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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Cnn Staff, CNN Money, 9 Jan. 2026
Leeds had 48 hours less time than Manchester United to recover and prepare for this game, within a wider run of four matches across 10 days, and could have conceivably won the match, despite the obvious gulf in wages and transfer expenditure.
—Beren Cross, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
Read More: Gulf Spat Escalates as Saudi Arabia, U.A.E. Media Attack Qatar
Institutional and individual investors from the GCC sold 34.6 million riyals ($9.5 million) of Qatari stocks on Monday, the most in a single trading session since March 21.
—Glen Carey, Bloomberg.com, 30 May 2017
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Noun
But that didn’t happen, and things reverted to normal with dissent crushed and an ever-widening gulf between the government and its subjects.
—Cnn Staff, CNN Money, 9 Jan. 2026
Leeds had 48 hours less time than Manchester United to recover and prepare for this game, within a wider run of four matches across 10 days, and could have conceivably won the match, despite the obvious gulf in wages and transfer expenditure.
—Beren Cross, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Verb
So many gulfs separate us now: geographical, anatomical, psychological.
—Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
Read More: Gulf Spat Escalates as Saudi Arabia, U.A.E. Media Attack Qatar
Institutional and individual investors from the GCC sold 34.6 million riyals ($9.5 million) of Qatari stocks on Monday, the most in a single trading session since March 21.
—Glen Carey, Bloomberg.com, 30 May 2017
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“Gulf.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gulf. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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