How to Use abyss in a Sentence

abyss

noun
  • Khamenei is on the edge of the abyss.
    — FOXNews.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • There are such wide abysses now of space and land between us.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2024
  • My first thought was to leave her to howl into her own abyss.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Ali has no choice but to look into the abyss of his own soul.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Turns out, the abyss has a DJ and an open bar.
    — Matt K. Lewis, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This hole, this pit, this abyss… does not seem to follow the laws of physics.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The decision to again step back from the abyss is wise.
    — Alexander Langlois, Oc Register, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Our great nation now teeters on the brink of a widening abyss.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
  • This movie will pull you into the abyss and consume your soul!
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Don’t wallow in self-pity and stare into the abyss.
    — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2025
  • This is where your glasses fall off your face and into the abyss.
    — Erica Lies, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2020
  • In those places —those abysses, those black holes—of empathy.
    — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The pressing question is where the slope ends and the abyss begins.
    — Kees Van Der Staaij, WSJ, 20 July 2017
  • Covid has turned the Row’s challenges into a brush with the abyss.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Their mouths moved with empty words that floated into the abyss.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Joe looks at his pleasant, comfortable life and sees an abyss.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
  • Those who love Andreozzi wondered how to reach her in the abyss of grief.
    — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • But the train itself was swept off its tracks and swallowed by the roiling abyss.
    — Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
  • This progress back from the public-relations abyss is the clear trend.
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 May 2025
  • Down to the other is a rainbow, which smiles across the roiling mist of the abyss.
    — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Darnold, still just 28, is back from the abyss and ascending.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • But there is an easy way to ensure your emails do not get lost in the abyss that is your main inbox.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
  • One thing is consistent, though, which is her taste for looking down the abyss.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Moving on and staying alive mean, for the most part, steering clear of that abyss.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But, as the saying goes, these artists were dancing and drinking on the edge of the abyss.
    — Karen Burshtein, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Some 400 feet of air yawned beneath him across a sandstone abyss.
    — Maya Silver, Outside, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Over the last few months, new thoughts had begun to emerge from the depths of my mind like creatures from the abyss.
    — Lane Scott Jones, Longreads, 25 June 2024

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