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

  • 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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