- a variation of nether world.
netherworld
Example Sentences
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First, the Coens submerge us headfirst into the cold netherworld of a Minnesota winter, where criminals hope that a dusting of fresh, frosty powder will cover their tracks.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
In that legal netherworld, women weren’t just plaintiffs.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
They deployed atmospheric samples to conjure a foreboding netherworld, where Gibbons’s vocals could sound anxious, jazzy, witchy or utterly bereft.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
Instead, it seemed content to inhabit a netherworld in between.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
I imagined Nancy descending a long iron staircase into the netherworld, and a man who waited for her at the bottom.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
