How to Use otherworld in a Sentence

otherworld

noun

• On Samhain, the Celts believed the dead were able to return to the world of the living, and also that those who had died that year were now able to cross over to the otherworld.
  — Jessica Coulon, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2022
• On Samhain, during which bonfires were lit, it was believed that the spirits of the dead were granted access to the otherworld.
  — Noah Sheidlower and Radhika Marya, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
• The barren otherworld of outer space could even reveal new ways to protect ourselves against the process of growing old.
  — Shi En Kim, Science, 2 Dec. 2020
• This was considered a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the otherworld was thin, and so spirits visited.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2021
• Guests at the plush Post Ranch Inn were able to helicopter in and out, but for most in that low-key, bohemian otherworld, all visitors—and all revenue—disappeared.
  — Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2020
• March 22, the day of our cautious-joyful-otherworld return to America, seemed surreal.
  — James McClintock | Uab Professor, al, 17 Apr. 2020
• The poems shift between New England and Ireland; rivers and fences appear and reappear, speaking to what divides us — living and dead, world and otherworld, history and present — and what can also be slipped between and bridged.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• When a missing fact emerges without digital assistance, each person announces it to the other while looking off into a remote distance, the otherworld of what was known and lost.
  — Don Delillo, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• Both are part of an evolving ‘unbearable lightness’ of experience in the superhero otherworld.
  — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
• The eerie otherworld of dreams, spirits, strange creatures, and imagined memories seeps into reality, at once making the familiar strange and bringing difficult truths into the light.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• Otherworld presents two chapters in their popular horror series.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2015
• Parting earth and sky with remarkable symmetry, Fuji is venerated as a stairway to heaven, a holy ground for pilgrimage, a site for receiving revelations, a dwelling place for deities and ancestors, and a portal to an ascetic otherworld.
  — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
• The peninsula, farther east than Japan, represents a distant otherworld of majestic, magnetic wilderness.
  — Eva Sohlman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024