How to Use abyss in a Sentence

abyss

noun

• The bad news is that the event horizon marks the edge of the abyss.
  — Chris Impey, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2020
• Biden talked about pulling the country back from the brink of the abyss.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
• The pressing question is where the slope ends and the abyss begins.
  — Kees Van Der Staaij, WSJ, 20 July 2017
• My first thought was to leave her to howl into her own abyss.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• Down to the other is a rainbow, which smiles across the roiling mist of the abyss.
  — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• This is where your glasses fall off your face and into the abyss.
  — Erica Lies, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2020
• This movie will pull you into the abyss and consume your soul!
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
• Waking up alone in the middle of the night felt like staring into the abyss.
  — Annabelle Dunne, Vogue, 17 June 2018
• Covid has turned the Row’s challenges into a brush with the abyss.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• But the train itself was swept off its tracks and swallowed by the roiling abyss.
  — Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
• The abyss of deep purples and tar-like blacks pulls the bottom of the canvas toward the earth.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
• This hole, this pit, this abyss… does not seem to follow the laws of physics.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2022
• What, exactly, is out there in the abyss of deep space?
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• But, as the saying goes, these artists were dancing and drinking on the edge of the abyss.
  — Karen Burshtein, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2018
• This progress back from the public-relations abyss is the clear trend.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 1 Aug. 2017
• The oceanic abyss is home to some of the gnarliest creatures on Earth.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2020
• But there is an easy way to ensure your emails do not get lost in the abyss that is your main inbox.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• The fact is, there’s only way out to of the abyss and Weltman is the man holding the life line.
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 June 2018
• Those who love Andreozzi wondered how to reach her in the abyss of grief.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
• Hueningkai looks out the door before taking a leap of faith into the abyss.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2022
• The prospect of being trapped in a mental abyss of our own making is enough to put most people off.
  — Alexandra Jones, refinery29.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• This new adventure takes your crew deep down into the abyss on a search for the fabled sunken land.
  — Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2021
• Moving on and staying alive mean, for the most part, steering clear of that abyss.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• People who had spent years of their youth staring into the abyss wanted to have some fun.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021
• Embracing the abyss is hard to do, even for those of us who simply watch for a living.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 30 July 2021
• Just the abyss of another winter, rushing in to meet them.
  — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2023
• As ancestral people, we were left just kind of floating in the abyss.
  — Enuma Okoro, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Mar. 2021
• What if that merely pulls out the trap door and sends your program spiraling toward the abyss?
  — Mike Berardino, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
• The point is that our politics just took another step toward the abyss.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
• The reader is dropped into this abyss with little guidance.
  — Katie Kitamura, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024