stygian

Example Sentences

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Sometimes we come to a fuller reckoning of ourselves through the most Stygian passageways.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023

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

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

Nico di Angelo stood over her in his black overcoat, his Stygian iron sword at his side.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan