gape in English

noun
1
a wide opening or breach.
a gape of the jaws
verb
1
stare with one's mouth open wide, typically in amazement or wonder.
they gaped at her as if she were an alien
synonyms:starestare open-mouthedstare in wondergogglegazeoglerubberneckgawk

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "gape" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "gape", or refer to the context using the word "gape" in the English Dictionary.

1. 8 Dont gape: its rude!

2. His secretary stopped taking notes to gape at me.

3. 2 You were expected to gape at the draftsmanship.

4. Lyle, wearing a plaid shirt, stared gape-mouthed at Conn.

5. 1 His secretary stopped taking notes to gape at me.

6. 12 He looks down at the gape void at his feet.

7. If a Coydog is angry or threatened, it will gape instead of snarling

8. 10 He that gapes till he be fed will gape till he be dead.

9. 7 The cuckoo's cavernous red gape may be irresistible to the overworked foster parents.

10. 16 I don't know why we're standing here for all these fools to gape at.

11. Imagine the hush falling over the party as the guests turned to gape at it.

12. Then the cross was raised that all might see and gape and curse and deride.

13. 4 Pristina remains broken: there are power cuts, buildings gape open, and rubbish is uncollected.

14. 6 People stopped to gape as she walked down the street in a see-through mini-dress.

15. 21 He must be a very strange - looking camel driver for people to gape like that.

16. 11 They gape at me and say, " Aha ! Aha ! With our own eyes we have seen it. "

17. 5 A nestling's gape, or wide open beak, provides a stimulus to the parents to feed it.

18. As for Salt and the rest of them, they'd goggle and gape and point at their foreheads.

19. The Bearded Bellbird is a fruit-eater with a wide mouth (gape) that enables it to swallow large berries

20. 20 On the higher fishes the maxillary is excluded from the gape , and the premaxillary bears the teeth.

21. 18 As for Salt and the rest of them, they'd goggle and gape and point at their foreheads.

22. But when evening comes I get dressed and I go to the opera, where they let me in na gape.

23. In addition, Smilodon's gape could have reached almost 120 degrees, while that of the modern lion reaches 65 degrees.

24. 14 But when evening comes I get dressed and I go to the opera, where they let me in na gape.

25. 15 In contemplating the lair of Ed and Klara Durbeck, the temptation is to gape at the sheer volume of the contents.

26. 17 I do not care much now about the way the women gape at me when I walk around in the village center.

27. In contemplating the lair of Ed and Klara Durbeck(Sentencedict.com ), the temptation is to gape at the sheer volume of the contents.

28. Like the unrelated swifts and nightjars, which hunt in a similar way, they have short bills, but strong jaws and a wide gape.

29. Now kin'n bros'n half-strangers, even the Abbess... all come knocking... to gape in wonderment, like Sonmi herself were sitting in our kitchen.

30. 3 I could only gape in astonishment as I saw the man take the bottle from the shelf and put it under his coat.

31. 13 To observe the result from the limitation of gape, the urgent skin's reaction, the cervix organizing fibrosis, xerostomia,(www.Sentencedict.com) conglutination of the nasal cavity and so on.

32. For starters, there are just so many Brands, styles, sizes, fits, and fabrics to choose from—and yet we still find ourselves stuck with ones that dig in, gape, or are

33. 19 The Su Man Man is chance excited at the gape of starting, start devoting one's minding of teach the farmland great fortune ball to pitch ball, have some evadable posture deed.

34. Becalming pole position Stellkolben regulator slabljenja zadziorny (adj.) camp digitalis jeune mariée inestimably to prewash help liquidate ibbojkottja jeu, passe-temps, sports accountant plitki iskop idealiseren revenant case oil blindness (n.) pous cilj gape

35. Backfill Whilst performing sexual intercourse, in the Doggie Style position, the non-receiving partner lubes up his/her hand and rabbit punches the receiving partner's anus. With luck, the fist will slide in, and be rapidly retracted, causing the receiving partner to gape.

36. The Latin root of Abeyance suggests one in a state of wonder or shock: baer (or baier) means "to have the mouth wide open, gape, pant." The anatomical specificity of the root, however, was not maintained in the Anglo-French words that link our word to it.

37. Chaos (n.) late 14c., "gaping void; empty, immeasurable space," from Old French Chaos (14c.) or directly from Latin Chaos, from Greek khaos "abyss, that which gapes wide open, that which is vast and empty," from *khnwos, from PIE root *ghieh-"to yawn, gape, be wide open."

38. This is opposite to what has been found in most non-raptorial altricial birds, and may have been caused by the ability of Kestrel parents to dismember large prey and thus overcome the gape size-restricted swallowing capacity of small nestlings, together with a need to provide smaller prey to older nestlings when they start to feed unassisted.