Sentences with abyss
a·byss
A a - He felt he was on the edge of an abyss; one false move and he was done for.
- How big is the abyss between what you think you are and what you actually are?
- The abyss of ethnographic otherness has been momentarily bridged.
- We slipped into the clear, seemingly bottomless aquamarine abyss to snorkel.
- abyss of shame, of time, etc.
- The abyss of time.
- He figured that the deep abyss he was falling into must have a bottom.
- 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.
- An abyss separates those who have served and sacrificed their blood for our freedom and those of us who have reaped the benefit.
- It has brought us again to the edge of the abyss - the possibility of a return of stagflation.
- And perhaps that new glow about the city is the lost sense of pride emerging from the deep abyss it fell into.
- Although there is an abyss of difference between the means of the two campaigns, there are also a few notable similarities.
- The trees outside camp appeared as dark pillars gating a primeval hell, where behind lay only an abyss, hiding the forms of carrion crying from its depths to break the stillness.
- In the chill of the Arctic and Antarctic, as in the chill of the deep abyss, the sperm whale is warmed by what whalers call ‘the blanket’, which is eight inches of blubber.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ruler of the abyss between hell and earth with his consort Night.
- Like Ignatieff, McEwan explores the abyss between middle-class lives shrouded in material comfort and the demands of sudden human suffering.
- This manuscript was conceived while I sat on a ledge overlooking the abyss of hell.
- The cultural abyss had grown too wide to be crossed using traditional methods.
- I may enjoy dancing on the edge of the abyss, but I will never ever topple in, comprendi?
- The abyss between the generic business and the tight, small world of the famous classified growths is vast.
- Admittedly, there is a huge abyss between thought and words.
- 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.
- Skywalk, a glass walkway jutting out over the Grand Canyon, allows visitors the first spectacular view of the 1200-metre abyss below.