[ US /əˈbɪs/ ]
[ UK /ɐbˈɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
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How To Use abyss In A Sentence

  • When he looks at you like that, you feel like you're standing at the verge of a bottomless abyss, a void so deep that it has its own mystical gravitation.
  • Season of the Inundation: Sweet, black silt mingled with holy myrrh, melilot, hyssop, spikenard, balsam, cedar, and a hint of melting snow from the Abyssinian hills. Thor's Day
  • What are the possibilities and risks of according spirituality some therapeutic value for those on the edge of the abyss of self-destruction?
  • The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
  • The near-constant depth of the abyssal sea floor indicates that the lithosphere thickens to roughly 100 km in 70 million years, but then ceases to grow.
  • The presence of gold and silver in your portfolio will insure that you will emerge from the abyss with your capital intact.
  • And another home defeat left them staring the relegation abyss in the face. The Sun
  • Exhausted and semi-conscious, my peripheral awareness of a sort of beige abyss was occasionally punctuated by explosions of extreme color.
  • No bits of light or matter can climb out of these deep gravitational abysses.
  • The abyss of ethnographic otherness has been momentarily bridged.
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