How To Use Gaping In A Sentence

The watch on deck soon came to the conclusion that "sailoring" was not particularly funny at night, for there was a good deal of gaping, and not a little impatience for the eight bells that would relieve them for Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway
The shed was a dark, gaping hole atop the watchtower, a screaming mouth. MINUTES TO BURN
Some species with large mouths and small bills, such as nighthawks, whip-poor wills, and the aptly named frogmouth owls, open their bills wide as they fly into insects, and the prey is captured in the birds’ gaping maws.
The stores that faced out into the streets did so with wide, gaping maws created by the shattered state of their glass windows.
The opening is not such a problem, it's the vast forbidding swoop of the gaping door itself. Times, Sunday Times

He talked about landslides in previous monsoons that had opened gaping chasms in the cliff behind the village.
If you're really lucky a Central Line train will already be standing there waiting with its doors gaping open.
If I hadn't, the two of us would've just stood there gaping at each other until Zachary finally realized what a dweeb I was being and ran away in horror.
All the floorboards, bannisters and doors were missing, the electricity, gas and water pipes were all gone, the ceilings had collapsed and there were two gaping holes in the roof. Life in a Victorian terrace
I didn't witness the circle of darkness, growing from the antisolar point like the mouth of a coal-black cosmic worm, gaping to swallow the world. Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Quarantine 1 - Greg Egan
When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken me over, and I felt an urge to pump my fist in the air.
The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice". Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
These neatly landscaped grounds will be largely empty of people, who will usually enter and leave the towers by car from the gaping maw of a parkade off the Ring Road.
His superficial charm masks a gaping hole where his soul should be. Times, Sunday Times
The opening is not such a problem, it's the vast forbidding swoop of the gaping door itself. Times, Sunday Times
Cannot you recall many a wry face; cannot you remember how unpleasant the after sensations when stern, but kind mothers forced a nauseous decoction called "senna" down your widely-gaping throat? In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
By the end, players will find themselves skirting around gaping chasms and outracing avalanches while being battered senseless by Mother Nature's best.
A huge concourse of students, all but gaping with reverence, filled two rooms.
Don't try to compensate for a gaping shoe by tying the laces too tightly.
He headed way over with the goal gaping, had a goal disallowed for offside and had a good penalty appeal waved away. The Sun
And here he blazed over from ten yards with the goal gaping. The Sun
Vertical pitches descend 250 feet to an immense cavern, second in dimensions only to the chamber in Gaping Gill.
Then turn an angle of the rock and advance a few paces, when your lights flash upon the gaping oyster-shell.
The residents echoed that there were gaping potholes on the roads.
In the case of gapeworms (often caught from pheasants) the birds will be seen gaping after exertion and attempting to cough up the worms which are anchored in the windpipe.
Her death has left a big gaping hole in my family's lives. The Sun
Passing through plumes of evil-smelling sulphurous smoke and steam, they finally encountered daylight, and emerged from the gaping maw of a volcanic cone.
He chafed a begrimed hand across a similarly soiled mouth, maw gaping wide in a grin, to reveal ebony teeth with fallow flashes of gold.
Except for the gaping hole in the street and the crumpled bonnet of the motorcar, the entire incident might have been a horrible dream. LORD OF THE SILENT
Her graceful neck rises higher than the trees, like a giraffe in slow motion, her liquid eyes staring curiously, then dismissively, at the gaping humans; she returns to her grazing as if these late-model mammals were no more worthy of note than their scruffy shrewlike ancestors, with whom she shared the Earth 130 million years ago. Here Come The Dnasaurs
Her laugh purred gently, her throat bobbing back and forth to expel the light sounds from her gaping mouth, her head tilted back and up. Pectoralis Minor
But the gaping holes in the U.S. stance are being largely papered over in news coverage.
The amusement of the onlookers changed to gaping wonder when they saw him deliberately bore a hole in the bottom of the boat near the bow, after which, fixing up some kind of derrick, he tipped the boat so that the water she had taken in at the stern ran out in front, and she floated safely over the dam. The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
A gaping whole in the education of modern man has been this story.
When she opened the cupboard, Alvin saw the inch-high Tyrannosaurus erect and gaping pinkly among the mugs.
Just two weeks ago the bridge was temporarily closed while city officials repaired a gaping hole in its deteriorating surface.
The summit must close the gaping holes that allow terrorists and international criminals to finance violence and launder their ill-gotten profits.
On the center front of a garment, horizontal buttonholes are the most secure and help prevent the opening from gaping.
When she opened her eyes, a large, gaping maw of a cave awaited them.
He was gaping at Joanna as if she were an apparition, one to be warded off with incantations and henbane. HERE BE DRAGONS
indeed, in its orotund grandiosity, its declamatory incoherence, its choliambic grandeur, and its unedited seediness, it threatens to leave me fixed here in speechlessness, gaping. Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
Can a sound future be built for a state, or a country, on the unhealed gaping wounds of thousands of its citizens?
He headed way over with the goal gaping, had a goal disallowed for offside and had a good penalty appeal waved away. The Sun
It could scarce be called a housewarming; for there was, of course, no fire, and with the two open doors and the open window gaping on the night, like breaches in a fortress, it began to grow rapidly chill. The Silverado Squatters
Pumping turn after exuberant turn, I drop to the south side of the mountain until I'm looking straight down into the gaping bergschrund.
The sergeant's jaw dropped and it looked as if he was trying to strike Manny dead with a lightning bolt from his gaping mouth.
Gwen felt as though half of her soul had been ripped away from her, leaving nothing but a gaping void.
Riddled with a thousand gaping wounds , this reactionary clique is now beset with difficulties and contradictions both in internal and external affairs.
The longing and the appetite at work in the body, all tickling to open a girl's mane, gaping, health-giving crossroads to the body. A girl's mane
Tank tracks had torn up the pavement and there were gaping holes in several houses.
She said she would do her best to bind the wounds of the association, which have been left gaping by the 40-plus members who signed the petition calling for her deselection.
Breaking down under the strain, Lucy experiences a vision of "ghastly, white beds" which become "specters" with "wide gaping eyeholes" (198). Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_
He would sit in the centre of the grass, gaping and gawping, while the parent birds rushed back and forth to find nourishing grubs and suitable insects to stuff down his throat.
I had reached this church by an old archway, whose origin was evidently defensive, and crossing the dim and silent square, surrounded by mediaeval houses, some half ruinous, and all more or less adorned with pellitory, ivy-linaria, and other wall-plants which had fixed their roots between the gaping stones. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
As was the case for the last fourteen years, I was sitting at my desk, working, while the crowd at the showgrounds enjoyed their pap and braaivleis, gaping at the fireworks display.
Despite gaping holes in the Indian economy and the discrepancy between rich and poor, pride in the country and its growing economic clout is high. Times, Sunday Times
In the kayak, he is up to his waist in gravel and dirt, for a gaping hole has been ripped in the bottom.
By now, with the help of various counselors, I'd navel-gazed a giant gaping hole in my bellybutton, dissecting my own personal history the way a Proust scholar had Remembrance of Things Past.
There was a gaping hole in my leg and foot. Times, Sunday Times
They stood gaping at the pig in the kitchen.
And here he blazed over from ten yards with the goal gaping. The Sun
Bush and the moneyed interests for whom he is fronting are inflicting gaping, cankerous wounds upon humanity and the Earth. Shouting at the Devil:
The roofs have collapsed, the ruined towers, the high gate unbarred, frost in the mortar, the ramparts gaping, rent, fallen, gnawed through by age.
This genetic difference is too gaping for one type of membrane biochemistry to have evolved from the other, Koga argues.
I was on the edge of my seat, listening and watching with gaping mouth as Kennedy was playing, stamping his feet, waving his bow, sweat pouring down the back of his bright orange t-shirt.
