noun
definition
A deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss.
definition
(by extension) A large difference of opinion.
Examples of chasm in a Sentence
On a mountain near their city, there was a narrow chasm or hole in the rocks.
There was nothing but a gaping chasm where the temple had been.
Jenn stared, the image of her lifeless daughter falling into the chasm replaying over and over in her mind.
His soul was … lost soon after we threw your old body into the deepest chasm in the mortal world.
Dunluce Castle, between Portrush and Bushmills, stands on a rock separated from the mainland by a chasm which is spanned by a bridge.
It is, tho, an almost unbridgeable chasm.
The chasm appeared to Dean to be a hundred feet or more to the river below.
This ethical teaching, which is indefinitely higher and purer than that of the Old Testament, is yet its true spiritual child, and helps to bridge the chasm that divides the ethics of the Old and New Testaments.
The consequence was the rapid extension and widening of the chasm that divided the German people.
It is thrown over the narrow chasm at a height of 86 feet above the Devon water.
So much for the increased horrors of the chasm of Loch Fyne when emptied.
A small, round object twice the size of a dinner plate appeared from the chasm and skimmed over several feet of grass to reach them.
The angel ignored her and dropped beside her, wringing his hands helplessly. The blond woman dangled over the widening chasm, clutching Katie's hand. She braced her feet against the side of the chasm and walked upward, until Toby could grab her belt. The angel pulled hard, and Katie pushed Deidre on top of the angel, who yelped.
Katie said, rising. The ground still rumbled, the trees surrounding both food cubes expanding fast and tearing up the ground in several directions as they did. She looked around, irritated to find she'd caused a chasm to form between them and the direction they'd been running.
It was as if this separation was by miles only, and not the great chasm created by the disappearance of Jeffrey Byrne.
He wriggled through the crowd to her, looking past her at the chasm and the woman sobbing beside it.
The memory of her Talia falling into the chasm returned, filling her thoughts.
His gaze lingered on Vara, and he wondered if the rumors of the widening chasm between him and his father were true.
The assault on Thebes was disastrous for the Seven; and Amphiaraus, pursued by Periclymenus, would have been slain with his spear, had not Zeus with a thunderbolt opened a chasm into which the seer, with his chariot, horses and charioteer, disappeared.
The most uncommon natural feature of the district, the Pink and White Terraces, was blown up in the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886, when for great distances the country was buried beneath mud and dust, and a chasm 9 m.
The sea floor is here rent by a chasm, known as the "Bottomless Pit," the waters having a depth of 65 ft.
Near the Giant's Causeway are the ruins of the castles of Dunseverick and Dunluce, situated high above the sea on isolated crags, and the swinging bridge of Carrick-a-Rede, spanning a chasm 80 ft.
An isolated portion, divided from the headland by a narrow chasm, is known as the Stack of Noup. Gentleman's Cave, 1 m.
Not only did the great chasm between the old Christianity, to which his soul clung, and the Christianity of the Scriptures as juristically and philosophically interpreted remain unbridged; he also clung fast, in spite of his separation from the Catholic church, to his position that the church possesses the true doctrine, that the bishops per successionem are the repositories of the grace of the teaching office, and so forth.
On one of his raids he and fifty of his companions were captured and thrown into the Caeadas, the chasm on Mt.
During the Italian turmoil the schism in Germany had made such alarming progress that it now proved impossible to bridge the chasm.
Bright orange, yellow, red and purple hues predominate and are set off very effectively against the dark green pines with which the margins of the canyon are fringed, and the white foam of the river at the bottom of the chasm.
He attacked the dominant Aristotelianism of the time, and endeavoured to construct a philosophy which should harmonize faith and knowledge, and bridge over the chasm made by the first Renaissance writers who followed Pomponazzi.
Over the chasm is a chapel del Crocefisso, the mountain having split, it is said, at the death of Christ.
In the case of St Stephen's, the peak on which it is built does nor rise higher than the ground behind, from which it is separated by a deep, narrow chasm, spanned by a drawbridge.
Lake Placid is the principal source of the Ausable river, which for a part of its course flows through a rocky chasm from 500 to 175 ft.
At the head of the Ausable Chasm are the Rainbow Falls, where the stream makes a vertical leap of 70 ft.
The only true glacier is on the northeast side, at the bottom of a large chasm which runs into the heart of the mountain.
Taurus, flows through a deep chasm walled in by lofty precipices, and is joined in the heart of the range by the Saris.
About a mile west of the town are the curious sea mills; a stream of sea water running down a chasm in the shore is made to turn the wheels.
This aperture is not the original mouth, the latter being a chasm a quarter of a mile north of it, and leading into what is known as Dixon's cave.
It is difficult to account for this intellectual chasm as due to some minor structural difference.
The chasm extends the whole breadth of the river and is more than twice the depth of Niagara, varying from 256 ft.
The only outlet is a narrow channel cut in the barrier wall at a point about three fifths from the western end of the chasm, and through this gorge, not more than 100 ft.
The tremendous pressure to which the water is subjected in the confinement of the chasm causes the perpetual columns of mist which rise over the precipice.
From opposite the western end of the falls to Danger Point, which overlooks the entrance of the gorge, the escarpment of the chasm is covered with great trees known as the Rain Forest; looking across the gorge the eastern part of the wall (the Knife Edge) is less densely wooded.
His soul was … lost soon after we threw your old body into the deepest chasm in the mortal world.
She held out her hand. Toby smiled grudgingly and took it. Katie led them around the island, trying to find some part of the chasm that was narrow enough to jump or a log they could roll across the gaping ravine.
At the very brink of the chasm his horse stood still.
The same crack extended below in the form of a yawning chasm, five or six feet wide.
The kids in casual clothes with messy hair are separated by a huge chasm from the conservative men in gray suits.
Many levels ran parallel across a deep black chasm.
Most famous of all are the magnificent Swallow Falls, situated where the Llugwy River hurls itself into a spectacular chasm.
She is sitting on a tripod, three legs going rather high over a huge chasm from which rises incense smelling heavy dense smoke.
Another widening chasm is the one between the largest teacher union and the government.