never-never land

Example Sentences

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“The Punch Bowl,” made in late 1944, when Germany was on its knees, portrayed a “good old German never-never land of unspoiled cobblestone streets.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

"It laid bare how incompatible it was to have intelligence services operating in a secret constitutional never-never land and allowed them to become publicly accountable."

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2023

“But until the bulldozers arrive and the leases are terminated and farmers start to go away, it’s not done. It will be in that never-never land of planning.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2017

This article was fine, albeit coming from never-never land until the last sentence: "Wall Street needs — and wants — seatbelts and speed limits."

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2017

Immediately, the breeze took them straight out, as though Peter Pan had donned them to fly across our yard toward never-never land across the Bay.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson