lightless
Example Sentences
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While you can’t help but appreciate the cherry red of the deep-sea atolla jellyfish, you will also learn why its unusual pigment persists in the lightless depths.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
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
There are writers at this very newspaper, all upstanding individuals, who would have you believe a mythologized weather pattern of doom is about to plunge our mountain-nestled utopia into an epoch of lightless despair.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023
The boy grows up in the lightless void before managing to escape.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022
It’s dark around me, but dark isn’t the word for it, more like lightless.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.