stygian
Example Sentences
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He parked next to a dimly lit footbridge, which wobbled with our passage above a Stygian chasm.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022
They are the occupants of the outsize bunk bed at the center of Sabine Dargent’s set, shrouded in Stygian shadows by Mark Galione’s lighting.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2019
The summer-stock theatricality of finding each other dissipated as the pair walked along the museum’s Stygian passageways.
From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017
Is the name a nod to the local passion for the Stygian side of the beer world?
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2016
He still held his Stygian sword, but his hands were dark and transparent like smoky glass.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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