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

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

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

The very same one that Chuck Parson had thrown me onto freshman year, sending me into the terrifying netherworld of Winter Park’s dishwashing corps.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green