gulfs in English

noun
1
a deep ravine, chasm, or abyss.
The canyons - or gulfs , as the local people call them - are each about five miles long and 800 feet deep and are rimmed almost continuously by sheer sandstone cliffs.
synonyms:holecrevassefissurecleftsplitriftpitcavitychasmabyssvoidravinegorgecanyongully
2
a large difference or division between two people or groups, or between viewpoints, concepts, or situations.
a wide gulf between theory and practice
synonyms:dividedivisionseparationgapbreachriftsplitchasmabyssdifferencecontrastpolarity
noun

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "gulfs" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "gulfs", or refer to the context using the word "gulfs" in the English Dictionary.

1. I drove at a crawl through the gulfs and gullies.

2. Its two northern gulfs form the coastline of the Sinai Peninsula.

3. ‘There are more sensuous pauses and pensive gulfs between his Allegrettos and adagios.’

4. Between them girders and gantries of black iron ran like gigantic roadways spanning gulfs of empty air.

5. ‘There are more sensuous pauses and pensive gulfs between his Allegrettos and adagios.’

6. Still Gulfs splurge might be better spent if governments were doing even less of the splurging.

7. Synonyms for Couloirs include canyons, gorges, ravines, passes, gulfs, defiles, gaps, gulches, flumes and gills

8. Bays and gulfs are concavities formed by tidal erosion in the coastline of an ocean, lake, or sea

9. There are yawning gulfs stretching down into the abyss which have often swallowed up cities that have fallen into them.

10. Plankton and benthos monitoring was carried out in 200 The results in main gulfs were shown as followed in table

11. And he began to read the Odyssey, which of all books spoke to him most vividly across the gulfs of time.

12. Because of the several penetrating gulfs, few points within the ancient boundaries were more than 60 km (40 mi) distant from the sea.

13. No voice divine the storm Allayed, No light propitious shone; When, snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each alone: But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he

14. The very word Blackens before our eyes with necromantic characters -- again we plunge into its gulfs desirous of what we dread -- again, "in pleasure high and turbulent," we climb the cliffs of Cairngorm.

15. There is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comet’s tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a Cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mocking imps of Tartarus.