stygian

Example Sentences

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Reynolds helped supply Melville with a more Stygian idea, by exhorting his men to attack Mocha Dick as “though he were Beelzebub himself!” — a demon rather than a whale.

From New York Times • May 2, 2020

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

The pictures – dramatic, intense, Stygian and insistently putting the Bible into the here and now – were like nothing seen before and their effect was instantaneous.

From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2016

In my pocket, the Stygian ice dog whistle started to grow colder, freezing against the side of my leg.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan