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[ US /ˈɡeɪp/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈe‍ɪp/ ]
VERB
  1. look with amazement; look stupidly
  2. be wide open
    the deep gaping canyon
NOUN
  1. an expression of openmouthed astonishment
  2. a stare of amazement (usually with the mouth open)

How To Use gape In A Sentence

  • We start a three-way makeout as the entire crowd gapes at us, in shock. Get Laid or Die Trying
  • In his million-acred temple, he stood -- cold, white and useless -- leaning upon his broken staff; while timorous leadership gaped at his still majesty -- Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
  • I gaped unguardedly at the wad of bills in his hands.
  • Vicki opened the door excitedly and gaped at everything.
  • When I say the word biologic to someone like Josephine, her eyes cross a little, and her mouth gapes, and I can hear her little brain rattling around in her skull like a smooth marble. Deadly
  • She gapes at us and her mouth works but no sound issues forth.
  • She pointed an accusing finger at the man, who gaped beerily. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel
  • His shirt gapes open with a button missing.
  • Meggie gaped at the tiny thing roaming blindly round Fee's bare skin in search of more hirsute territory, then she began to weep. THE THORN BIRDS
  • Christians are urged to practice agape: love not as sexual desire, not as a devotion to something transcendent, not as friendship, but as charity.
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