lightless
Example Sentences
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While you can’t help but appreciate the cherry red of the deep-sea atolla jellyfish, you will also learn why its unusual pigment persists in the lightless depths.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Much of the deep ocean is vacant, with extremely cold, lightless regions making it difficult for life as we know it to survive.
From Salon • May 21, 2025
The incident left her concussed, needing to stay in a lightless room for five days and only worsened the chronic migraines she has battled as an adult.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2024
“At this point we have a lightless lighthouse until the Coast Guard can effect the repairs.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023
They were standing in a windowless, lightless, cinder- block corridor that had doors at either end: this was the makeshift air lock, the gray zone.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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