Understand, once for all, that there is an impassable gulf between your life and mine.

It looked like an impassable gulf for a human being.

They were only sep- arated by a short span, and were bound close by ties of blood, but it was clear that an impassable gulf stretched between them.

He faced an impassable gulf.

An impassable gulf yawns between the different classes of mankind.

He approached until their fields merged and they were no longer separated by an impassable gulf of silence.

She took a breath to speak again and he silenced her, reaching across the gap between them before it became an impassable gulf.

Suddenly an impassable gulf had opened between him and the other man.

Henceforth there was no human hope for the two lovers; an impassable gulf separated them.

Vaguely Jamie recalled a myth about birds helping a Navaho hero to cross some impassable gulf.