How to use abyss in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word abyss? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples It's a picture of all-knowing Newton, the defining scientific mind of world history, staring into the abyss of unknowing. Although there is an abyss of difference between the means of the two campaigns, there are also a few notable similarities. There are 170 miles and an abyss of sectarianism separating Glasgow and Inverness. The cultural abyss had grown too wide to be crossed using traditional methods. There remains an abyss between man and God, but this abyss inspires wonder and praise. The abyss between the generic business and the tight, small world of the famous classified growths is vast. Like Ignatieff, McEwan explores the abyss between middle-class lives shrouded in material comfort and the demands of sudden human suffering. There is, at first glance, an abyss between saying that one has had an experience of God and trusting that one can experience God in one's life. These valuations have opened an abyss between person and person over which an Achilles of free thought could not leap, shutter how he may. And all the while people suffer, the abyss between rich and poor yawns, and exploitation continues as the bitterest fact of everyday life. A rare sight in the streets of Monrovia, Liberians know only too well they've miraculously been pulled back from the edge of the abyss. What are the possibilities and risks of according spirituality some therapeutic value for those on the edge of the abyss of self-destruction? I may enjoy dancing on the edge of the abyss, but I will never ever topple in, comprendi? Suddenly I felt like I was at the edge of the abyss again, with nothing preventing me from falling and falling. The presence of gold and silver in your portfolio will insure that you will emerge from the abyss with your capital intact. Connolly drags you screaming to the edge of the abyss, then calmly pushes you in. Horses rear in terror as the young Countess enters St Germain's palace and screams as she seems to be swallowed into an abyss of darkness. Starting at a climax and retreating from there, a logy middle section evaporates into a yawning abyss exactly five minutes wide. Glide into a deep blue abyss alive with bright small fish species, moray eels and madrepores. After the second world war, the gap between audiences and avant-garde composers opened into an unbridgeable abyss. Show More Sentences He was a dinosaur who, instead of crawling off to some distant tar pit to die, took an entire industry with him into the abyss. The tyrants, who would have disgraced the society of gods and men, were thrown headlong into the Tartarean abyss. The first dealt with Canada's creeping demographic abyss, the so-called baby bust. Man has no hope for salvation, only a chance for dignity, gained by absurdly carrying on in the face of the yawning maw of the meaningless abyss. Exhausted and semi-conscious, my peripheral awareness of a sort of beige abyss was occasionally punctuated by explosions of extreme color. He is a man on the edge of a mental abyss, a soul tortured by events in his past he dare not confront when sober. The tremor in his voice reflected a man looking over the edge of a very deep abyss. So I end that 2 o'clock in the morning mood on the abyss actually dancing, just beginning to tremor with dance. January was dimming into the equally cold, bleak abyss of New England weather that was February. Then suddenly he felt a blinding hit at the base of his skull, which sent him back into a black abyss. Every circumstance in church life offers an opportunity for the forces of the abyss to disrupt and destroy. No one ever goes to the abyss because it's too wide and deep and creepy and cold. We covered our faces to shield ourselves from the nausea and traversed deep into the abyss. The vindictive politics of the period may have pushed the nation over the abyss, but at least the cadres were squeaky clean. The abyss was stagnant, a body of water under massive pressure, barely warmer than freezing and utterly without light. The dark abyss of the mind and its complexes and obsessions must be conquered. Standing in this forest, in the shadows of the mountains, at the edge of the oceanic abyss, I can't help thinking about Judas Iscariot. There was a horrible sensation of plunging into the abyss, falling, falling as swiftly as a falcon in stoop. Mankind, divided and confused, still hesitates, vacillates like a sleepwalker on the edge of an abyss. With equal imperception it bent down and down, closer and closer to the lake waters, murky with the samba of subaqueous weeds and the abyss. Show More Sentences For the second year in succession, Carlisle are staring into the abyss of relegation from the Football League. The real abyss separating Deutscher from modern historiography is a moral one. And so to see a club like York City, once a byword for financial prudence and parsimony, to be staring over the abyss is a mortal blow. On the other hand, because of its nature as an abyss, it's an illimitable source for the plagiarist. Instead, we have had the usual farting around, and now here we are with 1,000 people staring into the abyss. What an infinitesimal fraction of time's fathomless abyss is assigned to each of us! It anchors itself by gaining purchase on the pitted, rough limestone, and then stretches the upper half of its body into the air of the abyss. He navigates through that abyss that few artists dare to explore, culling