Gulfs

Word GULFS
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ɡʌlfs/

Definitions and meanings of "Gulfs"

What do we mean by gulfs?

A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.

That which swallows; the gullet.

That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.

A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea

A large deposit of ore in a lode.

A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.

(Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.

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The word "gulfs" in example sentences

"gulfs" before mentioned and an occasional prominent sandstone wall or bowlder. ❋ Various (N/A)

It dawned on me that the gulfs between us will always be there, the things we can never know or be able to change. ❋ Shilo Morlang (2012)

Though the gulfs of Hell yawn'd yonder, though the Earth were ended there, ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is the loss everyone feels as soon as they are done growing and begin living as adults, either suddenly responsible or old enough to realize not only what is, but also what could be and the unbridgeable gulfs that lie between the two. ❋ Savannah Schroll Guz (2011)

Not so much heavy lifting, but hours, weeks even months of bum on chair faff free application on a single project which span gulfs of imagination. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I wanted to show how together the two can create vast, seemingly inseparable gulfs between people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"We're used to these vast gulfs between Republicans and Democrats on Afghanistan," Republican pollster Whit Ayres says. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For those directly affected it can spur nearly superhuman levels of heroism or drive people otherwise separated by the gulfs of class and race into a peculiar but necessary and oddly beautiful teamwork. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are no impassable gulfs, unless one chooses, as Mr. Burroughs does, to ignore the lower human types and the higher animal types, and to compare human mind with bird mind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Already the sun's rays were striking about the adventurers, but the darkness of night still shrouded the two great gulfs into which they peered. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Those students and protesters, on the other hand, as well as capturing Yemen's imagination and the world's attention, have proven quite capable of bridging the gulfs between tribes in Yemen and between Yemen and the outside world together, making them a force to be reckoned with as well. ❋ Dr. David Liepert (2011)

Let me offer a theory here about one of the many gulfs that separate the pundit class from real Americans. ❋ Robert G. Kaiser (2010)

Speaking to the Observer in the wake of the recent sequence of sex-related scandals, Gray claimed that the gulfs in understanding that divide men from women are being exacerbated by hormones, which are working against people achieving monogamy in a stressful world. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Even as he lay here, under the breadfruit tree, an intelligence that stared across the starry gulfs, so must all the universe be exposed to the ceaseless scrutiny of innumerable eyes, like his, though grantedly different, with behind them, by the same token, intelligences that questioned and sought the meaning and the construction of the whole. ❋ Unknown (2010)

None of them, it is worth pointing out, has ever fully embraced the term "minimalism", and the seeds of how differently the minimalist impulse would be taken up by later composers are already there in the huge aesthetic and temperamental gulfs that separate Riley's music from Reich's, or Glass's from Young's. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The material offers an unprecedented insight into the gaping cultural and societal gulfs encountered by US troops trying to win grassroots support for the west's vision of a peaceful, developing, united Afghanistan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a region known for governmental chaos, and vast gulfs between rich and poor, Uruguay has long been largely a stable, middle-class democracy with a 97% literacy rate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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