I stood at the edge of the cliff and gazed down into the yawning/gaping 'abyss'. [='chasm']
He says that there is a widening 'abyss' between the rich and the poor.
She was pulled down into an 'abyss' of despair.
(..) It makes me just wanna pick up whoever... ...and throw them through this window... ...and out into the infinite abyss of nothingness! I know you do, sir. Please don't. And it's not just you, Bad Cop, that keeps messing up my plans. People everywhere are always (..)2014 The Lego Movie