3 example sentences showing how to use chthonic, grouped by meaning.
adj Living in the underworld.
The young pantheon had remanded their elders to the role of smouldering, chthonic gods; to inhabiting dark, deep places, hidden from mortal eyes and influence.
A most striking thing about Hainin’s fauna is how chthonic it is.
— Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History (2018)
Beowulf's mood as he gets ready to fight the dragon - who could be read as a projection of Beowulf's own chthonic wisdom refined in the crucible of experience - recalls the mood of other tragic heroes.
— Seamus Heaney, Introduction (1999)
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