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

The intensive-care unit in Puerto Asís was like a netherworld between life and death.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2022

Drifting on the tide, a gill-netter moved through it as though it composed its own netherworld medium halfway between air and water.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson