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
Today, there are more than 300 species of anglerfish, which makes them the most varied family of vertebrates in the ocean’s lightless zone.
From New York Times • May 30, 2024
“At this point we have a lightless lighthouse until the Coast Guard can effect the repairs.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 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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