from below

idiom

: from a lower place

I felt a draft from below.

Examples of from below in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The incident left the animal completely entrapped in the shattered floor — a photo snapped from below shows the white horse's legs dangling from the ceiling below the barn. —

Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 5 June 2024 Insects’ minute sensory organs and their rapid aerial accelerations prevent a moth or a wasp from distinguishing immediately above from below. —

Gary Stix, Scientific American, 14 May 2024 The church would do so from above, reserving for herself ultimate authority over the destiny of man, and the family from below, maintaining primary responsibility for educating the next generation. —

R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018 While acorns are being gobbled up from above by hungry squirrels, they are also being attacked from below, and within, by fungi, bacteria and other pathogens. —

Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for from below

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