Examples of gulf in a Sentence
Noun
we dipped our feet in the warm waters of the gulf
the gulf of understanding between the two men was too wide for them to ever get along
Verb
with the administration gulfed by so many real problems, it's absurd for the president to concern himself with this nonissue
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Niall Stanage, The Hill, 17 June 2025
Now, Google Tells 2 Billion Users Given the gulf in quality between Bayern and Auckland City, should Kompany have played a more experimental lineup?
—Manuel Veth, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
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—Glen Carey, Bloomberg.com, 30 May 2017
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Noun
But there is a lot of evidence that the nation’s political gulf just keeps getting wider and more bitter.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 17 June 2025
Now, Google Tells 2 Billion Users Given the gulf in quality between Bayern and Auckland City, should Kompany have played a more experimental lineup?
—Manuel Veth, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
Verb
So many gulfs separate us now: geographical, anatomical, psychological.
—Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
Read More: Gulf Spat Escalates as Saudi Arabia, U.A.E. Media Attack Qatar
Institutional and individual investors from the GCC sold 34.6 million riyals ($9.5 million) of Qatari stocks on Monday, the most in a single trading session since March 21.
—Glen Carey, Bloomberg.com, 30 May 2017
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“Gulf.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gulf. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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