(n.) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.
(n.) Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.
(n.) The center of an escutcheon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Berlin said it was not too late to turn back from the abyss, without proposing any decisions or action.
(2) The worldwide pattern of movement of DDT residues appears to be from the land through the atmosphere into the oceans and into the oceanic abyss.
(3) Updated at 7.42pm BST 7.19pm BST Summary Here's a summary of Obama's statement and Q&A: President Obama said that to avoid 'the abyss', Iraq must form a new, inclusive government.
(4) On Friday 10 June, five men charged with keeping Britain in the European Union gathered in a tiny, windowless office and stared into the abyss.
(5) One path, to be honest, leads to an economical abyss.
(6) Until May there had been hopes that Winehouse might have been finding her way back from the abyss.
(7) He also imagined himself sitting on a grassy knoll in Poland, a country he had never visited, surrounded by rolling hills as dawn broke over the roof of the world on 26 May to reveal not a bucolic scene but the reality of his position – perched over a white abyss.
(8) The Bethnal Green schoolgirls, however, appeared to vanish into the abyss after they landed in Turkey, never starring in propaganda videos or demonstrating what they were doing there.
(9) However, it is also home to pressure-preferring or barophilic bacteria, believed to be functionally dominant over shallow-water intruders at abyssal depths.
(10) He accused the Ukrainian authorities who took over after the fall of president Viktor Yanukovych of driving the country to the abyss.
(11) Nigeria has been poised over an abyss for a long time.
(12) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(13) After millennia of crossing the oceans in ignorance of what lies beneath, there is no longer any part of the abyss beyond our reach if we can find the will to go there.
(14) The question for those Labour MPs and others who can see where all this is leading, and want to stop Labour heading over the abyss, is what to do about it and when.
(15) Europe took a small step back from the moral abyss today, but it needs to do much more to provide clarity and turn this momentum into lives saved at sea.” The summit was called at short notice in reaction to the deaths of an estimated 800 migrants off the coast of Libya last weekend, drowned when their fishing trawler capsized in the biggest single tragedy in two years of attempts to flee sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East for southern Europe .
(16) "There was also no place that was covering music in the way that if you follow sports you go to ESPN, or like CNN with news, but with music you were just thrown into the abyss.
(17) "There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over" ... "Amen" from the crowd, " ... and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair ... " " Yes, Lord."
(18) Methanopyrus kandleri is a novel abyssal methanogenic archaebacterium growing at 110 degrees C on H2 and CO2.
(19) When exhausted European leaders emerged from all-night negotiations in Brussels last month with a "comprehensive" plan to claw the euro back from the abyss, they could have had no inkling that, less than a fortnight later, it would have so comprehensively collapsed.
(20) Putin said Kiev was pulling the country into an “abyss”.
Bottomless
Definition:
(a.) Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as Smallwood points out, efficiency savings are not a bottomless pit.
(2) But at the centre of it all, Pistorius remained utterly isolated, plunged into a seemingly bottomless pit of despair.
(3) With bottomless cynicism, Cameron relies on public ignorance on tax.
(4) When we were little, she was always tempting us with sugary treats: a bottomless Smarties bin and her legendary coke floats – a lump of vanilla ice-cream fizzing in a glass of cold cola.
(5) It’s because his is a spirit of fear and emptiness, that seeks only to fill his bottomless insecurity with worldly affirmations and idols, instead of humbling himself before the only One who can make him whole.
(6) Full disclosure (ahem): Vrulja Cove is also a haven for toplessness, and sometimes bottomlessness.
(7) Expired gas was collected by a bottomless metabolism chamber while the rats were on the treadmill for 120 min.
(8) As journalist Peter Maass noted , “The agency can take companies to court, but its overworked lawyers don’t really have the time to go the distance against the bottomless legal staff in Silicon Valley.” Maass concluded that the agency was low-tech, toothless – and defensive about work like his.
(9) There’s nothing good that comes out of the death of someone you love, but I have learned this: the magnitude and bottomlessness of the pain you feel is a testament to the love you shared.
(10) It is also a further indication that, given the £5.1bn they shelled out between them on Premier League football, neither Sky nor BT have a bottomless pit of funds .
(11) The pancakes came accompanied by "whipped butter" and a mysterious "maple-style" syrup and "bottomless" coffee, which the waitress flung into my cup from a glass pot with a practised jolt of her shoulder.
(12) Lord Smith said "difficult choices" would have to be made over what to protect because "there is no bottomless purse" to pay for defences.
(13) On Monday morning, before the demonstration, Philippe Martinez, secretary general of the powerful CGT union, told RTL radio: “For several years now, successive heads of Air France have suggested rescue plans … each time, it’s a bottomless pit with the same suggestions.
(14) 2) A duet makes fiscal sense during these tough times Because when you've got a bottomless bucket of talent and a finite amount of time (not finite enough, some may argue) you have to duet right (Geddit?
(15) But there’s nothing more for the NHS, which is not a “bottomless pit”: it just needs the scale of funds per capita of an ageing population that it had 10 years ago.
(16) But even with expensive lawyers and bottomless pockets, this was a clear case of users’ rights – so we felt it was the right time to stand up and draw a line in the sand.
(17) "Ministers have a responsibility to retain a high degree of budget control, not least because the LCF is not a bottomless pit of money, it is paid for through the energy bills of households and businesses and as such excessive deployment of subsidised projects could and would lead to higher bills for the public."
(18) Michael Hewson of CMC Markets said Monte dei Paschi seemed like a bottomless pit: “With the Italian economy continuing to contract, and 18% of the bank’s loans being problematic, it is hard to envisage a scenario where the bank won’t end up like Oliver and coming back and asking for more.” By contrast, Germany’s Commerzbank gained 9% and Austria’s Raiffeisen was up 7.3%, after passing the tests.
(19) Arnett may say he’s looking to get more serious, and I hope he does, but BoJack proves, happily, his reluctance to kill that old creepy Arnett I love so much, and for that I’m bottomlessly glad.
(20) She writes: With its European partners reluctant to ‘throw money into a bottomless pit’ Samaras’ insistence that Greece requires no more money is supposed to reassure.