abyss
Example Sentences
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The war years were perhaps the darkest in all of human history, but the musicians and singers on these tracks are partying on in the face of the abyss.
To save music and its transporting magic from the abyss of forgetting, and to keep our sweetest musical memories from slipping away.
It’s the confrontation between a sensibility and the abyss, not just touching the edge but coming away with a song, that makes a person seem everlasting.
“I’m supposed to know how to transmit information. Prices were moving so quickly I couldn’t get a fix. It felt like a black hole. The abyss.”
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The migratory sea creatures disappeared back down into the abyss.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.