from the far reaches of jazz, lounge, disco, and even classical music. There shall beam forth shining rays from Thee, the true and fontal light, into the abyss of my heart. After a gasped curse, a word that a six year old shouldn't know, she picked herself up and sprinted deeper into the dark abyss. Making my hair turn gray were scenes of daredevils leaping across yawning gorges, hanging by one hand and an axe over the abyss. Alongside Faye Dunaway, Rourke trashed his glamorous image to drag the audience into an abyss of dipsomania. But already, they have caught up with the Dutch in their freefall into the moral abyss. In the late twentieth century, this schism would finally open into an abyss. Staring into the seemingly deep and empty abyss some imagine enormous sharks or the legendary giant squid. But as soon as he did so, the world turned and he was swimming downwards, down, down into the deep, dark abyss. It was a lonely walk, deep into an abyss that beckoned like a black hole, a fallen star. We slipped into the clear, seemingly bottomless aquamarine abyss to snorkel. And perhaps that new glow about the city is the lost sense of pride emerging from the deep abyss it fell into. The only thing that stands between us and the deep abyss of arbitrary executive power is the Rule of Law. Show More Sentences Less than 30 seconds later, Maready was treading water as she watched the red beacon light of her tail rudder spiral deeper into the dark abyss. There is an abyss between such rhetoric and the world we actually live in, an abyss called power. An abyss separates those who have served and sacrificed their blood for our freedom and those of us who have reaped the benefit. The result, when successful, is a welcome bridging of the sometimes yawning abyss between writer and critic. It sets these individuals on a separate plane, creating an unnatural abyss between the organizer and the people for whom one works. If the water is low and the wind favourable, they will be treated to a magnificent view of the falls and the yawning abyss below the Zambezi Bridge. Our lights barely reached the top of this dramatically sculpted abyss, and we sat in awe for a good ten minutes just peering up into its lofty heights. These conditions create the possibility for a new political force to arise quickly and fill the abyss between the ruling regime and popular aspirations. Slowly the sand crept over him and he gave in to the cocooned abyss. The abyss of ethnographic otherness has been momentarily bridged. This created the abyss between the real world and the supernal world. There are seven movements, the first six slow, sparely scored, and pregnant with anticipation before the finale explodes into a furious fugal dash to the abyss. Out of the abyss came mafia mobs, large-scale bribery and corruption. This means the descension of this country into an economic abyss. Admittedly, there is a huge abyss between thought and words. A cynic might question the use of religion as a landing pad when one is tumbling from a place of power into the abyss of iniquity. Fortunately for civilization, none of these conflicts, with the possible exception of the Cuban missile crisis, pushed the world to the abyss of global thermonuclear war. This imperishable writer's works resonated among the Chinese populace, living in an abyss of suffering at that time, winning him great popularity. They then hang over the gallery rail and stare into the abyss. Unaware of their own strength, they teeter on the edge of the victim abyss. Show More Sentences And it felt as if leukaemia was nudging me towards the edge of the abyss. In the month since elections produced not one but two presidents, the country has teetered on the abyss of violence. To the top of the crumbling Gormenghastian edifice we climbed, leaned backwards over the abyss and landed a big old smacker on the legendary stone. Then time seemed to become an abyss a perpetual fall that would never end. And my beloved Zimbabwe has sunk from a promising beacon into an abyss of greed and dictatorship. But when patients open their jaws, he totters on the abyss and gets no steadying hand from God. And when I made the abyss, which had a giant wave scene in it, those stopped. At one point he fell down a crevasse and was left dangling in the abyss from a rope, up which he dragged his disintegrating body. He succeeds in part here, but there's the sense that he could have gone closer to the edge of the abyss, to show what it is really like to take the Road To Perdition. If she were such an abyss of insincerity as to dissemble distrust under such frankness, she must at least be more subtle than to bring her doubts to her rival for solution. To me, death was a mysterious, dark, horrible thing that would catch you and drag you down into a deep abyss, away from everything and everyone you loved. Once I was passing along the side of a deep abyss that seemed to spiral down forever and a strong wind started to blow, as if it were trying to push me in. The ship turned sideways, with its right side overlooking the deep abyss at the center of the Maelstrom, slowly traveling in the water's currents. The abyss is not an empty void, but full of nature's wonderful mysteries. Reluctantly, my left hand on the railless wall on that side, my right hand extended out into the blank abyss in the other direction, I began the descent. He figured that the deep abyss he was falling into must have a bottom. His attempts to conceal these secrets push him deeper into the very abyss. When he looks at you like that, you feel like you're standing at the verge of a bottomless abyss, a void so deep that it has its own mystical gravitation. The companions walked in a huddled group as each of them kept looking over their shoulders and deep into the dark abyss, unable to close their eyes even for a second. Predators of the bristlemouth turn out to include dragon fish and fangtooths, denizens of the abyss with daggerlike teeth. Show More Sentences Theatre of the absurd denies rationality, and embraces the inevitability of falling into the abyss of the human condition. The vista is fine, with all of the major fell groups well seen and views down into the abyss of Deepdale only yards away. They are doubts from the abyss that drag their cold and slithery bodies across the soul. We were contemplating Urd Werdande Skuld of 1983, which shows a vast, vaulted passageway receding into an abyss, a fire flickering at its centre. Biologists looked into the abyss and the abyss looked back, with lots of little compound krill eyes. Hollywood, too, became enraptured by the exotic abyss of Stanleyville. An incomplete or incorrect URL can leave you lost in an abyss of unsuitable sites. Diving for the best part of 40 minutes I was treated to an overload of colour and beauty, from tiny clown fish to towering sea fans, reaching out into the blue abyss. Corny Littmann is the openly gay former president who led the club back from the abyss before quitting this summer having brought them back to the top. Conservationists say the combination of tropical islands, unspoiled coral reefs and adjacent oceanic abyss makes the area a biodiversity hotspot of global importance. 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. It can take you to faraway places, probing the ice caps of Antarctica, studying the tribesmen of Amazonia or diving to the depths of the oceanic abyss. Gandalf faces the Balrog, and both of them fall into the abyss. However, ecosystem structure and function at the deep seafloor have historically been very poorly studied because of the size and remoteness of the abyss. From here ground falls away into the profound abyss of upper Wasdale. The singer Britney Spears, whose descent into a personal abyss has become a ghoulish worldwide spectator sport, yesterday left a Los Angeles hospital. Blues were staring into the abyss before Caddis popped up to nod in from a yard after Bolton defender Tim Ream blocked a Nikola Zigic header on the line. Examples from Classical Literature Have we, then, only escaped from positivism to fall into the abyss of scepticism? It preferred a dull existence of simple honesty to a roisterous feast on the brink of a moral and financial abyss. Here, an intumescence which was to become a mountain, there, an abyss which was to be filled with an ocean or a sea. It was a dread of the abyss, the dread of the crags which seemed to nod upon me. Can that be the abyss of which mythology warns us under the fable of the Danaides and their cask? And lo and behold, when he turned the magnesium light upon it, the said abyss was just about eight feet deep. She was ultimately carried by an afrit to the abyss of Eblis, in punishment of her many crimes. The keystone being struck out, the whole arch-work of sansculottism began to crack, till the abyss had swallowed it all. First one and then another endeavoured to ascend, but with a strength unequal to the task, they fell back into the mephitic abyss. I must ever wish you well, but walking and us is separated by an unfarmable abyss. And for their less fortunate brothers and sisters, the unfavored laborers, the driven people of the abyss, they cared nothing. Kirkwood groaned with despair of his inability to fathom the abyss of his self-contempt. In one of the earliest inscriptions in Sumerian he is mentioned with Anna and Enki, the gods of heaven and the abyss. Their figures, unfixed in the abyss, have been shifted like errant sands of Earth. At that time there was no earth nor sea nor heaven, nothing but the icy abyss without bottom, whence Ymir the giant had sprung. The issue of our enterprise hung on a hair above that abyss of waters which will not give up its dead till the Day of Judgment. It extends from the uppermost height to the nethermost abyss. The nadir of night was passed, but there was cold and voidness, an abyss. But the youngest brother determined to explore the abyss, and letting himself down by the rope he soon reached the bottom. Pierre could divine that an abyss was opening, and dared not insist. Show More Sentences But if one falls, that is no reason to throw oneself in the abyss. Between this time and that I am now speaking of was an abyss. The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death. Abscond anchovies, asudden an Adelie armada, all abreast and aqua aboil, accelerates across an abyss and appetites are abated. Was this bluish light in the abyss the source of the light in the Cone? This had suddenly dawned before him like a bottomless abyss. Lanoline had risen out of the abyss, like a faint smell, a goblin football, telling of a life where love and hatred had both decayed. He indicates an imaginary abyss, which Jem stares at dubiously. Except on the very edge of the abyss there was scarcely a handhold. Pausing in his intention to turn off the gas burning in the middle of the shop, Mr Verloc descended into the abyss of moral reflections. Between the two was a wild abyss of work, of despair, of tiding over. They did not actually use this archaic abyss as a