stygian

Example Sentences

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The lights on some turbines pollute the Stygian sky.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2021

The summer-stock theatricality of finding each other dissipated as the pair walked along the museum’s Stygian passageways.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

Is the name a nod to the local passion for the Stygian side of the beer world?

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2016

The pictures – dramatic, intense, Stygian and insistently putting the Bible into the here and now – were like nothing seen before and their effect was instantaneous.

From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2016

A sword appeared in the giant’s hand—a Stygian iron blade much like Nico’s, except five times the size.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan