GAP in a Sentence

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For GAP, below is one of 70 sentences:
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.

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 Meanings and Examples of GAP
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gap
 n.  opening through mountains; pass; conspicuous difference or imbalance
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  In her impatience she endeavoured to pass this obstacle by pushing her horse into what appeared to be a gap.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2  With bated breath and crouching figures they stumbled across it, and gained the shelter of the hedge, which they skirted until they came to the gap which opened into the cornfields.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
3  At the same moment a vague shadowy figure emerged from the gap for which they had been making, and uttered the plaintive signal cry again, on which a second man appeared out of the obscurity.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
4  The cows annihilated the gap; bridged the distance; filled the emptiness and continued the emotion.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
5  Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  There was a gap in the continuity of consciousness, almost American: but industrial really.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
9  It fills up a gap which I had been unable to bridge in this most complex affair.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
10  She had some reason to be disgusted with me now, and the gap between us began to be wider and wider.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
11  With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
12  On reaching the end of the Charlington grounds, he sprang from his machine and led it through a gap in the hedge, disappearing from my view.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
13  He ran distractedly, his pistol in his hand, towards a gap in the hedge.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
14  At last we were getting something positive, and yet it seemed a long gap between an absconding banker and Captain Peter Carey pinned against the wall with one of his own harpoons.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
15  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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  The children squeezed through a gap in the wall.
2  The gap in the fence was just wide enough for the sheep to get through.
3  He knows, too, how to bridge the gap between these two sorts of Democrat, old and new.
4  He helped us to fill in a big gap in our knowledge.
5  Nothing could fill the gap in her life left by his passing.
6  As generation gap exists, we must bear in mind that the younger people might not like that idea.
7  I was aware of a real generation gap between us.
8  Savings have been disposed of in order to meet the growing gap between income and expenditure.
9  Imagination will span the gap in our knowledge.
10  Measure the length and width of the gap.
11  A need exists to bridge the gap between theory and practice in nursing.
12  The gap between rich and poor has widened considerably.
13  Most recent opinion polls suggest that the gap between the two main parties has narrowed.
14  The report states that the gap between the rich and the poor has increased dramatically over the past decade.
15  We need more young scientists to fill the gap left by a wave of retirements expected over the next decade.