underwater
Speech parts
1. underwater - Noun
2. underwater - Adjective
3. underwater - Verb
4. underwater - Adverb
5. underwater - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
growing or remaining under water
beneath the surface of the water
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Examples
I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.
As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.
When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
And then, when he's been underwater so long I feel certain he's drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. "Don't do that,” I say. "What? Come up or stay under?” he says. "Either. Neither. Whatever.