Examples of gulf in a Sentence
Noun
we dipped our feet in the warm waters of the gulf
the gulf of understanding between the two men was too wide for them to ever get along
Verb
with the administration gulfed by so many real problems, it's absurd for the president to concern himself with this nonissue
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Alexander Smith, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
This is bad enough, but then there’s the wide gulf of sensibility that separates Rock and Martin; the latter’s effete irony just doesn’t gel with Rock’s political trenchancy.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
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Noun
Even if Putin were to agree to this interim détente, there remains a gulf between the positions of Russia and Ukraine, which wants security guarantees before signing a ceasefire with a giant neighbor that has violated past agreements.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
This is bad enough, but then there’s the wide gulf of sensibility that separates Rock and Martin; the latter’s effete irony just doesn’t gel with Rock’s political trenchancy.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
So many gulfs separate us now: geographical, anatomical, psychological.
—Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
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“Gulf.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gulf. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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