How do you use the word "underneath" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "underneath" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "underneath": I found the key underneath the mat. The next morning I woke to see the fruit trees in bloom underneath my window.

Underneath Meaning

/ˌʌndəˈniːθ/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

advBelow; in a place beneath.

advOn the underside or lower face.

Sentence Examples

I found the key underneath the mat.

The next morning I woke to see the fruit trees in bloom underneath my window.

Underneath we wrote the names of the students in our class.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The hidden basement was constructed ____ the house, accessible only through a trapdoor.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I found a small note that had been tucked ____ the edge of the keyboard earlier this morning today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English undernethe, undernethen, from Old English underneoþan (“underneath”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *underniþer. Equivalent to under- + neath.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"connected with it underneath, you see a very fine hair-spring." — 1825, Isaac Taylor, Scenes of British Wealth: In Produce, Manufactures, and Commerce, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry At-home Travellers:

"No insects exhibit, like them, what may be termed four net-work eyes. It is very easy to perceive them in looking at the animal from above, and then examining it underneath" — 1832, Georges Cuvier, translated by Edward Griffith, edited by Georges Cuvier, Edward Pidgeon, and Edward Griffith, The Animal Kingdom: Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization, volume 14, published 2012, →ISBN:

"The mess in the kitchen was one thing. The way the place smelled was another—some sort of chemistry-lab stink on top, some other smell underneath it. He was afraid the underneath smell might be blood." — 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:

"Nawnim yelped, heaved away, struck his head on the underneath of the bed, and rolled into view bawling." — 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 64:

"It was a monolith of a golden color, opening at its base on to a cavern: its underneath was hollowed out by water." — 2002, Mary Ann Caws, Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology, page 229:

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