stygian
Example Sentences
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A subtle reference to Serra’s father, a pipe fitter at a shipyard near San Francisco, it also puts us in mind of Charon’s ferry, shuttling souls across Stygian waters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
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
Perhaps that affection is stoked by a little bit of Stockholm syndrome in the cramped station, a Stygian den of low ceilings, stale air and confusing tunnels.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2016
“There’s nothing I hate worse than Stygian iron.”
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