bunker, because it was by tradition unfathomable, and even for practical purposes unfathomed. But the Mercenaries found it no easy task to cope with the people of the abyss and at the same time fight with the comrades. Horror-struck, I hastened to the brink of the abyss just in time to see two splashes upon the surface of the little cove below. It is the combination of modern humanitarianism with the horrible modern abyss between the souls of the rich and poor. A Latin tag came into my head about the facile descent into the abyss. The volcano was sucked down into a watery abyss while what remained of the island was covered in a thick layer of pumice. And beneath will be the abyss, wherein will fester and starve and rot, and ever renew itself, the common people, the great bulk of the population. This unexpected testimony from the archer re-encouraged the recluse, whom this interrogatory was forcing to cross an abyss on the edge of a knife. A drawbridge had to be found which could be dropped across the abyss. Show More Sentences When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings. Clouds impend over their summits, and the thoughts pierce the vast abyss. She saw herself sink from the sublime height of motherhood to the somber depths of unmodified slavery, the abyss of separation between her and her boy was complete. Find more words! Another word for Opposite of Meaning of Rhymes with Sentences with Find word forms Translate from English Translate to English Words With Friends Scrabble Crossword / Codeword Words starting with Words ending with Words containing exactly Words containing letters Pronounce Find conjugations Find names From Afrikaans From Albanian From Amharic From Arabic From Armenian From Azerbaijani From Basque From Belarusian From Bengali From Bosnian From Bulgarian From Catalan From Cebuano From Chichewa From Chinese From Corsican From Croatian From Czech From Danish From Dutch From Esperanto From Estonian From Farsi From Filipino From Finnish From French From Frisian From Galician From Georgian From German From Greek From Gujarati From Haitian Creole From Hausa From Hebrew From Hindi From Hmong From Hungarian From Icelandic From Igbo From Indonesian From Irish From Italian From Japanese From Javanese From Kannada From Kazakh From Khmer From Korean From Kurdish From Kyrgyz From Lao From Latin From Latvian From Lithuanian From Luxembourgish From Macedonian From Malagasy From Malay From Malayalam From Maltese From Maori From Marathi From Mongolian From Burmese From Nepali From Norwegian From Polish From Portuguese From Punjabi From Romanian From Russian From Samoan From Scots Gaelic From Serbian From Sesotho From Shona From Sinhala From Slovak From Slovenian From Somali From Spanish From Sundanese From Swahili From Swedish From Tajik From Tamil From Telugu From Thai From Turkish From Ukrainian From Urdu From Uzbek From Vietnamese From Welsh From Xhosa From Yiddish From Yoruba From Zulu To Afrikaans To Albanian To Amharic To Arabic To Armenian To Azerbaijani To Basque To Belarusian To Bengali To Bosnian To Bulgarian To Catalan To Cebuano To Chichewa To Chinese To Corsican To Croatian To Czech To Danish To Dutch To Esperanto To Estonian To Farsi To Filipino To Finnish To French To Frisian To Galician To Georgian To German To Greek To Gujarati To Haitian Creole To Hausa To Hebrew To Hindi To Hmong To Hungarian To Icelandic To Igbo To Indonesian To Irish To Italian To Japanese To Javanese To Kannada To Kazakh To Khmer To Korean To Kurdish To Kyrgyz To Lao To Latin To Latvian To Lithuanian To Luxembourgish To Macedonian To Malagasy To Malay To Malayalam To Maltese To Maori To Marathi To Mongolian To Burmese To Nepali To Norwegian To Polish To Portuguese To Punjabi To Romanian To Russian To Samoan To Scots Gaelic To Serbian To Sesotho To Shona To Sinhala To Slovak To Slovenian To Somali To Spanish To Sundanese To Swahili To Swedish To Tajik To Tamil To Telugu To Thai To Turkish To Ukrainian To Urdu To Uzbek To Vietnamese To Welsh To Xhosa To Yiddish To Yoruba To Zulu English French Afrikaans Word Albanian Word Arabic Word Bengali Word Chinese Word Croatian Word Czech Word Danish Word Dutch Word English Word Finnish Word French Word German Word Greek Word Hindi Word Hungarian Word Icelandic Word Indonesian Word Italian Word Japanese Word Korean Word Latin Word Malay Word Malayalam Word Marathi Word Nepali Word Norwegian Word Polish Word Portuguese Word Romanian Word Russian Word Serbian Word Slovak Word Spanish Word Swahili Word Swedish Word Tamil Word Telugu Word Thai Word Turkish Word Ukrainian Word Uzbek Word Vietnamese Word Welsh Word All words 2-letter words 3-letter words 4-letter words 5-letter words 6-letter words 7-letter words 8-letter words 9-letter words 10-letter words 11-letter words 12-letter words 13-letter words 14-letter words Plural of Singular of Past tense of Present tense of Verb for Adjective for Adverb for Noun for Meaning of name Origin of name Names meaning Names starting with Names of origin abyss Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search Advanced Word Finder See Also What is another word for abyss? What is the opposite of abyss? Words that rhyme with abyss What is the plural of abyss? What is the adverb for abyss? What is the adjective for abyss? What is the noun for abyss? Translations for abyss Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words abysmally abysmal abysm Abydos aby ABV abyssal abyssal plain abyssal zone abysses Abyssinia abyssinian 5-letter Words Starting With a ab aby abys