Gap

Examples

• They were merry and social, but they each knew that a gap, never to be filled, had been made in their circle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Substances which, like an air gap, interfere with the flow of electricity are called non-conductors, or, more commonly, insulators. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Get thee down, Robert Jordan whispered to Agustín, and he turned his head and flicked his hand _Down, Down_, to Anselmo who was coming through the gap with a pine tree, carrying it over his shoulder like a Christmas tree. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If you hear firing bring them up to the woods behind the gap. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• At that moment, the carriage appeared in the distance, through the gap, on its way to the lodge-gate. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• McPherson was therefore sent around by the right, to come out by the way of Snake Creek Gap into the rear of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This organization of murder as a sport and show serves to measure the great gap in moral standards between the Roman community and our own. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then hunger closed the gap between them, and the son of an English lord and an English lady nursed at the breast of Kala, the great ape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He left a sad gap behind him, when he left my lady's house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His animals, too, had been starved, and their carcasses lined the road from Cumberland Gap, and far back towards Lexington, Ky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• After advancing a few hundred yards, Ezra Jennings stopped at a gap in the rough stone wall which shut off the moor from the road, at this part of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The sick man seemed to fall into a gap of death, at her contradiction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Down below the gaps in the ties the river ran muddy and fast. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Where are the doubts that should have honored these investigations, the frank statement of all the gaps in knowledge, and the obscurities in morals? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The message necessarily left large gaps for conjecture; but all that he had recently heard and seen made these but too easy to fill in. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• There were great gaps in his consciousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They do not perceive the want of connexion in their own writings, or the gaps in their systems which are visible enough to those who come after them. Plato. The Republic.
• There were gaps of silence in the talk, as the dinner got on, that made me feel personally uncomfortable. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• For light upon these extraordinary gaps in his teaching, each reader must go to his own religious guides. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Sheridan pursued him with great energy through Harrisonburg, Staunton, and the gaps of the Blue Ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The gaps remain, and there are not unpopular lodgings among the rubbish. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Editor: Lois