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227 examples of Abyss in a sentence

Instead, Europe’s powers-that-be, the Greek government, and the IMF blame one another for driving Greece’s people into an abyss.
The GOP has produced a presidential candidate with such a dim view of America’s prospects that he thinks the country has entered an abyss from which it may never emerge.
The truth is that, while Deng deserves appreciation for having brought China back from the abyss of Maoism, his approach – “Dengism,” or authoritarian developmentalism – is now impeding China’s prospects.
This summer, Europe will commemorate the centennial of the outbreak of World War I, which plunged Europe into the abyss of modern nationalist violence.
Nor would the region as a whole be stabilized; on the contrary, it would be plunged into an abyss.
Together, these crises have plunged the economy into an abyss.
They are not sleepwalking into the abyss; their eyes are wide open.
He described Auschwitz as “an abyss” and Jerusalem as “a peak,” with the former representing “enslavement” and “death” and the latter epitomizing “freedom” and “life.”
Even as Trump’s presidency fast approaches the abyss, leading members of the Republican Party have stayed largely silent.
Facing the abyss, France and Germany have devised a plan to mitigate the pandemic’s devastating economic fallout.
After the 2008 crash, a forceful (though delayed) response pulled the global economy back from the abyss.
Still, PO’s plunge into the abyss has been halted for now.
TEL AVIV – At long last, Israel has taken a step back from the religious nationalist abyss into which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had been leading it.
Put your foot down in the wrong place and you will plummet into the abyss.
But this third revolution in less than two decades puts Kyrgyzstan in real danger of sinking into an abyss of confusion and chaos.
Shortly after the financial-market jugglers had led themselves and the rest of the world into the abyss, the finance ministers of the world’s top 20 economies met to discuss joint responses.
Around the world, central banks have already pulled out all the stops, offering seemingly every policy response imaginable to prevent the economy from plunging into the abyss.
But the Kyrgyz people recognize and appreciate the fact that they have barely avoided falling into the political abyss.
Again, as on the previous occasion, he suddenly, without the least interval, felt thrown from the height of happiness, peace, and dignity into an abyss of despair, malevolence, and degradation.
The Voreux had been swallowed whole by the abyss.
But from the general background of all these human faces Emma's stood out isolated and yet farthest off; for between her and him he seemed to see a vague abyss.
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings—a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
Do you know to what an abyss I was dragging you, poor angel?
The luminous ray that came straight up from below drew the weight of her body towards the abyss.
She, on the contrary, had been joyous, without seeing the abyss into which she was throwing herself.
It went to the bottom of her soul, like a whirlwind in an abyss, and carried her away into the distances of a boundless melancholy.
He kept him for three quarters of an hour trying to open his eyes, to warn him of the abyss into which he was falling.
Now her situation, like an abyss, rose up before her.
'What a memory I shall leave behind me!'Sunk into the nethermost abyss of misery, a human being has no resource left but courage.
A profound silence was observed by each, until the companion of the officer that we have described suddenly started, and pointing eagerly with his sword into the abyss beneath, exclaimed,- "See!
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