beneath
Directly under; in or to a lower position than.
How often you will meet it
Rank 708 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 26,594 times across 155,168 chapters — 0.013% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
preposition
- Directly under; in or to a lower position than.
beneath in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The detective lifted the candle and held it beneath the canopy.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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In the ungrazed pastures swaths of dead stuff caught their feet, and the ground beneath glistened with sweat.
Actions and reactions · Rudyard Kipling · Chapter 1
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Then, being apparently dead, kerosene was poured upon him, cottonseed hulls placed beneath him and set on fire.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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Who knows the town of Bethlehem, once gleamed beneath the star, Whose wondrous light the shepherds saw watching their flocks afar?
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1