gulf
Example Sentences
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In a contest many expected to expose the gulf between elite boxing pedigree and crossover ambition, unbeaten Usyk looked uncharacteristically laboured.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
As this cold, dry air flowed over the relatively warmer waters of the gulf, it began to transform.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2026
The short answer is that a wide gulf exists between rumor and fact and Swalwell lurked in that gray space, living and thriving in the shadows between provability and denial.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
In that light, his tip wasn’t a kindness but a form of mockery: the billionaire Trump rubbing everyone’s noses in how vast the gulf is between them.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026
Looking at it gave her a sense of vertigo, as if she were looking not up but down, and across a gulf so wide that nothing could ever pass over it.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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The United States
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