How to Use netherworld in a Sentence

netherworld

noun
  • Winn is stuck in a netherworld in baseball’s makeshift season.
    — Dallas News, 31 July 2020
  • As the show evolves the plot to include new threats, what else could be lurking around in the netherworld?
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Candy took pity upon us and coached us in the ways of Max’s netherworld.
    — Bob Colacello, Vanities, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Rye and begs help finding her child, missing in a netherworld of addicts.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Its inky black squiggles reappear on the white chairs, linking the two in a netherworld.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
  • So does Foxx’s voice, giving vivid form and feeling to an avatar of the netherworld.
    — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Hathi Ram faces grave mortal dangers in a new pursuit that takes him back to the netherworld.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
  • There aren’t many vessels that can descend nearly a mile into the deadly netherworld of the deep sea.
    — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
  • The aisles of polyester and mom jeans were akin to a punishment, a netherworld to which you were banished for not keeping it tight.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2022
  • For those stuck in this employment netherworld, life is a cycle of constant job searches.
    — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2017
  • The rules of this netherworld announce themselves, early on, via a nondescript wall sign.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
  • To many students, the latest virus surge feels like a giant step back to the netherworld, where college just was not college.
    — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • But beneath the ground is far more—a vast and extraordinary netherworld of treasures.
    — Roger Anis, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2021
  • The intensive-care unit in Puerto Asís was like a netherworld between life and death.
    — Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Brown dwarfs exist in a kind of netherworld category between planets and stars.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The city’s Noyo Harbor has been rough around the edges for decades, but now there’s new energy in this damp netherworld.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The current team is in a netherworld, still with Donald to lead the way on defense but overall with far less of an upside.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The strings of the second piano are strummed and plucked so as to produce weird waves of resonant sound suggestive of the netherworld.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Vogel hasn’t helped his case much with some strange rotations and staying in a netherworld between playing big and small lineups.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Alienated from his friends, David has drifted in and out of a netherworld where only the next fix is important.
    — Edward Kiersh, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
  • But in this case, the standings seemed to take the reader into some mathematical netherworld.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • But as any cinephile will tell you, there’s no bridging the gap between the real world and the cinematic netherworld once the credits roll.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2024
  • But for Gisleson, the readings function mostly as conduits to the netherworld of her memories.
    — Emily Fox Gordon, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • And how can Turkey possibly face the prospect of sliding toward the financial netherworld?
    — Tom Keatinge, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2014
  • Aziza, a spirit and god cast into Osunde’s pages who likes to sweep people up and place them in a netherworld, is just the kind of being to lie in wait.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2022
  • No philosopher, no religion, no Renaissance painter had come close to predicting this drab netherworld.
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
  • The 17 dancers do everything, including shaking their booties, to make the urban netherworld look inviting.
    — Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The same netherworld where Julien enjoyed torturing Cortland during his statue days.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Below that is the Futures tour, tennis’s vast netherworld of more than 2,000 true prospects and hopeless dreamers.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 8 July 2024
  • Girand’s journey into this netherworld was sparked by neighborhood chaos and an attempt to understand what was happening.
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 12 Jan. 2026

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