nether

Example Sentences

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Linda is a schoolteacher and artist who lives in the nether reaches of Brooklyn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

It turns out that as a kind of bacteria turns from existing peacefully in our mouths to causing colon cancer in our nether regions, it produces dimethyl sulfide.

From Salon • May 31, 2025

This time, though, he knows that camera is on, and is behaving in ways many will find even more distasteful: eating the raw nether parts of camels, cows and sheep, among other things.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2022

Like all apocalypse Final Girls, she is somewhere she ought not be, in a nether region between humanity and whatever comes next.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2022

Medical science does not seal the earth, whose nether creatures seep out, hair by hair, disguised like the smoke that dispels them.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston