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How to use gulf in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun, verb

Gulf means a hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin. Example: “Only the gulf between them was widened still further by the Negro cops in the precinct, bad-mouthing among themselves about their fellow white cops unnecessarily throwing their authority around and singling out Sullivan as a prime example.”

Examples of gulf by meaning

nounA portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea.

  • the Gulf of Mexico
  • the Persian Gulf

nounA difference, especially a large difference, between groups.

  • Only the gulf between them was widened still further by the Negro cops in the precinct, bad-mouthing among themselves about their fellow white cops unnecessarily throwing their authority around and singling out Sullivan as a prime example.1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 106
  • England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour.2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport
  • The gulf between the Labour leadership’s past positions and the milder proposals in the manifesto means that enormous uncertainty hangs over what a Corbyn-led government would do in office.2018 May 17, “Corbynomics would change Britain—but not in the way most people think”, in The Economist

More sentences with gulf

  • The Red River, which flows from China across Vietnam into the gulf, follows this zone.1990 February 20, “SCIENCE WATCH; How Indochina Moved”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015…. From the entry Red River
  • Gulf impassable, breach indescribable, such as is perhaps non-existent south of the Trent.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC. From the entry collier
  • Manhattan was a line of constellations, the riverway a gulf of darkness in which were scattered stars.1921, Basil King, chapter 25, in The Empty Sack. From the entry riverway
  • There's a huge gulf between “must-have” and “nice-to-have” products.2021, Steven S. Hoffman, Surviving a Startup, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry must-have
  • The gulf between cinephiles and the public has grown wide.2016 March 3, David Thomson, “Biggest lesson of the 2016 Oscars? The Academy should be scrapped”, in The Guardian. From the entry oscar
  • At times, he looked at the gulf of dark heads looking up at him as if to a god.2001, Jorge Reyes, “Fidel”, in Rediscovering Cuba: A Personal Memoir, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry finger-point
  • But it's the rare chance for above-tree line skiing that draws backcountry powderhounds to the gulf again and again.1992, “Gulf of New Hampshire”, in Backpacker, volume 20, number 119, page 84. From the entry powderhound
  • Urging a Harvard University audience to bridge "the gulf between scientific and nonscientific cultures," England's Sir Charles P.1958 March 10, Time. From the entry goggle-eyed
  • The gulf between the ‘unimpressive’ Jesus and God himself does not have to be spanned by the Christologist.1958, Ronald W. Hepburn, “Meaning and Mediator”, in Christianity and Paradox: Critical Studies in Twentieth-Century Theology, London: C.…. From the entry Jesusologist
  • The gulf of mutual disinterest was unbridged.1948, Andrew Caldecott, chapter 2, in Fires Burn Blue. From the entry disinterest
  • Clathrus columnatus, the scientific name for the column stinkhorn, is a north Florida native which is common to many gulf coast locales.2019 April 19, “Colorful ‘dead man’s fingers’ emits foul odor”, in Tallahassee Democrat, page C3. From the entry column stinkhorn
  • There are still wide gulfs between them: the notgelds were issued by local authorities.Notgelds therefore were "official tokens" and had the force of legitimate money.2011 October 24, Watcher, “2011 Lundy Puffins”, in uk.rec.collecting.coins (Usenet). From the entry notgeld
  • The sharpness of the contrasts in the story reflects the depth of the gulf between rich and poor in the present life.1986, Luise Schottroff, Wolfgang Stegemann, translated by Matthew J. O’Connell, “‘The Poor Have Good News Preached to Them’: The Earliest…. From the entry uncrossableness
  • In video after video, he unspools comedy gold about the gulf between the earnest rituals of modern parenting and the essential, eternal weirdness of a small child’s inner life.2025 March 20, Amelia Nierenberg, “How George Lewis Made Comedy Gold Imagining Two Toddlers Chatting”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry comedy gold
  • By the time the Mississippi enters the gulf, its current has been transformed into a conduit for chemical nutrients, and this enriched current stimulates massive blooms of phytoplanktons.2014, Chris Maser, Interactions of Land, Ocean and Humans: A Global Perspective, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry dead zone
  • Old words do not reach across the new gulfs, and it is only in vision and oracle that we can chart the unknown and new-name the creatures.2004, Eva Maria Räpple, The Metaphor of the City in the Apocalypse of John, page 29. From the entry new-name
  • Mytilini, or Lesvos, as it is often called, is a large Greek lisland in a gulf formed by the Turkish coast in the northern corner of the Aegean Sea.1999, Ann Blackman, Seasons of Her Life, Scribner, →ISBN, pages 185–186. From the entry Lesvian
  • Actually, of course, it is apparent that there is a gulf wide and deep between Socialism as it manifests itself in America and the Nonpartisan League.1920, Herbert E[arle] Gaston, “The Nonpartisan League—What It Is”, in The Nonpartisan League, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe…. From the entry propagandum

Meaning of gulf

  1. noun A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
  2. noun That which swallows; the gullet.
  3. noun That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.

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Questions about gulf in a sentence

How do you use gulf in a sentence?
Gulf is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Only the gulf between them was widened still further by the Negro cops in the precinct, bad-mouthing among themselves about their fellow white cops unnecessarily throwing their authority around and singling out Sullivan as a prime example.”
What is a short sentence with gulf?
“the Persian Gulf”
What does gulf mean?
Gulf means a hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.

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