lightless

Example Sentences

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They can go long periods of time without eating, can live underground in lightless caves and, most importantly, they spin silk.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Much of the deep ocean is vacant, with extremely cold, lightless regions making it difficult for life as we know it to survive.

From Salon • May 21, 2025

“At this point we have a lightless lighthouse until the Coast Guard can effect the repairs.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023

The boy grows up in the lightless void before managing to escape.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

For Taran, the horror beating in him like black wings came not from the livid features of the Cauldron warriors or their lightless eyes but from their ghostly silence.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander