Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The Strait of Hormuz has been a critical trading entrepôt for centuries, a passageway between the Persian and Oman gulfs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

They will need answers if they are to bridge the generational gulfs exposed at recent general elections.

From BBC • May 19, 2023

Crooms wants to narrow some of those gulfs with the grant.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

We are connected, but the fact that we’re so disconnected in so many different ways, just trying to remind each other that with all of those gulfs, there is a way back.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2022

It was a skyless world, in which his eye, through dim gulfs of shadowy air, saw only ever-mounting slopes, great walls of stone behind great walls, and frowning precipices wreathed with mist.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien