netherworld

Example Sentences

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First, the Coens submerge us headfirst into the cold netherworld of a Minnesota winter, where criminals hope that a dusting of fresh, frosty powder will cover their tracks.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

In that legal netherworld, women weren’t just plaintiffs.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026

By a certain point we seem to have wandered, alongside Sol, into a strange netherworld between life and death.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024

How delightfully morbid to give the netherworld a Spielbergian gloss.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

I open my eyes and find that I'm not, in fact, lying on a fair netherworld plain.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir