Thesaurus results for ABYSS

abyss

noun

ə-ˈbis

as in ocean

an immeasurable depth or space looking down at the dark ocean from the ship's rail, the cruise passenger felt as though he was staring into an abyss

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Recent Examples of abyss The horror has come now like a storm— what if this night prefigured the night after death— what if all thereafter was an eternal quivering on the edge of an abyss, with everything base and vicious in oneself urging one forward and the baseness and viciousness of the world just ahead. —

Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026 And that’s the abyss where San Diego State, and its hopes of a Mountain West regular-season title and an at-large NCAA Tournament invitation, descended on Saturday afternoon before a sellout crowd and a national CBS television audience. —

Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026 His vertiginous ending, suspended over a romantic abyss, redefines the very notion of an emotional breakdown. —

Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026 Measure out the width of your appliance, cut it to that size, and then stuff it into the gapped area to stop items from disappearing into the abyss. —

Candace Madonna, The Spruce, 15 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for abyss

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Research from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla in the mid-2000s found that underwater ocean noise off Southern California had increased tenfold compared with the 1960s.

— Patrick Whittle, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
The flowing layout seamlessly connects roughly 3,500 square feet of luxury interiors with about 2,700 square feet of exterior deck space and the surrounding ocean landscape.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2026