How to Use gulf in a Sentence

gulf

noun
  • At the very top of the sport, there is just a gulf in class.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Even a couple of miles can feel like too wide a gulf to cross.
    — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • In gulf states, 20 people have been killed.
    — Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2026
  • In the past few days, the gulf between the top brass and the rank and file has grown.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Across that gulf, love and memory strain.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
  • That appears to be a pretty wide gulf in terms of their outlook on things.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2022
  • There’s a huge gulf between the testosterone ranges of men and women.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2022
  • And all of the trawlers in the gulf and in Alaska are being shut down.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The gulf between the tea stall and the middle-class home of his friend Zain is not that great.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Pearl Hotel greets guests with coastal charm and a warm aesthetic, plus a gulf view.
    — Judith Garrison, AJC.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The Dodgers are the standard; there is not a massive gulf between the sides, but there is a gap.
    — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The gulf between the author of dry wit and the recipient who doesn’t get it.
    — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The all-suite hotel offers views of the gulf and the skyline as well as butler service.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • One of the senior gulf officials said the Houthis were on standby, ready to act.
    — Andrea Mitchell, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The gulf on spending between the two parties — and the two chambers — remains vast.
    — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The gulf between the schemes appeared too vast for the Dodgers to overcome in the first inning.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • There were 26 seconds between the two moments, a blink but also a gulf.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • There is still a significant gulf to reach the foothold soccer has in every corner of the globe.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • But once Palace began turning the screw in the second half, the gulf in quality showed.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • Now a gulf is growing between the phones on sale in the US and those available in the rest of the world.
    — Dominic Preston, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2026
  • They were now affected because a third of flights to Sri Lanka go through the gulf.
    — CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Naturally, that is a more expensive laptop, but the gulf in price isn’t so steep.
    — PCMAG, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The location of the rescue in the gulf was also not identified.
    — Sondra Hernandez, Houston Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2026
  • But there remains a gulf in perception across Europe between west and east, big and small.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
  • There’s a massive gulf between those teams and the Orioles right now, one that is bound to close in the coming years.
    — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The gulf between how late night talked about the queen’s death and how, um, almost everyone else talked about the queen’s death has been wild.
    — Vulture, 16 Sep. 2022
  • But there was a vast gulf between the Ukrainian and Russian diplomats.
    — Jared Malsin and Evan Gershkovich, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The gulf between red and blue states has widened significantly in recent years.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022
  • This vast gulf between us, not just as Americans but as human beings, has drained me of hope.
    — Bao Phi, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
  • That has stopped much of the oil shipped from gulf producers and knocked millions of barrels a day off the global market.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026

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