Example Sentences

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General Li Mi, 50, is the handsome, scarfaced Nationalist who controls the Chinese Nationalist guerrillas entrenched in the chasmed wilderness that is Burma's border with China.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up vistaed hopes, I sped; And shot, precipitated Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those strong Feet that followed, followed after.

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

The music beats, up the chasmed street, Then flares from around the curve; The cheers break out from the waving crowd: —Our soldiers march, superb!

From Eight Harvard Poets by Cummings, E. Estlin

Up vistaed hopes I sped; And shot, precipitated Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those strong Feet that followed, followed after.

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle

He indicated the mountain that rose, sharply cut and chasmed, back of the town.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)