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

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

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

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023

He darted furtive, guilty glances back as he fled in defeat, afraid the old woman might now start following him, and he welcomed the concealing shelter of the drizzling, drifting, lightless, nearly opaque gloom.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller