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• The disc unfortunately hyzered out into the abyss (OB).From the entry hyzer
• They saw the slope of evolution sliding ignominiously towards an inhumane, unnatural and unatheistic abyss.2006, Brien Masters, Mozart: His Musical Style and His Role in the Development of Human Consciousness, Temple Lodge Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry unatheistic
• They are doubts from the abyss that drag their cold and slithery bodies across the soul.2001, Fernando Pessoa, “Triangular Dream”, in Richard Zenith, transl., The Book of Disquiet, Penguin, page 243. From the entry slithery
• You’re looking for someone who’s going to hold your hand as you jump together into the abyss.2001, Tony Strong, chapter 21, in The Decoy, London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry dungeon-master
• It was also a nothingless abyss about which nothing could ever be known.1999, James H. Austin, Zen and the Brain, page 572. From the entry nothingless
• Jesus wept not only because these were his people who were lurching so unavertibly toward the abyss.1966', Helmut Thielicke, Life Can Begin Again: Sermons on the Sermon on the Mount (page 5). From the entry unavertibly
• He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss.1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring. From the entry fly
• Beyond the nearest branches of Transhimalaya an enormous abyss opened in the earth.1934, Sven Hedin, A Conquest of Tibet, New York: National Travel Club, →OCLC, pages 239–240. From the entry Transhimalaya
• “At every moment always act as if we’re walking on thin ice, as if on the edge of an abyss.”2022 August 6, Chris Buckley, Steven Lee Myers, Amy Chang Chien, “In Turbulent Times, Xi Builds a Security Fortress for China, and…. From the entry Yongchuan
• The UN Forces rescued me from the abyss of misery.2017, Mao Min, “The Korean War”, in The MAO Era before the Cultural Revolution (The Revival of China), number 6, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry Banmendian
• Predators of the bristlemouth turn out to include dragon fish and fangtooths, denizens of the abyss with daggerlike teeth.2015 June 29, William J. Broad, “An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions”, in New York Times. From the entry bristlemouth
• Something of the light that blazes invisible within the abysses of its normally opaque materiality breaks forth, with an increasing uproar.1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29. From the entry materiality
• The stilted sentences of his written sermon seemed no longer worth the agony of descending that abyss of surge to rescue.1923, Compton Mackenzie, “The First Sermon”, in The Parson’s Progress, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, →OCLC, page 23. From the entry stilted
• From the abyss, an individual rose with a simple dream, to unite his people as one, and build a meekless kingdom never to fall.2021, Jim A. Kingslay, Kings, volume 1, page 6. From the entry meekless
• The singer Britney Spears, whose descent into a personal abyss has become a ghoulish worldwide spectator sport, yesterday left a Los Angeles hospital.2008 January 6, David Randall, “Britney Spears, one-woman disaster zone, leaves hospital after two days”, in The Independent, UK…. From the entry spectator sport
• During his run from the police, he claimed to have a metaphysical experience which can only be described as “having passed through an abyss.”2006, Tsirk Susej, The Demonic Bible, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry run
• Sacrifice conceals the abyss of the Other’s desire, more precisely: it conceals the Other’s lack, inconsistency, “inexistence,” that transpires in this desire.1992, Slavoj Žižek, Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry other
• “HADOUKEN MOTHERFRICKERS!” I shouted as the ball struck the pyramid, caused it to shudder, and then sucked it into an astral abyss where it was completely consumed.2019 June 25, C. T. Phipps, The Future of Supervillainy, Crossroad Press. From the entry motherfricker
• When you’ve eaten all your Seville orange marmalade and you’re looking into a marmaladeless abyss, this mixture of grapefruit, sweet oranges and lemons is the one to make.2016, Theresa Storey, “Three-fruit marmalade”, in Fruit on the Table: Seasonal Recipes from the Green Apron Kitchen, Dublin: The O’Brien…. From the entry marmaladeless
• The rebellion ended with those involved in the rebellion being cast (evicted, exiled) from the Creator’s kingdom into a great abyss (void, space, i.e., realm) to call their own.2015, Randall C. Hale, “A Brief History as Reported in The Bible”, in War On…, Frederick, Md.: America Star Books, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry The Bible
• As we contront the crisis of civilization culminating in the specter of humanicide, is there an alternative to the present plunge of humanity toward the abyss of utmost violence?2012, Thomas Keating, The Thomas Keating Reader. From the entry humanicide
• It's also one of the most coupley of Abba's videos — they're actually interacting with each other instead of posing in geometric shots and gazing into existential abysses.2004, Elisabeth Vincentelli, ABBA Gold, page 70. From the entry coupley
• We live in the wind-chill, The what-if and what-was-not, The blown and sour dust of just after or just before, The metaquotidian landscape of soft edge and abyss.1997, Charles Wright, Black Zodiac. From the entry metaquotidian
• Arya Samajists nevertheless love Dayananda's expression concerning the Tirtha, the religious ferry, the spiritual arc by which the sea of sorrow in the abyss of pain is crossed.1992, Thillayvel Naidoo, The Arya Samaj Movement in South Africa, Motilal Banarsidass, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry Arya Samajist
• Both represent gropings of the human mind in the dark abysses of the past; both were in a measure grotesque anticipations of the modern theory of evolution.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 44. From the entry groping
• It is high time to look back from the abyss where we are going to step in and give up the brinkmanship until the point of no return is reached.1972 April–June, Salil Dutta, “Reviews and Notices of Books: Mahaprolay Ki Ghoney Asche? (Are the Last Days Nearer?) By Jagannath…. From the entry brinkmanship

Meaning of abyss

1. noun Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
2. noun A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
3. noun Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.

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Questions about abyss in a sentence

How do you use abyss in a sentence?

Abyss is used as a noun. For example: “They fell into the abyss of drug addiction.”

What is a short sentence with abyss?

“'Go back to the abyss prepared for you!”

What does abyss mean?

Abyss means hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.