Sentences with 'abyss'
Example sentences and phrases with the word abyss and other words derived from it.
• « Penrose, then 33, was one of the few scientists who took seriously the idea of what would later become known as "black holes" - stars that have collapsed in on themselves, forming the ultimate bottomless abyss, into which anything can fall, but from which nothing can escape. »
• « There, where the view almost blends into the black abyss of space, is Io, another of Jupiter's satellites. It is that red spot floating in the darkness, as if someone had wanted to leave a testimony of its passage through the Universe, dropping a single drop of its blood; a strange rose shining in a black garden where the silence of winter reigns. »
• « In the same year he threw 5,000 prisoners into an abyss at Ispahan and made a pyramid with 70,000 human heads. »