There is now a gaping void between popular understanding of imperialism and knowledge of empires, including our own. Times, Sunday Times
Pressure points ... To close gaping wounds, use needle and thread.
Thick tarps, stretched gunwale to gunwale, deck three-quarters of the Brendan, but where the helmsman must stand there is a gaping hole.
As if it were magnetized, Robert felt his head turn toward the gaping window of his office.
The road into Nablus circuits the gaping carcasses of buildings that, I am told, have been destroyed by tanks; the road itself is cracked by the passage of heavily armoured tanks.
And now … without further delay … the winning definition of "saddleback" … by a gaping margin … definition number 5. News on Anchorage Press
Yet on they pressed, anxious to secure what they could to fill gaping holes within their ranks. Times, Sunday Times
He was left with a gaping head wound. The Sun
She gasped, her skin paled as she covered her gaping mouth and she backed away.
All of them, including people, are carved in the same beautiful but grotesque style, with beaks, staring eyes, outspread wings and gaping jaws.
OTAY so i sweeps the oooshy grey goop into a pan wipe the dirt of wiff my sleeve plop the mess inta the cavernous gaping skull crater whang the parts ob skull into place Dats one small step fur me and… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The rooftop car park where a bouncy castle once stood is a gaping, empty hole. Times, Sunday Times
Their departure will leave a gaping hole in Grand Prix racing.
The lice are parasites and are sucking off essential fluids, while leaving a gaping wound prone to infection.
And other be in Ethiopia, and each of them have only one foot so great and so large, that they beshadow themselves with the foot when they lie gaping on the ground in strong heat of the sun; and yet they be so swift, that they be likened to hounds in swiftness of running, and therefore among the Greeks they be called Cynopodes. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
Everyone gasped as they caught their first glimpse of the gaping hole in the tower and the billowing smoke.
The entry place, a black, gaping mouth, reminded him of a burned-out bakery on the strcet where he had lived in Belfast. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
It was carved in the shape of an open mouth, thick red lips stretched in a silent scream, white teeth showing beneath and a black gaping hole.
GOWKED, from "gowk," to stand staring and gaping like a fool. Every Man in His Humor
Under ledges are scarlet squirrelfish, lobsters and groupers gaping for candy-striped cleaner gobies. Times, Sunday Times
To think, they had stumbled on Solstice completely by chance last night, and that chance had gifted her the data with which she could fill in some gaping blanks and maybe - just maybe - develop the elixir of life as well.
All too often, photographs, documents and stories are misplaced or lost and the memories of families or cultures are left with gaping holes.
In the gaping maw of publishing, the independents tend to be modest about their work.
The empty cash box lay gaping open in one corner.
She requested Oak to get the churchwardens to turn the leadwork at the mouth of the gurgoyle that hung gaping down upon them, that by this means the stream might be directed sideways, and a repetition of the accident prevented. Far from the Madding Crowd
She was discovered with a gaping wound to her head. Times, Sunday Times
Except for the gaping hole in the street and the crumpled bonnet of the motorcar, the entire incident might have been a horrible dream. LORD OF THE SILENT
They wrapped the gaping hole for two days to prevent infection. The Sun
There are two gaping holes in the chain 's armour. Times, Sunday Times
The sway of earth _shook_ like a thing unfirm," thousands of houses crumbled to their base, tens of thousands of human beings were buried beneath ruins, or engulfed by the gaping ground. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
We drew prancing starfishes; frogs in mortal combat; hydra-headed worms; stately crawfishes, standing on their tails, bearing aloft umbrellas; and grotesque fishes with gaping mouths and staring eyes. Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction
Just go back to doing the only thing you are capable of, which is sitting around in gaping, slack-jawed stupefaction swallowing wholesale any and every idiotic lie that is spoon-fed to you by the paid professional liars at Faux Noise and Whirled Nuts Dully. Think Progress » Palin blames ‘Gore-gate’ for ‘this snake oil science stuff.’
Like too many of this government's initiatives, as soon as you start to examine the details gaping holes emerge.
The aircraft took off with a gaping hole in its fuselage.
So too was the gaping gulf in class. Times, Sunday Times
Gaping wounds are a result of being stabbed across lines perpendicular to the fibers.
She gasped as he hit the tender parts and moaned as he dabbed it with something that stung at her wound like alcohol was being poured over the gaping flesh.
Twice the big Englishman was presented with a gaping goal and the perfect ball but twice he somehow contrived to miss the target.
He headed way over with the goal gaping, had a goal disallowed for offside and had a good penalty appeal waved away. The Sun
Belarus devalued its ruble by 36% in May after a pre-election spending spree by Mr. Lukashenko caused a gaping deficit in the country's current account and drained its reserves. Belarus to Allow Ruble to Float
There are two gaping holes in the chain 's armour. Times, Sunday Times
He said it was possible that weapons used in the prison break could have been introduced to the property through the gaping fence.
We need not only to discover what went wrong with the police - and why - but also how the CPS failed to spot the gaping holes in the evidence.
The goal was gaping but somehow he contrived to clip the chance wide. The Sun
And it starts pecking and the mother then regurgitates half digested food into the gaping mouth of the chick, the chick swallows it and it's happy.
Ragnor leaned against the wall and slowly turned to face them, his mouth gaping in surprise. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
After years of exaggerating the snow-vocabulary of arctic peoples, suddenly journalists everywhere are obsessed with the allegedly gaping holes in northland lexicons.
The World Cup is gaping wide open. Times, Sunday Times
He examines himself, he has no scars, his clothes aren't torn, his chest has no gaping hole
As the tides push and suck at the shores, glaciers gnaw at mountains and rivers scour gaping canyons out of gullies, one sees plain evidence of the earth's state of continual transition.
If she's just a giant, gaping asshole, why hasn't she literally swallowed up the universe like a big black asshole* by now? Starpulse Entertainment News
Blood gushed forth from the gaping wound.
Power sluiced past his gaping jaws and coursed over his hackles. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
Justin sat silhouetted against the river bank, gaping at a bunch of Naga sadhus smoking chillum.
They turned into gaping holes in the final period when three Belfast goals in as many minutes ended the contest.
Euan Semple, all-round capital fellow and big-time blogger at the BBC, got his gapingvoid t-shirt.
Despite gaping holes in the Indian economy and the discrepancy between rich and poor, pride in the country and its growing economic clout is high. Times, Sunday Times
In Ingleborough itself there is Gaping Gill Hole, a vast fissure nearly Yorkshire
Twenty unclimbed mountains, gaping crevasses, blizzards and temperatures plunging to 25 degrees below zero were just some of the challenges overcome by a Navy expedition to Greenland.
The whole scene is so primeval that we would stand gaping all afternoon if the westering arc of the sun didn't jog us on our way.
She was discovered with a gaping wound to her head. Times, Sunday Times
The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
There is now a gaping void between popular understanding of imperialism and knowledge of empires, including our own. Times, Sunday Times
At the farthest end was a wood partition with a door, and on it was drawn, in charcoal or some other ashy stuff, the outline of a great black bird, its wings spread, its beak gaping open.
While he stood around gaping, Teddy fired his last dart and hit his final target square on.
This is simply a sticking plaster over a gaping wound. Times, Sunday Times
His retirement will leave a gaping hole in the Ireland pack. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of a fair white bed with Austin lying in it, she was confronted by the sight of a gaping hole in the roof, something that looked like a rubbish heap in a brickfield immediately underneath, and the long slender form of Austin himself wrapped in a comfortable wadded dressing-gown fast asleep upon the sofa. Austin and His Friends
YOU aren't fit to clean out her horse barn in bare feet with gaping sores on them from siphylus that's migrated there because the little buggers can't stand being in your HEAD with all that execrable, pustulent CRAP swirling there. Hillary Invokes RFK Assassination While Describing Why She's Staying In Race
Ahead of them was a gaping abyss.
