stygian
Example Sentences
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A subtle reference to Serra’s father, a pipe fitter at a shipyard near San Francisco, it also puts us in mind of Charon’s ferry, shuttling souls across Stygian waters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
He parked next to a dimly lit footbridge, which wobbled with our passage above a Stygian chasm.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022
Roger Allam’s pungently played Roy Jenkins is heard pontificating on “the Stygian gloom” of Brussels, though his Continental discontent doesn’t keep him from knocking back the Château Lafite.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2017
The same is true of the second episode, “Fifteen Million Merits,” a Stygian tale of an immersively “gamified” society in which young lovers see a televised singing competition as their only possibility for escape.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014
Under the stone arch, Nico di Angelo was holding his black Stygian iron sword, gesturing at Frank to hurry.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
