chasmal 的定义
- a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface; gorge.
- a breach or wide fissure in a wall or other structure.
- a marked interruption of continuity; gap: a chasm in time.
- a sundering breach in relations, as a divergence of opinions, beliefs, etc., between persons or groups.
chasmal 近义词
等同于 cavernous
等同于 gaping
更多chasmal例句
- The Wizards lost, 119-97, to the Hornets after falling into yet another first-half hole — they have felt more like chasms lately — this one a 21-point deficit.
- The chasm in the party between its base and its elected leaders in Washington can be traced back to the cracks that emerged about a decade ago.
- Some of them appear to have erupted from volcanic pits or chasms within the last few million years, perhaps even within the last few tens of thousands of years.
- Allen and Cummings crossed lines that in America today increasingly resemble a chasm.
- A chasm had opened between me and my skin, as though I were fumbling around in a too-big pair of gloves.
- Over the next few years, a chasm would open up between the Party and the KGB, culminating with the failed coup in August 1991.
- I was writing a cover story for Newsweek about the chasm between white and black understandings of the Martin case.
- The result in all three cases is a chasm between image and performance that magnifies the narrative of dashed expectations.
- Inching towards the opposing positions will never bridge the yawning chasm between them.
- The vast chasm between these two groups and regular Republicans is something that Republican lawmakers can't easily bridge.
- At a distance of four miles from the colony, a waterfall foams down a chasm which it has worn away for itself.
- The procession, preceded by Bob on his feathered steed, passed through a chasm overgrown with brambles.
- In most cases the roofs over these sea caves fall in, so that the structure is known as a chasm.
- Two miles to the east the San Juan burst out of a defile of sandstone, and a mile to the west it disappeared in a similar chasm.
- He was in a chasm, twenty-five hundred feet below the average surface of the earth, the floor of which was a swift river.