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Under in a sentence

Sentence examples for under. Learn how established writers used the word in their sentences. Learn how to imitate them to express your idea.

Dick had three axes under his arm.

She lay in the lower bunk, very big under a quilt.

Her breasts felt plump and firm and the nipples were erect under his hands.

The wagon stopped outside under the big elm and Mrs. Smith and Liz went out.

We sat down at a table under a big tree and the king ordered whisky and soda.

Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns going past pulled by motor-tractors.

She worked out from under him and sat up and straightened her skirt and coat and tried to do something with her hair.

He went under the anaesthetic holding tight on to himself so he would not blab about anything during the silly, talky time.

Some men picked Maera up and started to run with him toward the barriers through the gate out the passage way around under the grandstand to the infirmary.

Before I could reply that he was my neighbour dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.

Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body⁠—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.

The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard⁠—it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.

In 1919 he was traveling on the railroads in Italy, carrying a square of oilcloth from the headquarters of the party written in indelible pencil and saying here was a comrade who had suffered very much under the Whites in Budapest and requesting comrades to aid him in any way.

This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament”⁠—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.

There were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain and the trucks splashed mud on the road and the troops were muddy and wet in their capes; their rifles were wet and under their capes the two leather cartridge-boxes on the front of the belts, gray leather boxes heavy with the packs of clips of thin, long 6.5 mm. cartridges, bulged forward under the capes so that the men, passing on the road, marched as though they were six months gone with child.

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