How to Use abyss in a Sentence
abyss
noun-
The bad news is that the event horizon marks the edge of the abyss.
— Chris Impey, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2020 -
Biden talked about pulling the country back from the brink of the abyss.
— Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020 -
And this is part of the whole looking into the abyss thing.
— Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024 -
For hikers, the Rim Trail acts as the main artery snaking through the woods along the edge of the abyss for 13 miles.
— Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2021 -
The vote in 1994 was a time of hope — but in the weeks before, the country came close to the abyss.
— Joao Silva, New York Times, 27 May 2024 -
The pressing question is where the slope ends and the abyss begins.
— Kees Van Der Staaij, WSJ, 20 July 2017 -
This hole, this pit, this abyss… does not seem to follow the laws of physics.
— Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2022 -
Covid has turned the Row’s challenges into a brush with the abyss.
— David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020 -
Down to the other is a rainbow, which smiles across the roiling mist of the abyss.
— Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022 -
If you're known to lose your items in the abyss of your purse, opt for this bag from Dagne Dover.
— Rebecca Carhart, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2022 -
The fact is, there’s only way out to of the abyss and Weltman is the man holding the life line.
— Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 June 2018 -
But, as the saying goes, these artists were dancing and drinking on the edge of the abyss.
— Karen Burshtein, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2018 -
The oceanic abyss is home to some of the gnarliest creatures on Earth.
— Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2020 -
Hundreds of racing LEDs pave the way into the dark abyss of the desert night.
— Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2023 -
My first thought was to leave her to howl into her own abyss.
— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023 -
There are such wide abysses now of space and land between us.
— Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2024 -
The abyss of deep purples and tar-like blacks pulls the bottom of the canvas toward the earth.
— Washington Post, 16 July 2021 -
Life at the bottom of the abyss At the bottom of the ocean, miles below the surface, is a potato.
— Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023 -
What, exactly, is out there in the abyss of deep space?
— Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 2 June 2021 -
The [small space] between you and the abyss is really just right there in front of your face all the time.
— Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024 -
Those who love Andreozzi wondered how to reach her in the abyss of grief.
— Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022 -
This is where your glasses fall off your face and into the abyss.
— Erica Lies, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2020 -
Over the last few months, new thoughts had begun to emerge from the depths of my mind like creatures from the abyss.
— Lane Scott Jones, Longreads, 25 June 2024 -
This movie will pull you into the abyss and consume your soul!
— Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023 -
Waking up alone in the middle of the night felt like staring into the abyss.
— Annabelle Dunne, Vogue, 17 June 2018 -
But the train itself was swept off its tracks and swallowed by the roiling abyss.
— Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023 -
This progress back from the public-relations abyss is the clear trend.
— Conrad Black, National Review, 1 Aug. 2017 -
The horses leapt, a black tide of heavy bodies and blue flame, and Dawes hurled the trumpet into the abyss.
— Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022 -
The season ended, the credits rolled, and I was tossed into the abyss of inessential programming.
— Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024 -
The training slowly pulled him out of his psychological abyss.
— John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2024
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