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Sentence Examples They then move through the underworld on a long journey to their spiritual home of Hawaiki. Namie introduced her to the seedy underworld, but not the yakuza one, that being a rich teenager in Tokyo had to offer. It seemed like the entire black elite of America was there and also a large number of underworld thugs. He is suspected of being a hired hitman able to supply guns and ammunition to contacts in the criminal underworld. If there's no washing machine, you may have to venture to the underworld which is the laundrette. He was very well-regarded by a lot of people and he bridged the gap between respectable society and the underworld. The police are trying their best, but all they can do is make nightly raids on the underworld and round up Dusseldorf's riff-raff. They were not chucking things away any old how, but instead made sure that each item carried the maximum message to the underworld. Gangs of the underworld approach, automatics blazing, but they can do little to stop the man. Women in the Mafia have been documented as a rising trend in Italy's criminal underworld. Bear representations are evident, and several fragments appear to represent Mishipishu, the principal manitou of the Algonquian underworld. We are both Scottish and we both do figurative paintings set in a seedy underworld. Stationed in Boston Father Smith is drawn into the seedy underworld of cockfighting. Mario then plunges into the seedy underworld of drugs in order to rescue his daughter. Then the drought broke, and for a few years the underworld throbbed with life. Clearly this is television aimed at rich people, so they can have a vicariously tingly peek into the seedy underworld of carjacking. Reports that the guns might be destined for sale to the drugs underworld were dismissed as pure speculation. The forwards, ie, the sharks of the political underworld are opportunists but each with a different strength. There's a lot of black money involved in match-fixing activities and we're scrutinising if this has a connection with the underworld. The violent, bloodthirsty gang who are holding him are notorious throughout the criminal underworld. Show More Sentences He introduces him to the criminal underworld and, as partners, they rob and beat men in darkened alleys. The criminal underworld was considering hiring foreign hit-men for a possible assassination attempt. Too late they discover that he is an underworld crime lord, and that crossing him results in an inevitable slow and painful death. He deals with all sorts of crime in the underworld of this city, from petty theft to murder, and everything in between. A number of journalists were attacked in 2003 as a result of their investigation into the criminal underworld. It is suggested that an underworld crime figure planned to grab the mother and her child and to demand a six figure sum. Detectives hunting a gunman who executed a father-of-three in a gangland murder have appealed to the criminal underworld to help nail the killer. They have run the biggest drug businesses, which have been going for a long time, very successfully, in the criminal underworld. In the city, corruption runs rampant, from the government offices to the gangland hangouts of underworld figures. In the famous sixth book of the Aeneid, Aeneas travels to the underworld in search of his father, Anchises. Pluto is the mythological ruler of the underworld, the keeper of dark secrets. Persephone was forced to live a dual life in both the underworld and earth after eating the pomegranate seeds given to her by Hades. Both were mighty queens in the underworld where they cast light upon the dead in their darkness. The last of the Titans, Typhon was the son of the earth and the underworld. And I will be more powerful than any other on the face of the earth or in the underworld. Like Orpheus bringing Eurydice out of the underworld, it seems the novelist cannot look directly at love without losing it. In the myth she was abducted by the God of the underworld, Pluto, and stolen away to his kingdom of Hades. The spirit assumes the appearance of a dead man and goes down to the underworld. Alice asked, craving more answers from this plethora of magical knowledge Clay seemed to possess about the underworld and earth. To gain entrance to this forbidden domain she threatened to break down the gates of the underworld, free the dead and devour the living. Show More Sentences When Aeneas travels to the underworld, as most heroes do, he is accompanied by Sibyl, his guide sent by Apollo. She also guides Persephone to the underworld and back twice a year and thus has a part to play in the seasons. During the last six millennia, the hero's journey to the underworld of the dead has been a main part of epic storylines. The secrets of this murky underworld are revealed here, for the first time, in a transcript of a secret telephone conversation. They come from all walks of life, all nations, rich and poor, educated and unlettered, religious and secular, respectable and underworld. Of all the creatures on the Carrizo, the endurance champion of the underworld is the spadefoot toad. Early in the project, when asked by journalists, I simply spieled off theories of excarnation and an inverted underworld. Hermes used a magic rod, the caduceus, with which he practised magic and it was this caduceus, which gained him entry into the underworld. Although they are amphibians, caecilians are denizens of the terrestrial underworld. I know it's a lot, but for an established information brokerage with underworld contacts and everything it's an absolute steal. In this underworld, the movement turned more satisfyingly aggressive, with influences of capoeira and African dance. As the film's Orphean tale unfolds, a young writer-poet-musician descends into the absinthe-soaked, decadent underworld in search of ideal love. In ancient times, heroes traveled to the underworld before they dreamt of seeing heaven. Among these many worlds, the underworld of that age was representative of the outrageous, brash and lawless life. Although he was outwardly respectable, he was known to have underworld connections and to have used a notorious thug in his shadier dealings. Mr Hale claims he has also received underworld information which points to the murder being a professional hit. As the subway moved through the underworld dimness of fluorescent light and darkness, he considered the pasty faces of the car's riders. By their very nature, underworld deals are negotiated and sealed in cloak-and-dagger secrecy. By coincidence, a few hours earlier one of White's many underworld contacts had phoned offering information. Apparently, Ray and Ribeiro went ahead with their undercover operations, using informers and infiltrators from the underworld. Show More Sentences The Review, meanwhile, was uncovering the city's underworld, its gangsters and corrupt officials, its brutality and greed. But it's done nothing to silence the critics, who are still baying for a new, independent body to tackle crooked cops and underworld gangsters. Too late they discover that Hale is an underworld crime lord, and that crossing him results in an inevitable slow and painful death. Those representing the criminal underworld could just about be interchangeable cardboard cut-outs. Unfortunately, the underworld still appealed to me, I ran hookers, drug cartels, dry-cleaners and printed funny money. According to some media reports, the owner of the dealership was connected to the criminal underworld. He has been debriefed by police and taken to a safe house amid fears Hall's underworld associates may target him. Early 19th-century London, with its Georgian underworld of body snatchers, spirit shops and tippling houses, is vividly rendered. The man they made this ghoulish request to is a key figure in the Limerick underworld. But he dismisses criticism that the film glorifies violence and highlights the futility of life in the underworld. It was in the eighties that underworld characters in the movies began to look more realistic. The gunfire was the latest of a series of attacks amid an underworld war for contracted volumes of drugs. The underworld boss made his name as a ruthless enforcer for the feared Thompson family. She is well known across Karnataka as a firebrand journalist, doing scoops on underworld dons and hard-hitting interviews with politicians. Spam is one of the areas that the underworld of the internet are successfully exploiting for commercial gain. The underworld is once again making extortion threats to Bollywood figures. Bricked in and built around, the vaults became a warren of nooks, crannies and tunnels forming the historic city's underworld. The movie begins with a grand wedding breakfast being given by Don Vito Corleone, the eponymous Godfather and underworld king-pin. The novel reads like a homage to Leonard, with its rhythmic repartee, underworld characters and action-packed plot. Yet the fear of this technical underworld has provoked a knee-jerk reaction. Show More Sentences London's organised-crime underworld, in all its diversity and brutality, is the setting for this edgy contemporary thriller. It reveals an alternative, rebel underworld in Istanbul, populated mainly by Kurds. Named for the god of the underworld, this planet deals in subtext and subversive action. Inside, the soaring caves and intricate carvings nod to a fantastical Alice and Wonderland underworld. The place was teeming with life in all its clamorous glory, and it seemed I had stumbled upon a picaresque underworld where everyone had escaped from a Dickens yarn. More than anything else, Junky reads like a field guide to the American underworld. Will he team up with an underworld don to finish off another? Rick flees the underworld, in this case the prison, and returns to the world as a hero. They told a story of how a fresh-faced, lively outgoing child had descended into East London's drug underworld, which they believe cost him his life. The hero joins the band of underworld dons and becomes a rowdy. Last year, the unit seized more than 200 illegal guns and more than 3,500 rounds of assorted ammunition, which are in demand in the criminal underworld. Fifty-five years after his death, Anton Webern still leads listeners through a musical underworld where even dodecaphonic and atonal rules simply don't apply. The ancient Maya believed that the underworld of caves was home to gods that controlled rainfall and harvest bounties. This month his latest foray into the underworld, RockNRolla has opened to less than rapturous reviews. I am a living breathing hormonal teenage girl though I would much rather prefer to be a living dead goddess of the underworld with no emotions at all. His guile and familiarity with the underworld gets him a job as a photographer for a scandal sheet, working under a good natured, alcoholic editor. Orpheus retrieves Eurydice from the underworld on the condition that he not look back at her shadow until both have emerged from the vale of Avernus. The baggage of his personal eccentricity weighs quite heavily on the film in which the villain is not some colourful underworld figure but the very father who gave you birth. The concept of the dead travelling through the underworld in a boat is regularly depicted in the Valley of the Kings and the tombs of the Pharaohs. And does Ashley know he's fraternising with the criminal underworld? Show More Sentences For the cash-strapped film industry, getting some amount of clean financing from the corporate sector is a whole lot better than dealing with dubious underworld dons. A father of four young children murdered in a drive-by shooting could have been the latest victim of the Yorkshire criminal underworld gun culture, it emerged yesterday. This refugee was a person who could not be trusted because of their feigned conditions, false identities, and suspected links to a fifth column or underworld. His years in the morgue parallel a descent into the shamanic underworld. Going down to the underworld alive was something Thracian shamans just did, as natural as singing along the forest paths. On foot, we trade bullets with underworld henchmen and rival gangs. For most heroes, the second cycle of the monomyth involves a physical journey into the underworld. The point might have been better made if this Elizabethan underworld wasn't depicted in a way that makes the average children's nursery look like a den of iniquity. That is not to be, as in this moth-eaten tale of an honest cop versus the criminal underworld, there is nothing we have not seen and been weary of in the past. They are unacceptable and very often a cover for the criminal underworld. Like a mythological heroine who makes a terrifying journey to the underworld and returns with a valuable prize, Turke feels she has been given a gift. His sentiments about modern life and the criminal underworld reveal a pragmatic, yet easy going man, gradually helping to make his own vulnerability a point of concern. In actuality, an encounter with a goddess of the underworld is another step in the second cycle of the monomyth. But blanco was perhaps too deeply ensnared in the drug underworld to break free. I really wanted to see the nooks and crannies of underworld gambling. Hip-hop has always drawn much of its creative energy from the underworld. Their gang, The Firm, established a Mafia-style grip on the city's criminal underworld in the 1960s, specialising in protection and extortion rackets. Aquariums, like adultery, draw us into a shadowy underworld of unspoken sensual pleasures, an engrossing, exotic environment harboring dangers of mythic proportion. It was Connolly who, starting in 1975, had enlisted Bulger as a source of underworld information. With the storyline of the film revolving round the nexus between drug mafia and underworld dons, the mood of the film is certainly reflected in the music, it has been claimed. Show More Sentences In Egyptian mythology, Osiris, the god of the underworld, is praised for introducing beer to humans. A woman who suffered a 48-hour kidnap ordeal may have been the unwitting victim of an underworld drug debt row sparked by a string of recent seizures. Gotham may mature into a thrilling mystery that explores corrupt cops and the seedy underworld. Hidden on the world's nether side, Australia was literally an underworld. Once, however, she realized that she could choose for herself whether or not to continue her life in the criminal underworld, she chose to get out. The newspaper understands he was believed to be involved in hits and suspected of supplying ammunition and possibly firearms to the criminal underworld. One of the most famous international heists involved the Sewer Rats, a team of seven underworld criminals led by Albert Spaggiari who targeted a bank vault in Nice, France. Pluto is god of the underworld whose wife Persephone sits frozen, entranced or asleep on her throne. After death, a person's ghost normally traveled to the sky world or the underworld, but some could stay on earth. In the great myths, the adventures are external, even when they involve such metaphorical spelunkings as the voyage into the underworld. In the Finnish epic Kalevala, a swan lives in the Tuoni river located in Tuonela, the underworld realm of the dead. There may have been uterine caves in the vicinity suggesting a vaginoid entrance to the underworld. Itzamna also had a night sun aspect, the Night Jaguar, representing the sun in its journey through the underworld. Most people who live under the scheme are supergrasses, criminals who turn on their underworld associates. The narcissus is considered sacred to both Hades and Persephone, and to grow along the banks of the river Styx in the underworld. The hadal zone is the name given to the deepest depths of the ocean, named after hades as the underworld god of Greek mythology. And as long as cannabusiness remains highly profitable to the criminal underworld, the battle will continue. Several caves offer opportunities for ordinary tourists to experience the fascinating underworld of stalactites and stalagmites. Effigies of Fawkes and the pope were present, the latter represented by Pluto, Roman god of the underworld. If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow. Show More Sentences A similar account is provided by Lucian describing the flowers in the underworld. The funeral was attended by celebrities including Diana Dors and underworld figures known to the Krays, such as James Kemmery. In Greek mythology the hellhound Cerberus belonged to Hades, the Greek god of the underworld. They have razor sharp teeth, super strength, and speed, and are commonly associated with graveyards and the underworld. Visual effects model light emission, transmission, and scattering, allowing realistic fire, smoke, and particles to provide the gritty feel of the Coruscant underworld. Homer in his Odyssey described the underworld as having Elysian meadows carpeted with flowers, thought to be narcissus, as described by Theophrastus. One of the many underworld synonyms for an active pederast is turk. For example, Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty, Ares was the god of war, Hades the ruler of the underworld, and Athena the goddess of wisdom and courage. Hades was often excluded because he dwelt in the underworld. The nine lords of the night each governed one of the underworld realms. One of the bas reliefs decorating the temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia depicts a demon performing such an abortion upon a woman who has been sent to the underworld. The term originated from Pluto, the classical god of the underworld. Our idea of the pretty is a limited notion that cannot possibly apply to earth's metamorphic underworld, a cataclysmic realm of chthonian violence. In the underworld beneath the lid on the back of the world turtle, where the god Batara Kala and the goddess Setesuyara lived, there was perpetual darkness. Reese Witherspoon plays a cop who finds herself protecting the wife of a Mob informant who, for reasons not worth mentioning, is wanted by both the cops and the underworld. Woolcock insists her film doesn't glamorise the city's violent underworld. According to a single reference in the Iliad, when the world was divided by lot in three, Zeus received the sky, Hades the underworld and Poseidon the sea. Examples from Classical Literature It means what it meant to Orpheus when he followed Eurydice to the underworld. In the underworld he was believed to be fabulously wealthy, as no doubt he was. The rle of general conductor of souls to the realms of the underworld, however, came to be given to Hermes, the psychopomp. This may have been the case with Danu, for in Celtic belief the gifts of civilisation came from the underworld or from the gods. It was to him preposterous, for she was one of that underworld against which he was ruthlessly at war. He would also conduct through his underworld any one who had the leisure and inclination. For a long time he wandered sadly all through the beautiful underworld, and one day he met a magician who asked him the cause of his tears. It was rather as if the earth had opened and swallowed him into a sort of underworld of dreams. But for the first time in his life, here in the underworld of San Francisco, in all equality he met such persons from above. It is atmospherically staged in Victorian London with cobbled streets, apothecary shops and steamy underworld. They seldom traverse the underworld at night, for then it is that the great banths prowl the dim corridors seeking their prey. Their fate is watched by Pluto, the God of the underworld, and by the oracle Pythia. Before he arose to the surface from that first plunge into the underworld he discovered that he was a good actor and demonstrated the plasticity of his nature. South American reed instrument, the bandoneon, provides the background beat of the dance that was first known in the underworld of secret nightclubs and salons in Argentina. Here, visitors can explore the area's vast system of caves and cenotes, limestone sinkholes that Mayans believed to be entrances to the underworld. The Russian-made guns are illegally converted to fire real bullets and smuggled from Lithuania where they are sold to armed criminals by underworld armourers. In Alcestis, Heracles compensates Admetus's generous hospitality by bringing back Alcestis from the underworld after defeating Thanatos, the personification of death. The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice tells of a tragic love affair in which a grief-stricken Orpheus ventures into the underworld to be reunited with his late wife. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of underworld? Words that rhyme with underworld What is the plural of underworld? What is the adjective for underworld? What is the noun for underworld? Translations for underworld Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words underworked underwork underwool underwood underwing underwhelming Underworld underwrite underwriter underwriters underwrites underwriting 10-letter Words Starting With u un und unde under underw underwo underwor underworl