Synonyms for bottomless pit


Grammar : Noun


Définition of bottomless pit

  • noun extremely hopeless situation
Example sentences :
  • And of the bottomless pit, and the flames of hell everlasting.
  • Extract from : « Poems » by William D. Howells
  • For it seemed to him that it must be the death of him followed by a lightless, bottomless pit.
  • Extract from : « Within the Tides » by Joseph Conrad
  • The patio, in its blackness, was like the rectangular mouth of a bottomless pit.
  • Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • The noise of a thousand seas was in the air, and the smoke of the bottomless pit.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • And so she got into the middle of the bush, and went flop into the bottomless pit.
  • Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
  • "It's like looking into the bottomless pit," shivered Delia.
  • Extract from : « The Jolliest School of All » by Angela Brazil
  • I'll see you to the bottomless pit before I'll move another inch!
  • Extract from : « The Root of Evil » by Thomas Dixon
  • We surely resembled devils from the bottomless pit rather than men.
  • Extract from : « Tea Leaves » by Various
  • You must be standing on the very brink of the bottomless pit.
  • Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant, a harpy, that devours everything.
  • Extract from : « The History of John Bull » by John Arbuthnot

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