netherworld

Example Sentences

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Rather, he’s using a shoestring budget to concoct left-of-center sights that feel like a peek into a specific Los Angeles netherworld.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

In that legal netherworld, women weren’t just plaintiffs.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026

By a certain point we seem to have wandered, alongside Sol, into a strange netherworld between life and death.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024

How delightfully morbid to give the netherworld a Spielbergian gloss.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

With one stride he covers the earth, with the second the heavens, and with the third he boots Bali into the netherworld.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel