Sentence examples for to underlie from inspiring English sources
verb
To lie in a position directly beneath.
- A stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.
Competition for turf appears to underlie last week's clash.
Two motives seem to underlie this extraordinary expropriation.
Allott has been pushing, not unsuccessfully, for the concept of recovery to underlie the programme.
Indeed, a healthy openness to conspiracy may be said to underlie much honest intellectual inquiry.
This recognition seemed to underlie yesterday's holiday feast at the restaurant called Abdullah.
The idea of discarding old ideas and methods seemed to underlie everything said by national political candidates.
"Life," it replies, "is a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings.
That conviction, which no amount of archaeological speculation or missing evidence can change, continues to underlie the Orthodox Jewish world.
It could be said to underlie Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle," which raises the norm onto the epic plane.
This epitomises the value-free philosophy that seems to underlie much of the UK's present foreign policy.
"Life: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings.
