All 38 Uses of
chasm
in
Divergent
- "If you follow me," says Four, "I'll show you the chasm."†
Chpt 7
- The chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy!†
Chpt 7
- If you can hang over the chasm for five minutes, I will forget your cowardice.†
Chpt 9
- I walk with her toward the railing that overlooks the chasm, glad to be close to her.†
Chpt 15
- I look toward the chasm.†
Chpt 15
- She isn't reacting the way some of the other transfers' parents are—her neck bent, looking around at the Pit walls, at the Pit ceiling, at the chasm.†
Chpt 15
- After they hung you over the chasm?†
Chpt 16
- I see Four standing by the chasm, a group of people around him.†
Chpt 19
- Drinking near the chasm.†
Chpt 19
- Do me a favor and stay away from the chasm, okay?†
Chpt 19
- I am on the Pit floor, next to the chasm, and the initiates stand around me, their arms folded and their faces blank.†
Chpt 20
- I'll delete the footage, but unless you want to wind up dead at the bottom of the chasm, you'll figure out how to hide it during the simulations!†
Chpt 20
- On the last day of simulations, they found his body in the chasm.†
Chpt 20
- We are near the chasm—we must be above it, given the volume of the sound.†
Chpt 21
- If we are above the chasm, I know what they intend to do to me.†
Chpt 21
- It is the metal railing, the one that overlooks the chasm.†
Chpt 21
- His pale face is contorted and his teeth are gritted, and he holds me over the chasm as spots appear on the edges of my vision, crowding around his face, green and pink and blue.†
Chpt 21
- I hear the sound of running water again, but this time it's from a faucet and not from the chasm.†
Chpt 22
- Peter, Drew, and Al were ready to throw me into the chasm out of jealousy—what is so unbelievable about the Dauntless leaders committing murder?†
Chpt 23
- I got tossed into the chasm.†
Chpt 23
- They creak under my feet, and I look down to see the Pit and the chasm below us.†
Chpt 23
- They found him in the middle of the chasm.†
Chpt 24
- As you know, we're here because Albert, an initiate, jumped into the chasm last night.†
Chpt 24
- The mutters stop too, leaving just the rush of water in the chasm.†
Chpt 24
- Everyone who now sees hurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option.†
Chpt 24
- I STAND WITH Will and Christina at the railing overlooking the chasm, late at night after most of the Dauntless have gone to sleep.†
Chpt 25
- I look down into the chasm, at the black water, at the jagged rocks.†
Chpt 25
- Throwing them into the chasm won't get rid of them forever, but it might make me feel better.†
Chpt 25
- But I don't want to argue again, so I just nod and throw the remaining sheets into the chasm.†
Chpt 25
- They will be filtered out at the chasm wall and discarded.†
Chpt 25
- I turn away from the chasm and see movement on the right side of the Pit.†
Chpt 25
- We walk along the edge of the Pit on a narrow path that leads to the rocks at the bottom of the chasm.†
Chpt 26
- We reach the end of the path and stand at the bottom of the chasm, where the rocks form unsteady ground, rising up at harsh angles from the rushing water.†
Chpt 26
- The roar of the chasm ensures that we won't be overheard.†
Chpt 26
- For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us.†
Chpt 26
- I stand next to the chasm.†
Chpt 27
- I imagine my feet dangling over the chasm and bite my lip.
Chpt 28 *chasm = a deep drop-off into which someone could fall
- Drew, who tried to run away while Peter held me by the throat over the chasm, and Molly, who fed the Erudite lies about my father, are factionless.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(chasm) a large and deep and steep-sided opening on the earth's surface; or (more rarely) any large gap
or:
a very large difference -- often of opinion