How to Use chasm in a Sentence

chasm

noun
  • Why, then, is there such a chasm between us in matters of gender identity?
    Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Art could, in this sense, bridge the Kantian chasm between subject and object.
    Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
  • That’s the No. 1 chasm among the states and well above 108% nationally.
    Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 13 June 2024
  • There might have been past Bay Area baseball seasons when the chasm between the two teams has been bigger or more glaring.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Today, the health care industry is facing an eerily similar chasm.
    Vivian Neilley, STAT, 4 Apr. 2022
  • As Russian forces try to squeeze Kyiv, talks to end the fighting have continued by video but failed to bridge the chasm between the two sides.
    Nebi Qena and Cara Anna, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2022
  • On the other side of the chasm from the W-2er, there’s still another tax world, one that’s even more foreign than that of business income.
    Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2022
  • But no team in the league will finish the season with as large a chasm between expectations and reality as the Lakers did.
    New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Over time, rainwater had worked its way into tiny fissures, and the wind followed, gradually widening the fissures into cracks and the cracks into chasms.
    Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The chasm that exists in talent — some of it, though not all, payroll related — between the Dodgers and Diamondbacks is significant.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
  • As executives and actors arguably edged ever further leftward — first closer to field goal range and then, according to conservatives, into the end zone — the distance became a chasm.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the recent past, the chasm between these teams has been evident in their demeanor.
    The Arizona Republic, 9 Apr. 2023
  • His behavior leads observers to seek the moral high ground, unaware that the terrain is all craters and chasms.
    Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The chasm in fundraising changed when Trump was convicted in his hush money case in New York.
    Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024

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