nethermost

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile the citizens stagger about “in this dreadful abyss of brokenness, this dead valley of hopelessness, this nethermost pit of faithlessness.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2020

“We have trod the face of the Moon, touched the nethermost pit of the sea, and can link minds instantaneously across vast distances,” he writes.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2011

The scene could have been played in Dante's nethermost pit.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Within five years," patriotic Mayor Herriot has made Napoleon Emperor of the three Americas, great lord of all that lies between 'Alaska and the nethermost tip of Chile.

From Time Magazine Archive

His girl love, the girl who was like a pure star shining in God's heaven compared with a flame from—yes, from the nethermost pit.

From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Garvice, Charles