chasm
Example Sentences
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The gap between European pretensions and European reality has become a chasm.
She likens it to watching a burglar pile up your prized possessions on the other side of an impassable chasm.
From BBC
Management argues that the wealth gap between clubs like the Dodgers and their small-market counterparts has become an insurmountable chasm, leaving some teams unable to compete.
Nothing much happens, until the segment’s finale introduces a twist that suggests the yawning chasm between what we think we know about our parents and what the truth of their lives is.
From Los Angeles Times
In a different sport, one where the wealth gap between the richest franchises and their small-market counterparts wasn’t a ginormous chasm, this would be a very busy winter for the Detroit Tigers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
