How to Use chasm in a Sentence

chasm

noun
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  • These tests are helping to fill a big diagnostic chasm.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Orth is both proud and wistful for that time after 9/11 when the chasm seemed invisible.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The twitching of a vein in his hand recalls the progress of the troupe of spelunkers through the narrow chasm and the scale map of its interior that one of their number is painstakingly drawing.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Their difficulty score during the team final was seven points behind the top team Japan, a chasm even perfect execution could not close.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
  • While video chatting with her mother and older brother recently, Tamsin Edensor suddenly felt a chasm split open in her heart.
    — Kate Springer, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Nearly 5 million people visit the mile-deep, yawning chasm every year to experience hiking, boating, camping and more.
    — Alana Wise, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
  • With resilience and technology as the new leitmotif, supply chains are now being upgraded in a manner that risks turning a mountainous gap into a chasm.
    — Radu Magdin, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Frustrated by the wait and desperate to protect their children, some parents are sneaking their 10- and 11-year-old kids across this chasm, and hoping not to get caught.
    — Sarah Hosseini, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2021
  • There’s a big difference between the ages of 17 and 23; but the gap between the late teens and slouching toward thirtysomething is practically a chasm.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The mystery itself is tightly constructed and suspensefully paced—until, as in Everett’s other novels, a chasm opens between form and content.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The $250 million question is whether the chasm between Tenet and most of the pandemic era releases is primarily due to the nature of those releases.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The chasm between the blind side in college and the NFL is wide.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Nowhere is the chasm clearer than in the metaphors each side chooses.
    — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • But the chasm between the U.S. and Iran precedes the rule of the ayatollahs.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Her unsteady words echoed through the hearing room, 35 miles and a chasm away from the Shakopee prison.
    — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Still more vast than the terrain is the chasm between the brothers.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • That’s the No. 1 chasm among the states and well above 108% nationally.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 13 June 2024
  • But the run was enough that the chasm of talent between the teams could carry Las Vegas the rest of the way.
    — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 30 July 2022
  • But the meeting, in March, found them on opposing sides of a chasm.
    — New York Times, 21 May 2022
  • The chasm between the haves and have-nots is about to become more profound than any time in the history of the sport.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023
  • But over the last year, a chasm has grown between the two leaders over how to move forward.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
  • There is a chasm between the great and the merely good, and the perception is that nobody is able to jump it.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • If not, the chasm with the U.S. and its financial hub will continue to grow.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Its meteoric rise on the world stage has closed the chasm between the West and the rest of the world, according to Milanović.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 16 June 2023
  • Each death is a daub of paint on a vast canvas, but for the bereaved, each opens up a gaping chasm of grief.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The chasm is so wide at this point that so many narratives and talking points are lost in the middle.
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2022
  • In fact, there’s now a $100 million chasm between the Patriots and Bills.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
  • But while Luhnow had Crane’s trust, Click never did, and the chasm only grew during the three years.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The white corpus callosum came into view at the floor of the chasm, like a white beach between two cliffs.
    — Will Self, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • Still, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings were not originally built to fill the endless chasm of streaming.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023

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