gulf
noun
a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land.
gulfy
-
a word derived from
gulf.
Example Sentences
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Now at their native realms the Greeks arrived; All who the wars of ten long years survived; And 'scaped the perils of the gulfy main.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
Did chosen chiefs across the gulfy main Attend his voyage, or domestic train?
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
The forces last in fair array succeed, Which blameless Glaucus and Sarpedon lead The warlike bands that distant Lycia yields, Where gulfy Xanthus foams along the fields.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
Of all the chiefs, this hero's fate alone Has Jove reserved, unheard of, and unknown; Whether in fields by hostile fury slain, Or sunk by tempests in the gulfy main?
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
There was no awfulness about it, as on the night when the gulfy sky stood over me, flashing with the heavenly host, and nothing was between me and the farthest world.
From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald
