netherworld

Example Sentences

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Rather, he’s using a shoestring budget to concoct left-of-center sights that feel like a peek into a specific Los Angeles netherworld.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

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

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026

They deployed atmospheric samples to conjure a foreboding netherworld, where Gibbons’s vocals could sound anxious, jazzy, witchy or utterly bereft.

From New York Times • May 16, 2024

Instead, it seemed content to inhabit a netherworld in between.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2022

And now that Lyra had the taste for exploring it, she abandoned her usual haunt, the irregular alps of the College roofs, and plunged with Roger into this netherworld.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman