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Example sentences for "gap"

Lexicographically close words:
gaole; gaoled; gaoler; gaolers; gaols; gape; gaped; gapers; gapes; gaping
  1. The Indians remained with them until they crossed over Cumberland Gap into the Yellow Creek Valley, where Middlesboro now stands.

  2. I hate a split between old friendships as I hate the dirty gap in the face of a Cistercian monk, that will swallow anything.

  3. The brook's voice is not yours, and no flower, not The sun himself, should he be changed to one, Could shine away the darkness of that gap Left by the lack of love.

  4. And when we reached the summit of the pass above the turquoise lake we could see the road to Arezzo in a gap of the mountains, across a sea of vines.

  5. We passed through a gap which had once been a gate, and saw them plunging down the hillside holding the crumpled brown roofs of the little shrunken city in their elbow.

  6. These elevated documents remained elevated; life went on beneath them, and the tragic gap between law and life was so enormous that no one thought of bridging it.

  7. Rosinger, may be expected to fill an important gap in the literature on China today.

  8. Not far distant is the famous Dutch Gap Canal, the useful legacy which Butler left to the State of Virginia, and which, in the advantages it gave the commonwealth, to some extent atoned to my Soldier for the destruction of the Pickett home.

  9. His Dutch Gap Canal is not only a lasting monument to his progressive spirit, but a benefit to commerce and an interesting feature which has attracted visitors from many nations.

  10. By lengthening the wires between the spark gap and the camera the light is allowed to arrive first.

  11. It is this sudden release of the dammed-up current across the spark gap that causes the temporary magnetic field and the difference in the appearance of the light from the spark.

  12. When the electrical current jumps across the spark gap it sets up a momentary current in a set of wires running the length of the corridor and connected with the camera.

  13. The wires leading from the spark gap connect with this solution.

  14. The gap was just big enough to enable him to squeeze through it.

  15. Then it occurred to him that this very gap was now superfluous.

  16. Each matrix moves along until it arrives over the channel it is designed to enter when it comes to a gap in the teeth of the bar that are supporting it and drops into the magazine.

  17. Its range was small and consequently the blunderbuss type was invented to spread the charge of shot as much as possible so as to tear a wide gap in the enemy’s line and prevent it from closing in upon the operator of the gun.

  18. Half way round the circle, where the shadow of the tall tamarisk tree in the Smiths' garden cut a jagged gap in the white rim of wall, there was some change, something that had not been there a moment ago.

  19. And now the gap was back again, as it had been before.

  20. When blood and life mounted, and my torn side sewed up its gap in a healthy scar, adding another to my collection, autumn was upon us.

  21. The turnkey opened a gap of doorway through which he could see the candles and the bed.

  22. Three men, besides the General and the doctor, and my Oneida, showed a differing interest in me, while I lay with a gap under my left arm, in a hospital tent.

  23. There, then, must have been a vacancy in the upper jaw, a tooth broken off or gone entirely, and Stuyvesant remembered that as Murray spoke the eye-tooth was the more prominent because of the ugly gap beside it.

  24. In the meantime we have filled up this gap in our power with the word "forgetfulness," exactly as if it were another faculty added to our list.

  25. If that word fills up a gap in our power, might not the other words be found capable of filling up a gap in the knowledge which we possess of our power?

  26. There was a scrunch as the powerful jaws wrenched the woodwork asunder, leaving a jagged gap two feet across.

  27. At length they gained the entrance to the formidable gap betwixt the rocks, and here again, although lights shone in the guardhouse, none challenged them.

  28. Now there was room for the archers, and from the walls, the houses behind the breach, and the deadly gap itself flights of arrows sped into the Moslem ranks.

  29. There was still danger, however, and every available man was required to defend the ominous gap in the walls.

  30. He pointed to the gap in the cliffs, which now assumed the appearance of the letter Z turned slightly askew.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abyss; aperture; bottom; breach; break; breakage; burst; caesura; canyon; cavity; cessation; chap; chasm; check; chimney; chink; chip; clearance; clearing; cleave; cleft; col; crack; cranny; crevasse; crevice; cut; defalcation; defect; deficiency; deficit; defile; delay; dell; dike; discontinuity; discrepancy; disparity; distance; ditch; draw; excavation; fault; fenestra; fissure; flaw; flume; fracture; furrow; gap; gape; gash; gat; gill; glen; gorge; groove; grove; gulch; gulf; gully; hiatus; hole; hollow; incise; incision; inlet; interim; interlude; intermission; interruption; interval; joint; jump; lack; lacuna; lapse; leak; lull; moat; need; notch; omission; open; opening; orifice; outlet; pass; passage; passageway; pause; pore; ravine; rent; rift; rime; rive; rupture; scale; seam; shortage; skip; slash; slice; slit; slot; space; splinter; split; suspension; tear; trench; trough; vacancy; vale; valley; void; want; yawn