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How to use nether in a sentence

21 example sentences · adjective, adverb, verb

Nether means lower; under. Example: “The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.”

Examples of nether by meaning

adjectiveLower; under.

  • The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.

adjectiveLying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.

  • the nether regions

More sentences with nether

  • If we look to the nether reaches of the list, we find some anomalies.From the entry reaches
  • But her main concern is the hard seating that numbs the nether regions.2020 April 22, “Letters: Open Access: Not easy for laptops”, in Rail, page 31. From the entry numb
  • At the movies, the nethers have become unnestled, and not just in art films.2009 February 27, Peter Howell, “Doctor Manhattan part of the full-frontal revolution”, in Toronto Star. From the entry nethers
  • Varieties in nether garments introduced during this decade included 'Venetians' and trunk-hose with canion.1950, Jack Eric Morpurgo, Life Under the Tudors. From the entry canion
  • The rash of celebrities flashing their nether regions worries Peter Post, director of the Emily Post Institute of etiquette and manners.2006 November 29, Sheila Marikar, “Britney Keeps Flashing, Cameras Keep Clicking”, in ABC News. From the entry nether region
  • And when they eat, they move the overjaw and nought the nether jaw, and they have no tongue.1926, Arthur Percival Newton, Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages, page 161. From the entry overjaw
  • Biting her nether lip, hooking the placket of her skirt.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry placket
  • The other, dwarfed and prehensile, might in its uncanny silhouette have been an imp of darkness from the nether regions.1921, William MacLeod Raine, Gunsight Pass, ch. 1. From the entry nether region
  • The reception was now in full swing, and this was his third trip, each one brought on by a powerful urge from his nether regions.2021 July 21, John Van Rys, “Nether Lands”, in Moonshine Promises, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 1 (of chapter). From the entry potty dance
  • (female member of the spaceship crew speaking) "We're going on a year now, I ain't had nothing 'twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries."2005, Serenity, 00:31:28. From the entry nethers
  • "Many were shirtless, except the nether shirt, shoeless, hatless, and pantless — in fact, were quite 'less' in every way," Charles Hopkins noted.2005, Bradley M. Gottfried, Kearny's own. From the entry nether-shirt
  • I'm not asking necessarily for an unban on myself, just a peek into your common sense and an unban on saravo connecting from nether.2000 December 1, DOSIUS, “[RANT] #rgvac”, in rec.games.video.arcade.collecting (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025. From the entry unban
  • A consequence of this universalism is the appearance in the menippea of what Bakhtin calls the three-planed construction of earth, Olympus, and the nether world.1992, Thomas Jemielity, Satire and the Hebrew Prophets, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry menippea
  • Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur.2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 90. From the entry tur
  • On the smooth white flesh of the most beautiful of women they saw the black curls of her nether hair, coiling and glistening, covering and revealing.2000, Shifra Horn, Dalya Bilu, Four Mothers: A Novel. From the entry netherhair
  • His nether half was clad in lightweight Jaeger combinations which stretched to the ankle and through the fly-slit of which depended the royal member with its innocent pink tip.1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 445. From the entry jaeger
  • This is probably only a reflection in the overworld and the nether world of the fourfold structure of the cosmos, since four is everywhere the Indian's sacred number.1916, Hartley Burr Alexander, North American Mythology, Marshall Jones, page 23. From the entry overworld
  • Especially if you have already prepared him with a thorough hand-spanking or hairbrushing, he will soon be jumping at the thin, intense pain of the stripes across his nether cheeks.1996, Lorelei, The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl’s Guide to Female Dominance, Scranton, Pennsylvania: Berkana Press, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry hairbrushing
  • Elders en nergens elders, forever arriving, forever saying vaarwel, the nether we posit there, the coast of a landfall with unfamiliar light, with time unclockable and space uncertain and walled.1982, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: six stories, page 236. From the entry unclockable

Meaning of nether

  1. adjective Lower; under.
  2. adjective Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
  3. adverb Down; downward.

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Questions about nether in a sentence

How do you use nether in a sentence?
Nether is used as an adjective, adverb and verb. For example: “The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.”
What is a short sentence with nether?
“the nether regions”
What does nether mean?
Nether means lower; under.

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