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How to use chasm in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Chasm means a deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss. Example: “With a cry of sheer derring-do, the climber leapt across the chasm.”

Examples of chasm by meaning

nounA large difference of opinion.

  • Chelsea may not have regarded themselves as title rivals to City over the whole season but this was a harrowing illustration of the current chasm between the two sides and made for disturbing viewing for the Italian.2019 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 6-0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport

More sentences with chasm

  • With a cry of sheer derring-do, the climber leapt across the chasm.From the entry derring-do
  • A chasm opened yawningly before them.From the entry yawningly
  • But self-discrepancy in those of use with ADHD can be a straightforward chasm.2024, Jessica McCabe, “How to Change the World”, in Elysia Liang, editor, How to ADHD, New York: Rodale Books, →ISBN, page 367. From the entry self-discrepancy
  • Those nightmare chasms choked with the pithecanthropoid, Celtic, Roman, and English bones of countless unhallowed centuries!1924, H. P. Lovecraft, “The Rats in the Walls”, in Weird Tales. From the entry pithecanthropoid
  • I miscalculated on the moon and the depth of our chasm.1915, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, The Journal of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. From the entry overwait
  • A recent report from the Aspen Institute highlights the gaping wealth chasm that has formed between homeowners and renters in America.2024 December 16, Samantha Delouya, “The median renter in America has a net worth of $10,400. The median homeowner’s net worth is…. From the entry renter
  • He was still a novice, and knew a trip down a chasm wouldn’t benefit him until he was on hardmode.2016, Winter Morgan, “Repeat”, in Attack of the Goblin Army (Tales of a Terrarian Warrior; 1), New York, N.Y.: Sky Pony Press, →ISBN. From the entry hardmode
  • After 50 years, legal segregation is a distant memory, and race in America is not the unbridgeable chasm it once was.2013 August 23, “Waking life”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2023. From the entry legal
  • The cracks the Tetrarchy induced in the facade of the stauker cabal are now widening into vast chasms.2013 April 1, kensi, “Re: The 2,000,000 line Murphy FAQ”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 Aug 2025. From the entry pwnz0r
  • Each unique backcourt was an adventure playground with walls to be climbed, chasms to be leaped and dustbins to be raked through and pillaged.2011 January 8, Brian McHugh, The Guardian. From the entry backcourt
  • A few lines from you would have erected a sylphidic bridge over the chasms that are part and parcel of any journey.1994, The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940, page 252. From the entry sylphidic
  • They call for the economics syllabus to be rewritten to reflect the chasm between the confident mechanistic models they are still taught and the real economy which went pear-shaped.2013 December 21, Malcolm Brown, “Without morality, the market economy will destroy itself”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian…. From the entry go pear-shaped
  • Earth that opens in chasms is altogether useless; and that which is rough can neither support the plants, nor does it afford the circulation of water.2010, Verena Winiwarter, “The Art of Making the Earth Fruitful: Medieval and Early Modern Improvements of Soil Fertility”, in Scott…. From the entry esculent
  • When he wrote this epistle to Corinth, quite a chasm existed already between the Paulines and the Apollonians, with something of a rift between Apollos and himself.1924, J[ames] Rendel Harris, “All Things Are Yours”, in As Pants the Hart and Other Devotional Addresses, London: Hodder and Stoughton…. From the entry Pauline
  • The sea is thy mirror, thou regardest thy soul In its mighteous waves that unendingly roll, And thy spirit is yet not a chasm less drear.1909, Charles Baudelaire, translated by Cyril Scott, The Flowers of Evil. From the entry mighteous

Meaning of chasm

  1. noun A deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss.
  2. noun A large difference of opinion.

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Questions about chasm in a sentence

How do you use chasm in a sentence?
Chasm is used as a noun. For example: “With a cry of sheer derring-do, the climber leapt across the chasm.”
What is a short sentence with chasm?
“A chasm opened yawningly before them.”
What does chasm mean?
Chasm means a deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss.

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