How to Use never-never land in a Sentence

never-never land

noun
  • Its occasional bombshell scoops reside in a never-never land between rumor and accepted fact.
    Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 2018-05-16
  • For a disease that has languished in a kind of political never-never land for at least one human generation, leaving millions profoundly disabled, that is significant progress.
    Hillary Johnson, Discover Magazine, 2013-07-20

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