Examples of “underbelly” in a Sentence

noun The underside of an animal's body.

• We identified the species of the snake by its blue-grey underbelly.
• A jolt told me that the Nautilus had bumped the underbelly of the Ice Bank, still quite thick to judge from the hollowness of the accompanying noise. — Jules Verne (1993)
• The shark's underbelly is much paler than its back.

noun The hidden, often unpleasant or corrupt side of something.

• The novel exposes the criminal underbelly of the city.