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

And now that Lyra had the taste for exploring it, she abandoned her usual haunt, the irregular alps of the College roofs, and plunged with Roger into this netherworld.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman