Fissure

Usage examples of chasm.

Plateau of Chasms, loomed from the desert, a long ribbon of blue stone running three hundred miles from Algeria into the kingdom of Tripoli, skirting the edge of the Ahaggar Mountains and the lush oases that dotted the southern desert.

Rio de la Banca, we came to the long bridge which swings in mid-air from rock to rock across the chasm through which the Great Speaker rolls his swift, roaring flood.

All around there was nothing but a black, smothering emptiness darker and more forbidding than the blackest chasm of the Underdark.

The stone bridgeway was narrowed some, I guess, and the jungle in the chasm is part natural, part man-made.

Then he flung the pieces from him and they arced out to either side, over the low walls of the bridgeway and into the chasm below, and it was the end of a weapon that had many evil deeds to its name.

When he announced the chasm, Chex unshipped the ladder and pushed it out over the void.

Finally they hauled the ladder the rest of the way across, and Chex made a running leap and hurdled the chasm as before.

Its face was pockmarked with craters and chasms, crisscrossed with hundreds of crevices.

Far over the sea to a great chasm, where he must gather crystals as blue as your skies and bring them to Mertyn and Riddle and Quench.

Then, after they reached Cil Chasm where they intended to stay, she and Rish and Dunker, two charter members of her personal fan club at Pehanron, had spent an hour fishing along the little river, up into the canyon and back down again.

And it exposed the yawning chasm that divided grassroots America from media elites.

It seemed that Callista was almost heartbreakingly distant, that they were trying to talk across a great and aching chasm which lay between them.

Emily Mamani is obsessed with the legend of the Survivors, aliens that somehow escaped the ancient devastation wrought in the Chasm.

The gap between the ship and the gig began widening again and before it should reach proportions of a chasm Stephen made a galvanic spring, landing on the lowest step and grasping the manropes with all his might.

And earnest to explore within--around : And ever as he went he swept a lyre : And, if my grief should still be dearer to me : And like a dying lady, lean and pale : And many there were hurt by that strong boy : And Peter Bell, when he had been : And said I that all hope was fled : And that I walk thus proudly crowned withal : And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountains : And when the old man saw that on the green : And where is truth?