abyss
Example Sentences
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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.”
From Literature
The migratory sea creatures disappeared back down into the abyss.
From Literature
Not long ago, Gardner and Williams were reasons to hope that the Jets were close to clawing their way out of their perpetual abyss.
Before any of that, though, the Dodgers walked right to the edge of the abyss and contemplated the end of their budding dynasty.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
