Example Sentences

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Where “Will” is told with a straightforward directness, confronting practical realities, “Nightshift” is a film of ambiguous evocation, existing in an interzone between waking, dreaming and nightmare.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

The result was “Spiral,” 52 minutes in the interzone, a cosmic axis where all points intersect, beholden to neither contemporary trends nor febrile nostalgia.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021

Not that the interzone between lucidity and dreaming is automatically a negative for a surreal experience.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2015

The synovial joints will form between the adjacent cartilage models, in an area called the joint interzone.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

For some, I imagine, this would be a disconcerting, frustrating experience, but I quickly got used to this linguistic interzone.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2010