How to Use chasm in a Sentence

chasm

noun
  • The chasm could be too much to overcome.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There have only been two ways to cross this chasm.
    Judy Stecker, STAT, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Cayenne emerges from the great chasm, made red by the brake lights above her.
    Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • The glacier rests atop an enormous chasm more than 2 miles deep.
    Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2020
  • And that is where the huge chasm exists between the teams.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Over time, the divide became more of a chasm.
    Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a chasm which has been getting wider every year.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Nowhere is the chasm clearer than in the metaphors each side chooses.
    Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • But the chasm between this movie and the first continues to grow.
    ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • But the chasm between this movie and the first continues to grow.
    Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Still more vast than the terrain is the chasm between the brothers.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The media is partly to blame for this chasm, the experts write.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The media is partly to blame for this chasm, the experts write.
    Author: Karen Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Tesla’s job cuts will help narrow the gap, but a chasm remains.
    John D. Stoll, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
  • But over the last year, a chasm has grown between the two leaders over how to move forward.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
  • That was the chasm between the new guys coming into Vice and the old ones.
    Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The chasm between those teams and the best of the rest, is monumental.
    Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 19 June 2018
  • The chasm in style of the college and pro games increasingly widens.
    Barry Wilner, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
  • But the meeting, in March, found them on opposing sides of a chasm.
    New York Times, 21 May 2022
  • This gap used to be the most unbreachable chasm in marketing.
    Jason Barnard, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2025
  • If the lawsuit succeeds, the chasm between sick and healthy would return.
    Sarah Gantz, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2018
  • Yet, talks have dragged with a notable chasm separating the two sides.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The chasm looked like a painful cavity that took up most of the tooth’s chewing surface.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
  • Marketing sees the chasm between brand promise and the app.
    Alex Kreger, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • 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
  • The gap between true contention and what the Warriors put on the floor this year was a chasm.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Rarely has the chasm between rank-and-file-workers and the extremely wealthy been this wide.
    Charles Riley, CNN, 1 Mar. 2021
  • While there has been a good amount of movement, there are still some wide chasms on a few key issues, sources caution.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2026
  • This is an almost unfathomable chasm.
    Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 25 Nov. 2025

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