CHASM in a Sentence

Learn CHASM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

30 example sentences for CHASM, such as:

1. Suddenly a huge chasm opened in the earth.
2. They could not see the bottom of the chasm.
3. A chasm separates my generation from my parents '.
4. It's going down the bottomless pit, down the chasm.
5. She stood at the edge of the chasm and stared into the void.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHASM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chasm
 n.  deep opening in the earth surface
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  She shuddered, turning her eyes from Cathleen as she realized how narrow was the chasm between quality folk and poor whites.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
2  He seemed to see her poised on the brink of a chasm, with one graceful foot advanced to assert her unconsciousness that the ground was failing her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
3  Duncan seized the favorable moment to spring to the body of Gamut, which he bore within the shelter of the narrow chasm that protected the sisters.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
4  Without waiting for a reply, he tore himself from the presence of the sisters, and joined the scout and his companions, who still lay within the protection of the little chasm between the two caves.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
5  Cries were heard in the startling vicinity of the chasm between the two caves, which mingled with hoarser yells that arose out of the abyss of the deep ravine.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
6  They were now in a straight and long gallery, in a chasm of the rocks, where retreat without encountering the animal was impossible.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
7  Phineas easily leaped the chasm, and sat down the boy on a smooth, flat platform of crisp white moss, that covered the top of the rock.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  On they came, and in a moment the burly form of Tom appeared in sight, almost at the verge of the chasm.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  Down he fell into the chasm, crackling down among trees, bushes, logs, loose stones, till he lay bruised and groaning thirty feet below.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  Before them, at their very feet, was the brink of a black ragged chasm hidden by the thick grass.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
11  It's going down the bottomless pit, down the chasm.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  Their departure made another material change at Mansfield, a chasm which required some time to fill up.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud, and the branches and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
14  A huge rock, falling from above, boomed past me, struck the path, and bounded over into the chasm.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
15  The bridge was a plank, and it crossed a chasm about four feet wide and two deep.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
Example Sentence:
1  She stood at the edge of the chasm and stared into the void.
2  A chasm separates my generation from my parents '.
3  Suddenly a huge chasm opened in the earth.
4  They could not see the bottom of the chasm.