How to Use abyss in a Sentence

abyss

noun

• He was fired 2 ½ seasons later and so began the death spiral into the abyss.
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 May 2018
• On Rick and Morty, that voice is a drunken, nihilistic howl into the abyss.
  — Sean O'Neal, GQ, 30 May 2018
• That’s the role of the artist: to stare into the abyss of hurt and attempt that which passes all current understanding.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Yes, there were some loonies (those caricatures in Nunsense and Sister Act didn’t spring from an abyss).
  — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• For more than a year, my mattress functioned as a sinkhole, pulling me down into an abyss that didn’t exist physically but was very much real in my mind.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 17 May 2018
• For the thrill-seeker, have a seat at the edge of the thin ledge extending out from the quartzite and sandstone promitory forming the lookout and extend your feet into the abyss.
  — Michael J. Bailey, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
• The Proposal seems to travel in the abyss of reality show concepts, with zero self-awareness about itself.
  — Meagan Fredette, refinery29.com, 28 May 2018
• Francis’s merely airing these questions — as well as the place of homosexuals in the church — represents to him a look into the abyss of doctrinal chaos.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Apr. 2018
• Another day, Don West and Judy Robinson team up to keep another ship from falling into an abyss just long enough to siphon fuel from it.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
• The film’s challenging, somewhat flawed second half transforms Charley from working-class kid with a father, a semi-stable life and some pocket money to a young man on the edge of the abyss.
  — Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2018
• And as ineffectual as Giroux has been in this series – and really Couturier before his injury – that seems to be a byproduct of the abyss in talent between the teams.
  — Sam Donnellon, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• 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
• And this is part of the whole looking into the abyss thing.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
• For hikers, the Rim Trail acts as the main artery snaking through the woods along the edge of the abyss for 13 miles.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2021
• The vote in 1994 was a time of hope — but in the weeks before, the country came close to the abyss.
  — Joao Silva, New York Times, 27 May 2024
• The pressing question is where the slope ends and the abyss begins.
  — Kees Van Der Staaij, WSJ, 20 July 2017
• This hole, this pit, this abyss… does not seem to follow the laws of physics.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2022
• Covid has turned the Row’s challenges into a brush with the abyss.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• Down to the other is a rainbow, which smiles across the roiling mist of the abyss.
  — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• If you're known to lose your items in the abyss of your purse, opt for this bag from Dagne Dover.
  — Rebecca Carhart, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2022
• 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
• But, as the saying goes, these artists were dancing and drinking on the edge of the abyss.
  — Karen Burshtein, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2018
• The oceanic abyss is home to some of the gnarliest creatures on Earth.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2020
• Hundreds of racing LEDs pave the way into the dark abyss of the desert night.
  — Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2023
• My first thought was to leave her to howl into her own abyss.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• The abyss of deep purples and tar-like blacks pulls the bottom of the canvas toward the earth.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
• Life at the bottom of the abyss At the bottom of the ocean, miles below the surface, is a potato.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
• In a recent study published in Science, researchers took the deepest look yet (opens a new tab) at how cells have adapted to life in the abyss.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2024
• Discovering so many rare and likely new species is exciting, but far more unknown species lurk in the abyss just waiting to be discovered.
  — Ashley Balzer Vigil, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024