ABYSMAL in a Sentence

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She spent hours sitting alone, in abysmal misery, because it seemed to be in plain sight, yet she couldn't define it.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABYSMAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
abysmal
 a.  bottomless; very profound; limitless; very bad
Classic Sentence:
1  There only fell on her an abysmal fear, a certain knowledge that God had turned His face from her for her sin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  At home she wondered if the little beast might not be suggesting himself as a rival to Erik, but that abysmal bedragglement she would not consider.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  The film was a highly advertised and abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair-dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  He no longer dares to tease her by assuming an abysmal inferiority of Freddy's mind to his own.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
Example Sentence:
1  She spent hours sitting alone, in abysmal misery, because it seemed to be in plain sight, yet she couldn't define it.
2  Students traditionally grouse about the abysmal quality of "mystery meat" and similar dormitory food.
3  The general standard of racing was abysmal.