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
Sometimes we come to a fuller reckoning of ourselves through the most Stygian passageways.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023
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
For the next 90 minutes, we traveled the Stygian depths separately, our frantic text messages to each other getting through only when our trains briefly surfaced over the East River.
From Washington Post • May 8, 2016
He unsheathed his Stygian iron blade and approached the archway.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
