abyss
Example Sentences
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Christopher swung in a long, fevered parabola and landed on hands and knees on the other side of the abyss.
From Literature
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But instead of getting devoured by the abyss, he says over Zoom, he honed in on making something “unknown.”
From Los Angeles Times
And while the play never explicitly explores its underlying theme—that music can help bridge the gaps, or the abysses, that divide people—the deft integration of story and song illuminates it naturally.
The war years were perhaps the darkest in all of human history, but the musicians and singers on these tracks are partying on in the face of the abyss.
To save music and its transporting magic from the abyss of forgetting, and to keep our sweetest musical memories from slipping away.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.