stygian
Example Sentences
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He parked next to a dimly lit footbridge, which wobbled with our passage above a Stygian chasm.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022
They are the occupants of the outsize bunk bed at the center of Sabine Dargent’s set, shrouded in Stygian shadows by Mark Galione’s lighting.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2019
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 same is true of the second episode, “Fifteen Million Merits,” a Stygian tale of an immersively “gamified” society in which young lovers see a televised singing competition as their only possibility for escape.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014
Nico gripped the hilt of his Stygian iron sword.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
