English example sentences with "beneath"

Learn how to use beneath in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

The money was hidden beneath the floorboards.

The ice will crack beneath our weight.

It is beneath my dignity to ask a favor.

It is beneath him to say such a thing.

That is beneath ordinary decency.

It is beneath him to do something like that.

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.

Such conduct is beneath your dignity.

Such behavior is beneath his dignity.

The earth lay beneath a blanket of snow.

The business prospered beneath his guiding hand.

His behavior is beneath criticism.

He took it from beneath his coat.

He is beneath her in rank.

They live on the floor beneath.

Her foolish idea is beneath notice.

Her behavior is beneath contempt.

The tree bent down beneath their weight of fruit.

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

There are as many vipers hiding in the grass as there is evil lying beneath a beautiful countenance.

The land is beneath me.

He is going beneath the shadows.

A Noldo is beneath the tree.

Is a Noldo beneath the tree?

From the tower you can look out across the plain spread beneath your eyes.

Tom is sitting beneath the tree.

It is always dark beneath the oil lamp.

The flowers of a tree will fall beneath that very tree.

It was a beautiful evening; the last rays of the setting sun shone bright through the long stems of the trees upon the green underwood beneath, and the turtle-doves sang from the tall birches.

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.

They snuggled tightly beneath the blankets.

Nothing is more wretched than a man who traverses everything in a round, and pries into the things beneath the earth, as the poet says, and seeks by conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbours, without perceiving that it is sufficient to attend to the demon within him, and to reverence it sincerely.

A cat was tearing at the door, and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearth-stone.

The eagle perched atop the cliff, scanning the valley spread out beneath it.

The technician entered the aircraft from beneath.

The godmother wished the ship at the christening, among other things: "May there always be enough water beneath your keel!"

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.

The girl tried to speak, but before she could sob out her thanks the old man had touched her softly on the head three times with his silver staff. In an instant Elsa knew that she was turning into a bird: wings sprang from beneath her arms; her feet were the feet of eagles, with long claws; her nose curved itself into a sharp beak, and feathers covered her body. Then she soared high in the air, and floated up towards the clouds, as if she had really been hatched an eagle.

Our throats are becoming dry, standing beneath the sun like this, without even a tree for shade.

Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child beneath the sun.

You think Tom's got big muscles? I'm packing literal cannons beneath these sleeves!

An unknown number of victims may be trapped beneath the rubble.

There's really nothing much at all that you see as being beneath you.

There are parts of land today that used to be far beneath the ocean waters.

A causeway connecting a United States island to the mainland disappears beneath the sea several times a year, thereby cutting off the town from the mainland.

Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour. / Beneath such dreamy weather. / To beg a tale of breath too weak / To stir the tiniest feather! / Yet what can one poor voice avail / Against three tongues together?

Thus grew the tale of Wonderland: / Thus slowly, one by one, / Its quaint events were hammered out— / And now the tale is done, / And home we steer, a merry crew, / Beneath the setting sun.

It's called commando when you don't wear underwear beneath your pants.

She wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat, extending down her back, were two braids of very thick, decidedly red hair.

The garden was encircled by huge old willows and tall firs, beneath which flourished flowers that loved the shade.

I kiss the ground beneath your feet.

I was born in the town of Aubagne, beneath the goat-crowned Garlaban, in the days of the last goatherds.

I was near you, when you sat beneath those beech-trees, and piped and sang the praises of your sweetheart Amaryllis: I was close to the damsel, but you could not discern me. I gave her to you, and some brave boys, who are now excellent husbandmen and herdsmen, are the pledges of your love.

When he beheld the whole place deserted and found Chloe's pipe on the ground, he burst into loud and bitter lamentations and ran to the beech tree, beneath which they usually sat, and then to the shore, to try if he could see her.

We have entreated Pan (whose statue stands beneath yonder pine, and whom you have never honoured even with a bunch of flowers) to succour Chloe, for he is more used to warfare than we are, and has often quitted his groves to join in the fray.

Scientists think there is water beneath the moon's icy crust.

Beneath the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, lies a liquid ocean that may have more water than Earth contains.

Images of Europa's surface show ice that has broken up into ice flows, suggesting that water beneath the surface is moving and cracking the ice.

It was a foggy, cloudy morning, and a dun-coloured veil hung over the house-tops, looking like the reflection of the mud-coloured streets beneath.

A vulgar flaring paper adorned the walls, but it was blotched in places with mildew; and here and there great strips had become detached and hung down, exposing the yellow plaster beneath.

I hid the book beneath the carpet.

The girl is reading beneath the tree.

We had left the fertile country behind and beneath us. We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands.

The greater part of the letter was charred to pieces, but one little slip, the end of a page, hung together, and the writing could still be read, though it was grey on a black ground. It seemed to us to be a postscript at the end of the letter, and it said: ‘Please, please, as you are a gentleman, burn this letter, and be at the gate by ten o’clock.’ Beneath it were signed the initials L. L.

The sun was already sinking when I reached the summit of the hill, and the long slopes beneath me were all golden-green on one side and grey shadow on the other.

One great grey bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven. He and I seemed to be the only living things between the huge arch of the sky and the desert beneath it.

Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott clad in a long gray dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers.

The deepest part of the ocean is called the Challenger Deep and is located beneath the western Pacific Ocean in the southern end of the Mariana Trench.

"O son of Tydeus, bravest of the race, / why could not I have perished, too, that day / beneath thine arm, and breathed this soul away / far on the plains of Troy, where Hector brave / lay, pierced by fierce AEacide, where lay / giant Sarpedon, and swift Simois' wave / rolls heroes, helms and shields, whelmed in one watery grave?"

Beneath a precipice, that fronts the wave, / with limpid springs inside, and many a seat / of living marble, lies a sheltered cave, / home of the Sea-Nymphs. In this haven sweet / cable nor biting anchor moors the fleet.

Then, girt with guards, within the temple's gate / beneath the centre of the dome she sate.

Meanwhile from neighbouring Tenedos once more, / beneath the tranquil moonbeam's friendly care, / with ordered ships, along the deep sea-floor, / back came the Argive host, and sought the well-known shore. / Forth from the royal galley sprang the flame, / when Sinon, screened by partial Fate, withdrew / the bolts and barriers of the pinewood frame, / and from its inmost caverns, bared to view, / the fatal horse disgorged the Danaan crew.

The biggest problem in his life? “The inflation rate,” he said in a recent interview beneath the grove of coconut trees that fringe the lily pond where his cows drink and bathe.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Again I gripped him by the sleeve, and felt the thin, sinewy arm beneath it. “Well, you're not a spirit, anyhow,” said I.

Grasslands and the soils beneath them act as giant carbon sinks, the report notes. But not if they are overgrazed.

The Forest of Burzee is mighty and grand and awesome to those who steal beneath its shade.

She was closely related to the mighty Queen Zurline, and her home was beneath the shade of a widespreading oak.

She kept hurtful weeds from growing beneath her trees and sapping the earth-food required by her charges.

No forest flower was trampled beneath his feet, lest the friendly Ryls should be grieved.

She followed him through the forest paths, as did many of her sister nymphs, explaining as they walked all the mysteries of the gigantic wood and the habits and nature of the living things which dwelt beneath its shade.

He reined up his horse on the top of a gentle eminence, from which he observed the busy and gay scene beneath him.

Several heavy stones were hurled from the mouldering battlements into the roaring sea beneath.

The old woman was on her accustomed seat beneath the weeping birch, basking, with the listless enjoyment of age and infirmity, in the beams of the autumn sun.

The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.

The cows are resting beneath the tree.

Tom is resting beneath the tree.

Tom was resting beneath the tree.

The Buddha meditated beneath a Bodhi tree.

Like their brothers of Ireland, the fishermen of Wales assert that at low tide they can see the ruins of ancient edifices far down beneath the clear waters of the bay.

The internal oblique muscle is located beneath the external oblique muscle in the abdominal region of the body.

I leapt from the ground and flew into the sky - soon, the clouds were beneath me, a white cotton carpet glittering under the setting sun.

"I want to see a dinosaur!" "Which one: the one that will brutally maul you or the one that will accidentally crush you beneath its feet?" "N-not all dinosaurs are like that!"

As the waves crashed against the cliff face beneath us, she began to talk.

Yanni crouched beneath the window.

He constructed his cabin of small logs about six inches in diameter, stopping the chinks with clay which he found at the depth of a few feet beneath the surface soil.

On the wall hung a picture of Mary, forefinger threateningly raised, looking as though she were reading the observer the riot act. "I'm in charge here!" was the inscription added beneath.

On the wall hung a picture of Mary, forefinger threateningly raised, looking as though she were in the middle of reading the viewer the riot act. Beneath read the caption: "I'm in charge here!"

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