stygian

Example Sentences

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He parked next to a dimly lit footbridge, which wobbled with our passage above a Stygian chasm.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

Reynolds helped supply Melville with a more Stygian idea, by exhorting his men to attack Mocha Dick as “though he were Beelzebub himself!” — a demon rather than a whale.

From New York Times • May 2, 2020

There, Levi conjured a Stygian exoplanet of glissandos and microtones and processed percussive sounds, evoking the truly alien better than the most lavish special effects ever could have done.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 23, 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

His Stygian iron sword lay by his side, next to Hazel’s spatha.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan