Sentence examples for abyss- from inspiring English sources

"I really don't think anyone in Clapham is going to be setting fire to the water coming out of their taps," I tell you, adding, "No, your house isn't going to tumble into some newly created abyss".

"Greece is moving ever closer to the abyss," he added.

As it turned out, though, crisis was averted; it became cathartic, as if they needed to look into the abyss to get going.

Related: 100 days of solitude: Syriza struggles as Greeks once again stare into the abyss The warnings came as the European commission slashed its forecast for Greece's growth rate this year, predicting the economy would expand by a mere 0.5%, compared with the 2.5% it had projected barely three months ago.

In pulling back from the abyss, JFK secured his place in history (and laid the ground for the nuclear test ban treaty signed weeks before his death).

The up was unrelenting, and the trail precipitous, its edges dropping into a granite abyss.

Such practice, he argued, opens the way to "the greatest abyss of corruption".

Wasn't I just lucky to be allowed to explore my deepest fears in fiction, a safe place where I dared to peer over the edge of the abyss, and could even use what I saw there?