[
US
/ˈɡeɪp/
]
[ UK /ɡˈeɪp/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈeɪp/ ]
VERB
- look with amazement; look stupidly
-
be wide open
the deep gaping canyon
NOUN
- an expression of openmouthed astonishment
- 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.