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
The incident left her concussed, needing to stay in a lightless room for five days and only worsened the chronic migraines she has battled as an adult.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2024
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 basement was a meandering complex of rooms so lightless I may as well have explored them blindfolded.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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