How to Use otherworld in a Sentence

otherworld

noun
  • The barren otherworld of outer space could even reveal new ways to protect ourselves against the process of growing old.
    — Shi En Kim, Science, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Like so many mirrors in horror fiction, this one proves to be a portal into a nightmarish otherworld.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • On Samhain, during which bonfires were lit, it was believed that the spirits of the dead were granted access to the otherworld.
    — Noah Sheidlower and Radhika Marya, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Otherworld presents two chapters in their popular horror series.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2015
  • This was considered a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the otherworld was thin, and so spirits visited.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2021
  • On Samhain, the Celts believed the dead were able to return to the world of the living, and also that those who had died that year were now able to cross over to the otherworld.
    — Jessica Coulon, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Both are part of an evolving ‘unbearable lightness’ of experience in the superhero otherworld.
    — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
  • The otherworlds that Véra claimed were central to his metaphysics don’t necessarily exist in a temporal hereafter, but rather in a spatial here and now.
    — Ryan Ruby, Harper's Magazine, 10 Oct. 2022
  • March 22, the day of our cautious-joyful-otherworld return to America, seemed surreal.
    — James McClintock | Uab Professor, al, 17 Apr. 2020
  • When a missing fact emerges without digital assistance, each person announces it to the other while looking off into a remote distance, the otherworld of what was known and lost.
    — Don Delillo, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • As a pure visual experience, the horror film is a genuine triumph, with production design that pulls you fully into the town’s horrific otherworld.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Guests at the plush Post Ranch Inn were able to helicopter in and out, but for most in that low-key, bohemian otherworld, all visitors—and all revenue—disappeared.
    — Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2020
  • In Mother of God, the reader is rooted in the material world, a world of objects, but there’s also a supernatural otherworld.
    — Hazlitt, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The peninsula, farther east than Japan, represents a distant otherworld of majestic, magnetic wilderness.
    — Eva Sohlman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The poems shift between New England and Ireland; rivers and fences appear and reappear, speaking to what divides us — living and dead, world and otherworld, history and present — and what can also be slipped between and bridged.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Parting earth and sky with remarkable symmetry, Fuji is venerated as a stairway to heaven, a holy ground for pilgrimage, a site for receiving revelations, a dwelling place for deities and ancestors, and a portal to an ascetic otherworld.
    — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
  • Parting earth and sky with remarkable symmetry, Fuji is venerated as a stairway to heaven, a holy ground for pilgrimage, a site for receiving revelations, a dwelling place for deities and ancestors, and a portal to an ascetic otherworld.
    — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The map, as a window into an exotic otherworld and a symbol of Habsburg might, had become an independent reality, even though Tenochtitlan itself had been reduced to rubble — or rather precisely because of it.
    — Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026

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