abysses
- plural of abyss.
Example Sentences
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And while the play never explicitly explores its underlying theme—that music can help bridge the gaps, or the abysses, that divide people—the deft integration of story and song illuminates it naturally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Ripples of electronic feedback crest into peaks and valleys of stretched echoes, decayed into hollowed abysses.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
Tux is philosophically speculative, delivering aphoristic riffs that reveal Kierkegaardian abysses in such daily trivialities as a campfire, and mini marshmallows in cocoa.
From The New Yorker ● May 28, 2019
In other words, they seek the sharpening of distinctions everywhere, which means the opening of abysses where complexity and interaction once existed.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2015
Hitherto she had played with firearms and danced along abysses and juggled daggers in many a flirtation, but always she had kept her poise and felt no danger.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert
