How to Use lightless in a Sentence

lightless

adjective

• The other twisted and whined at the end of a leash that Contreras clutched as the gales threatened to suck the mutt away into the lightless night.
  — Martin Kuz, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2018
• Yet what could be a more apt way to recall the dark days of spring than a muffled, echoless din in a tight, lightless canyon?
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 17 Mar. 2021
• I was forced to conduct a salvage operation that would take me to the lightless depths of the analog age.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 19 May 2017
• The baby fish return to the lightless deep before sunrise.
  — Erik Olsen New York Times, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• These lightless worlds can shine light on how planets formed and what happens to them after their star finally dies.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
• Within such a core’s lightless, dense depths, conditions can be cold enough for hydrogen ice to form.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 3 June 2020
• That’s because certain species of anglerfish have adopted what might seem like an extreme approach to the vast, lightless dating pool of the deep.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
• More art on the austere lower mezzanine, and on the platforms (another level down), would have enlivened the vast and lightless space.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2015
• In the city, young homeless people can be chameleons blending in with average New Yorkers by the bright lights of Times Square, the lightless halls of stations and terminals, and the pitch dark of alleys.
  — Nikita Stewart, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2016
• Her father should know, having spent decades hunched over an oak desk in a shipping company’s lightless front room along with a dozen other sallow men.
  — The Editors, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
• These tiny waves gradually stretched to hundreds of thousands of light years across as the expanding, lightless universe cooled down following the super-hot instant of inflation.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2014
• Black holes will evaporate, matter itself will eventually decay into radiation and the universe will be a cold, lightless, lifeless place for the rest of eternity.
  — Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• Its grasses and shrubs are beautifully adapted to survive winters in which their days are completely lightless, because the vegetation lies covered in a layer of snow, surviving mostly underground as roots.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024