ABYSS in a Sentence

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For ABYSS, below is one of 72 sentences:
When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABYSS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
abyss
 n.  enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit; any deep, immeasurable space; hell
Classic Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  With the constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
2  Nevertheless, we will remark cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the hideous assassin of the towns.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
3  What separated two men more than an abyss was to say, the regicides, or to say the voters; to say the enemies, or to say the allies; to say Napoleon, or to say Buonaparte.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
4  With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
5  Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
6  When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
7  It was high time; one minute more, and the exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into the abyss.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
8  With the sad and innocent sagacity of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from that doll.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
9  Human nature is made thus; the other tender emotions of his youth, if he had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
10  They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
11  When the bridge fell, an abyss was formed.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
12  Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which Thenardier had disappeared.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
13  This communicates with the abyss.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
14  He thought that he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
15  It seemed to her that she had begun to live in an abyss, and that it was Jean Valjean who had rescued her from it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
Example Sentence:
1  One day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyze its nature.
2  Are we to believe that the only thing between us and the abyss is the size of the deficit, and the more the government borrows, the better off we shall be?
3  By what instinct do you pretend to distinguish between a fallen seraph of the abyss and a messenger from the eternal throne -- between a guide and a seducer?
4  The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
5  The country might plunge into the abyss of economic ruin.
6  They stared into the abyss, which didn't stare back.