How to Use netherworld in a Sentence

netherworld

noun
  • As the show evolves the plot to include new threats, what else could be lurking around in the netherworld?
    Ashley Hoffman, Time, 27 Oct. 2017
  • So does Foxx’s voice, giving vivid form and feeling to an avatar of the netherworld.
    Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Candy took pity upon us and coached us in the ways of Max’s netherworld.
    Bob Colacello, Vanities, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Its inky black squiggles reappear on the white chairs, linking the two in a netherworld.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
  • Horny Guys – Nothing says netherworld like a horned beast.
    OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Hathi Ram faces grave mortal dangers in a new pursuit that takes him back to the netherworld.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Yet Posey lived in a netherworld between free and unfree.
    Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Winn is stuck in a netherworld in baseball’s makeshift season.
    Dallas News, 31 July 2020
  • The city’s Noyo Harbor has been rough around the edges for decades, but now there’s new energy in this damp netherworld.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The aisles of polyester and mom jeans were akin to a punishment, a netherworld to which you were banished for not keeping it tight.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Rye and begs help finding her child, missing in a netherworld of addicts.
    Tom Nolan, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, that question faded to the netherworld of historical what-ifs.
    Michael Peck, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The intensive-care unit in Puerto Asís was like a netherworld between life and death.
    Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The current team is in a netherworld, still with Donald to lead the way on defense but overall with far less of an upside.
    Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • To many students, the latest virus surge feels like a giant step back to the netherworld, where college just was not college.
    New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • There aren’t many vessels that can descend nearly a mile into the deadly netherworld of the deep sea.
    Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
  • The strings of the second piano are strummed and plucked so as to produce weird waves of resonant sound suggestive of the netherworld.
    John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Aziza, a spirit and god cast into Osunde’s pages who likes to sweep people up and place them in a netherworld, is just the kind of being to lie in wait.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2022
  • In this netherworld of zero boundaries, Fincke tells clients to drape a scarf over their computer when they’re done with work: Think of it as a subtle door-slam on the day.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Alienated from his friends, David has drifted in and out of a netherworld where only the next fix is important.
    Edward Kiersh, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
  • For those stuck in this employment netherworld, life is a cycle of constant job searches.
    Liz Alderman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2017
  • But beneath the ground is far more—a vast and extraordinary netherworld of treasures.
    Roger Anis, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2021
  • But for Gisleson, the readings function mostly as conduits to the netherworld of her memories.
    Emily Fox Gordon, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • But in this case, the standings seemed to take the reader into some mathematical netherworld.
    David Waldstein, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • Vogel hasn’t helped his case much with some strange rotations and staying in a netherworld between playing big and small lineups.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The 17 dancers do everything, including shaking their booties, to make the urban netherworld look inviting.
    Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Love may turn out to be just as good, but at least for now, Cheeseheads are thrust into the same netherworld of quarterback uncertainty that much of the league endures every year.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Virginia City (population 855), carved into the steep slopes and raked by winds, is part-ghost town and part-tourist concoction plopped atop a netherworld of old mining tunnels.
    Christopher Reynolds, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
  • Through all of it, though, Neeson maintains a stoic presence that prevents the movie from lifting off into a digital netherworld.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Like Excalibur resting at the bottom of a lake, the Guarantee Clause waits to be pulled from the constitutional netherworld and wielded on behalf of the people.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 July 2019

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