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Subterranean in sentence

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Subterranean aquifers, which amount to the world’s reserve water tank, are also running dry.
Subterranean aquifers are repositories of water located deep underground, in permeable rock, soil, or sand.
So subterranean aquifers are increasingly being exploited for agriculture, power generation, and daily use in fast-growing cities (urban Asia is growing at a rate of 120,000 people per day).
Today, about 30% of the world’s liquid freshwater comes from subterranean aquifers.
Subterranean aquifers should be the reservoir of last resort.
Beheadings online, fatwas online: the subterranean world of Islam’s radical fringe can be found on countless Internet sites.
Nevertheless, the public display of subterranean politics is just as marked in Germany as it is in other countries.
The success of the Pirate Party (a new party concerned with Internet Freedom and what it calls “liquid democracy”) in recent regional elections is yet another example of subterranean politics at work.
A subterranean violence has been mounting in this volatile area since the break-up of Yugoslavia.
The best hope for most North Koreans is the subterranean market economy that fills the gaps in the state’s planned economy and public distribution system.
Members of the “Ant Tribe” – recent university graduates who can’t find jobs matching their academic credentials and are reduced to living in subterranean hovels – are understandably concerned about social mobility.
Now the subterranean life rumbled around them with a continual passing of captains, the come and go of the trains drawn by trotting horses.
The reddish light of three open lamps cut out great moving shadows and gave to this subterranean hall the air of a villainous cavern, some bandits' forge near a torrent.
Between Calais and Valenciennes the sinking of mine shafts was surrounded by immense difficulties on account of the masses of subterranean water in great sheets at the level of the lowest valleys.
It had been necessary in sinking the Voreux to establish two tubbings: that of the upper level, in the shifting sands and white clays bordering the chalky stratum, and fissured in every part, swollen with water like a sponge; then that of the lower level, immediately above the coal stratum, in a yellow sand as fine as flour, flowing with liquid fluidity; it was here that the Torrent was to be found, that subterranean sea so dreaded in the coal pits of the Nord, a sea with its storms and its shipwrecks, an unknown and unfathomable sea, rolling its dark floods more than three hundred metres beneath the daylight.
Behind, enormous cavities had been hollowed out, and the yellow sand, as fine as flour, was flowing in considerable masses; while the waters of the Torrent, that subterranean sea with its unknown tempests and shipwrecks, were discharging in a flow like a weir.
From this moment the earth continued to tremble, the shocks succeeded one another, subterranean downfalls, the rumbling of a volcano in eruption.
He seemed to know his road in this subterranean town which he had inhabited for eleven years, and his eyes saw clearly in the depths of the eternal night in which he had lived.
The savor of preparation which had been noticed by Captain Lawton began to increase within the walls of the cottage; certain sweet-smelling odors, that arose from the subterranean territories of Caesar, gave to the trooper the most pleasing assurances that his olfactory nerves, which on such occasions were as acute as his eyes on others, had faithfully performed their duty; and for the benefit of enjoying the passing sweets as they arose, the dragoon so placed himself at a window of the building, that not a vapor charged with the spices of the East could exhale on its passage to the clouds, without first giving its incense to his nose.
Tom found a subterranean lake, shortly, which stretched its dim length away until its shape was lost in the shadows.
Anyone might take the place for a subterranean gallery indistinctly lit-up by three funeral lamps.
It seemed impossible that she should ever know the smallest part of the vast warren, or distinguish one pale face from another in the gloom, as the women led her through long lines of lonely chambers where the wind sighed alone under the glittering ceilings, to hanging gardens two hundred feet above the level of the ground, but still jealously guarded by high walls, and down again, by interminable stairways, from the glare and the blue of the flat roofs to silent subterranean chambers hewn against the heat of the summer sixty feet into the heart of the living rock.
Tarvin listened with patience as infinite as his weariness ancient history had no charm for the man who was making his own town while Estes enlarged upon the past, and told stories of voluntary immolation on the pyre in subterranean palaces by thousands of Rajput women who, when the city fell before a Mohammedan, and their kin had died in the last charge of defence, cheated the conquerors of all but the empty glory of conquest.
What then would be those convulsed regions upon which we were advancing, regions subject to the dire phenomena of eruptions, the offspring of volcanic explosions and subterranean convulsions?
If there is a way to penetrate into the very bowels of the island, if that ill-advised Saknussemm has told a true tale, we shall lose our way amidst the deep subterranean passages of this volcano.
My uncle reckoned upon a fresh supply from subterranean sources, but hitherto we had met with none.
I shuddered at the thought of being lost in the mazes of this vast subterranean labyrinth.
A large mass had been rent asunder by a subterranean disturbance.
"There can be no doubt; a subterranean river is flowing around us."
The tunnel was filling with steam, whilst a stream was forming, which by degrees wandered away into subterranean windings, and soon we had the satisfaction of swallowing our first draught.
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