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
He parked next to a dimly lit footbridge, which wobbled with our passage above a Stygian chasm.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022
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
His Stygian iron sword lay by his side, next to Hazel’s spatha.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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