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chasm - use in sentences
Converse of object
- yawn: The same crack extended below in the form of a yawning chasm, five or six feet wide.
- gape: Anne could not forgive this very public humiliation and it widened the breech between them into a gaping chasm.
- cross: Lloyd George " you don't cross a giant chasm in small steps " .
- bridge: The professors say the project is an effort to bridge the chasm between the two peoples.
- span: In spanning any chasm, it is necessary to take account of the resources available.
- fill: Pour yourself out and fill the chasm: give the spirits of earth and darkness their due, and there will be peace.
Converse of subject
- separate: The kids in casual clothes with messy hair are separated by a huge chasm from the conservative men in gray suits.
Adjective modifier
- unbridgeable: It is, tho, an almost unbridgeable chasm.
- deep: Many levels ran parallel across a deep black chasm.
- vast: A pause, then the moment of truth: a torrent of liquid gold falls into the vast chasm of desire.
- spectacular: Most famous of all are the magnificent Swallow Falls, situated where the Llugwy River hurls itself into a spectacular chasm.
- narrow: It is thrown over the narrow chasm at a height of 86 feet above the Devon water.
- huge: She is sitting on a tripod, three legs going rather high over a huge chasm from which rises incense smelling heavy dense smoke.
Modifies a noun
- project: The final session of the CHASM project took place in Bulgaria from the 7th to 11th February 2005.
- action: The content and methodology of each of the CHASM survey actions was decided at the plenary session.
Noun used with modifier
- widening: Another widening chasm is the one between the largest teacher union and the government.
- skill: A skills chasm has emerged in European enterprises between the business requirement to roll out converged IP networks and existing in-house expertise.
Preposition: in
- earth: Loggers tear down forests, mining corporations rip open chasms in the earth and free tribal societies are exterminated or assimilated.
Preposition: of
- difference: We were not, in reality, papering over a huge chasm of difference in the ambitions of member states.
- incomprehension: Or sometimes we do; sometimes there are chasms of inequality and/or incomprehension; there may be violence and confrontation.. .
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