
It is beneath him to say such a thing.
That is beneath ordinary decency.
It is beneath you to say such a thing.
And in the Indian Ocean, some islands of the Maldives will disappear completely beneath the water.
He also thought about the birches in the depths of the valley where, according to him, at a depth of several meters beneath the surface some moisture was hidden.
The eagle perched atop the cliff, scanning the valley spread out beneath it.
Europa and Enceladus are thought to have an ocean of liquid water beneath their surface.
Suddenly the ground seemed to disappear from beneath my feet.
Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child beneath the sun.
There are parts of land today that used to be far beneath the ocean waters.
Beneath the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, lies a liquid ocean that may have more water than Earth contains.
I hid the book beneath the carpet.
The money was hidden beneath the floorboards.
It is beneath my dignity to ask a favor.
He took it from beneath his coat.
He is beneath her in rank.
There are as many vipers hiding in the grass as there is evil lying beneath a beautiful countenance.
Tom is sitting beneath the tree.
They snuggled tightly beneath the blankets.
An unknown number of victims may be trapped beneath the rubble.

Movie subtitles

Would she fit beneath the bed, mom?
The key question is; how far down does the water persist beneath the surface and if you go far enough, is the pressure and temperature high enough that the water would be liquid, not in the form of ice?
This job, this humiliation, it's beneath me.
And there was Christian, the heart of Cyrano beneath his doublet, the love words of Cyrano upon his lips. Happy lover, happily beloved.
Lyin' out there beneath a blanket of stars, with that old moon smiling' down on you.
I saw his sandal beneath the curtain.
My men have died beneath his sword.
So to those of these men. whose last resting place is beneath the sea they loved. we pay our humble tribute. as we cast these wreaths and flowers. upon the waters of their outgoing tide.
This game is beneath one's honor.
Beneath the vine.
Our souls impatient for their hour, While yoked beneath a fateful power Our country calls to us, heart-stricken.
It offends my vanity to have anyone who was even remotely my wife remarry so obviously beneath her.
No more than the sand beneath your feet. or the stone that we became.
Naturally; he's beneath himself.
And I'd like to see you small and low and poor, far beneath me, reachable to my feet.
I want to spread myself out beneath your feet.
But the part I like best is the night. Lying out there beneath a blanket of stars, with that old moon smiling down on you.
When even diamonds grow dull beneath the sparkle of your eyes.
Incidentally, our rooms are beneath all contempt, Your Excellency.
Do you still say that your wife's fall from Dover cliff to the rocks beneath..
I stepped on some pebbles when I was directly beneath him and..
As you know, I rarely play the guitar beneath your window.
They buy it from the king, and sell it to those beneath.
And women that stand for such things are beneath contempt. I'll never be one of them.
Such crass pleasures are beneath you.
Sometimes it turns into a roller coaster right beneath your feet.
Beneath their rough exteriors, they really have hearts of platinum.
When I'm with you, I see depths in your eyes that are like the worlds I visit in sleep, and beneath your words is a sound I've heard in dreams.
Beneath the bed, I was to leave. an object no larger than a can of sardines.
Why allow such hatred to remain beneath the surface festering?
They are probably flying over Rio de Janeiro now where, beneath that unbelievably blue sky, with the strumming of guitars.
I hope you get into the Army someday and the last thing that happens to you. before you sail away, the last thing you have to treasure. while you're fighting beneath foreign skies is a kiss from the superintendent!
I married beneath me.
The same subtle cruelty just beneath the surface.
So many nights I've passed beneath these windows in the dark, happy just to see the lights, knowing Angelina and Tonino would be at the table.
He'll go dancing beneath the bright lights, where he'll meet Miss Marie.

News and current affairs

Some companies even seem to celebrate the melting of the polar ice cap, because it will reduce the cost of extracting the oil that lies beneath the Arctic Ocean.
How can you go home again if the sea has been sucked down a vast drain that opened up beneath it, emptying it who knows where, into a void?
But, beneath the surface, unease in the bilateral relationship persists, partly for historical reasons.
Joint exploration and development of the resources within and beneath the archipelago could then begin.
Indeed, there is volatility just beneath the surface.
In the world of old, the West's economic malaise already would have pulled the rug from beneath most emerging-market countries.
KYIV - The world's center of gravity is heading eastward so fast that we Europeans can almost feel the ground moving beneath our feet.
Beneath the self-congratulation, however, was the widespread feeling that both institutions are failing badly, and need fundamental reform.
Beneath the surface, huge imbalances were building up, resulting in debt-fueled real-estate booms in the euro periphery.
Social tensions bubbling beneath the surface could well add fuel to the crisis of confidence.
MUMBAI - In most cities of South Asia, hidden beneath the grime and neglect of extreme poverty, there exists a little Somalia waiting to burst out and infect the body politic.
Beneath the Arab political revolutions lies a deeper and longer process of radical change that is sometimes called the information revolution.
Beneath the surface, however, Iran is no longer Ayatollah Khomeini's sharia state.
Yet beneath Iraq's chaos and the rubble, a rough and tumble private sector has been expanding since the US invasion, benefiting from higher oil revenues and more liberal economic policies.
Beneath the headlines of the historic deal lies a limited and ambiguous agreement.
Beneath the surface are many threatening cracks.
But, beneath the surface, an unbalanced, unstable, uncoordinated, and unsustainable economy risks losing its capacity for resilience.
The West's relations with Russia since the end of the Cold War have resembled the meeting of two tectonic plates, with one progressively forced beneath the other.
The oceans' heat content is measured by a network of more than 3,000 free-drifting robotic floats spread out across the world's waters, where they routinely dive 2,000 meters beneath the surface.
The Archaeological Survey of India, however, reported the existence of ruins beneath the demolished mosque that might have belonged to an ancient temple.
When the peat ignites, the fire can creep beneath the surface and erupt somewhere else, days or weeks later.

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