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

"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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

One of earth's nethermost terrors had perished for ever; and if there be a hell, it had received at last the demon soul of an unhallowed thing.

From The Shunned House by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)