Sentence examples for a dark pit from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a dark pit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a physical location that is dark and resembles a pit, or metaphorically to refer to a situation that feels hopeless or depressing.
Example: "After losing his job, he felt like he had fallen into a dark pit from which he could not escape."
Alternatives: "a deep hole" or "a gloomy abyss".

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We passed a street that looked like a dark pit letting loose its buildings and people.

Mine was the generation that was sent into a dark pit".

The family toilet is a dark pit in the ground in a ramshackle backyard shed.

One Scottish hotelier responded to a poor TripAdvisor review by writing that his doctor had told him to "visualise my anger as a demon that lives in a dark pit".

The UK will "fall" into a dark pit of rationing and transport chaos if backbenchers defy the prime minister, or (as hard Brexiteers have it) the country will purify itself of self-doubt in a baptism of fire.

A box of parts that fit together like Lego and animated with a few lines of code should be enough for any kid to get a body of knowledge so deep that we won't be plunged into a dark pit of ignorance come 2040.

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If you were at the bottom of a deep dark pit, looking up at a solitary opening that was lit with sunshine and blue skies and your life depended upon the actions you took to dig your way out, what kind of effort would you exert to reach the top?

When a colony was gently removed a tiny dark pit was seen in the agar.

I struggled with depression and for a time it felt like I was in a deep, dark pit that I couldn't escape no matter how hard I tried.

I was in a deep dark pit".

I guess being plunged into a deep, dark pit of despair after reading hate speech is pretty "distracting".

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