United should have scored deep into stoppage time but player-manager John Taylor somehow managed to head wide from less than a yard and with the goal gaping.
The more we look, the more we become aware of the gaping disjunction between the two panels, between the representational conditions of writing and those of photography, between the artist's camera and exile's eye.
Considering that posture is a major problem at the computer and that many of us spend entire days with our head leaning forward gaping at computer monitors, re-learning how to hold our heads to avoid back pain is potentially beneficial for many of us. The Alexander Technique Provides Short-Term Relief From Back Pain | Lifehacker Australia
Conner rose and stretched, his lupine muzzle gaping wide in a colossal yawn, the muscles rippling across his broad back.
They made their way into the now gaping hole in the wall and looked around.
The gaping round mouth of the gun, centred squarely on his left eye. Finger tightening on trigger.
There was a gaping hole in my leg and foot. Times, Sunday Times
He was not the type to wander round gaping at everything like a tourist.
The rooftop car park where a bouncy castle once stood is a gaping, empty hole. Times, Sunday Times
The goal was gaping but somehow he contrived to clip the chance wide. The Sun
There is now a gaping void between popular understanding of imperialism and knowledge of empires, including our own. Times, Sunday Times
Rock journalists have long been questing after the next visionary songwriter capable of treading in Dylan's gaping, mythical footprints, but so far those who draw comparison only crumble under the weight of his legend.
After a scenic tour down to Zermatt, past towering seracs and gaping crevasses, we got another helicopter ride up to the ridge.
He took great delight there to go to the bookbinders ' shops and lie gaping on maps.
They simply bridge the gaping holes left by four years of seat-of-the-pants plotting that suddenly have to be tied up with a neat bow as if they were intended from the start. MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica
Scrub the mussels and clams, discarding any whose shells are gaping open or seem lifeless when you squeeze them.
Point the First: Probably not as sanitary in gaping burn holes as the buckets of sterile saline they would be carrying in the bus. Complaining about TV, yet again.
And the gaping, long-toothed jaws of an immense barracouta closed upon the head of the Inkmaker, biting him clean in halves. Children of the Wild
Radio 2 losing the two best presenters will leave a gaping hole in their schedule. The Sun
The only gaping flaw in McConnell's Machiavellianism is the hard cold fact that Congress would have to vote on this scheme in the first place. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Obama 2.0?
The Scouser was left laughing at his own miss in the second half with the goal gaping. The Sun
Then the young man crumpled to the ground, with his eyes opened in shock, and his mouth gaping.
But, you can still pick out a sexy patch to cover up the gaping hole in your head, which thank goodness was discovered after we dilated your eyes!
By finding out what the facts are, rather than spending all of our time sitting around in gaping, slack-jawed stupefaction, swallowing wholesale whatever infantle lie is shovelled down our gullet by the paid professional liars at Faux Noise and Whirled Nuts Dully, and swallowing said lies without even a first much less a second thought. Think Progress » Hannity: Snow Storms ‘Seem To Contradict Al Gore’s Hysterical Global Warming Theories’
The fact that Renee would wear skimpy, lacy underwear clearly visible underneath her oversized, gaping overalls should have indicated to my brother and me that a personal partnership was also forming, but when Mel left me and Renee suddenly sabotaged her marriage to my brother to be with Mel, Brother and I were left idiotically scratching our heads in disbelief. Portia de Rossi: My Ex-Husband Stole My Brother's Wife
Yet on they pressed, anxious to secure what they could to fill gaping holes within their ranks. Times, Sunday Times
The coastline resembles the gaping, dislocated jaws of some fossilised dinosaur that once roamed here, but time has rendered it harmless and tides have scattered its teeth to form countless islands.
I stayed in the one house left standing, a guest house in a ghost town of cracked jambs and gaping doorways.
The only inconsistency is the glaring, gaping one between his actions and his campaign rhetoric. So much for those ‘Free Tibet’ bumper stickers. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
Yet we continue to seek and affirm the message that offers a short-term bandage for our gaping spiritual wounds, all the while knowing at a deep level that what we're hearing is, at best, not the whole truth, and at worst, a brazen lie. Christian Piatt: When Preachers Become False Prophets
She needed 20 stitches to her gaping wounds - terrifyingly near her left eye and jugular vein. The Sun
Their indignation is revealing, for it exposes a gaping hole in their original argument.
Their departure will leave a gaping hole in Grand Prix racing.
The gaping hole in the ship meant that much of the air was completely unbreathable so both men wore their helmets set to recycled air.
With a dustsheet draped over him I could almost pretend he wasnt there, looking out at me with his dull glassy eyes, wound gaping beneath his patch. The House at Riverton
Radio 2 losing the two best presenters will leave a gaping hole in their schedule. The Sun
Slowly, its lower jaw dropped until its mouth was an impossible maw, a gaping hole that defied definition.
Homes damaged by the ferocious January gale in which five members of the same family were killed on the island of South Uist are still being repaired and walls protecting roads and causeways from the sea have gaping holes in them.
The brothers promptly swiped the exclusive license from the gaping maws of nearly a dozen major competitors.
He would sit in the centre of the grass, gaping and gawping, while the parent birds rushed back and forth to find nourishing grubs and suitable insects to stuff down his throat.
The central defining social fact of our world is gaping global inequality.
Ek het die Bybel en die stemmery bymekaar gebring - tussen daar's 'n gaping. The myth of coloured marginalisation
They are likewise bloody; for their throat is an open sepulchre, cruel as the grave, gaping to devour and to swallow up, insatiable as the grave, which never says, It is enough, Prov. xxx. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The frontal view is terrifying and mask-like, with wild staring eyes, a gaping mouth and savage teeth.
The dentistry clinic down the road has a gaping hole where its roof should be. Times, Sunday Times
He had a gaping hole in his abdomen where bone had torn his flesh away.
Their halting conversations and touchingly described moments of connection turn into all-out confessionals and then – perplexingly for the narrator – gaping disconnection. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke
Still ahead, a gaping hole opened up in a passenger plane during an Alaska Airlines flight 26,000 feet in the air.
Like too many of this government's initiatives, as soon as you start to examine the details gaping holes emerge.
Again he swung up his chair and dashed it at the window, and yet again, until no window remained, but a great, gaping opening with a fringe of ragged glass and twisted leadwork. Saint Martin's Summer
In that the mental, conceptual and technical voids were even more gaping and glaring than the physical ones in bombed-out cities.
The hook caught deeply in its great gaping mouth. The Gods of Asgard
With the goal gaping, the forward put his shot wide from a tight angle. Times, Sunday Times
A broad smile dribbled down from the bottom of his gaping lips.
Behind me, the door had burst open, and another tall and handsome elfin boy, of about the same age was standing in the doorway, gaping at me.
Most of the planks had gaping holes in them or were completely gone, but the two main beams running from bank to bank looked sturdy enough to walk on.
In one case the carpel was closed above, gaping below, where it gave origin to several leaflets, the lower ones oval, dentate, like ordinary leaflets, the upper ones merely lanceolate, leafy lobes, representing the primine reduced to a foliaceous condition. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Gaping holes puncture the walls, leaving glimpses of lifeless interiors through jagged brickwork and shattered windows.
At a loss for words, the boy could only stare, gaping at his pendant that now lay suspended in the air before his very eyes.
The store was lavish enough; if anything, he should have been gaping at the hundreds of bolts of colored calico and wool fabrics and the large barrel full of brightly-wrapped candy.
They stood gaping at the pig in the kitchen.
[V, 1], the word gaper-block (or gapers 'block) -- a traffic jam caused by drivers gaping at an accident -- has been used by policemen reporting on Chicago traffic conditions for at least five years. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2
He proposed instead complex plans to end the city's gaping budget deficit, by, among other proposals, creating a new market for trading bonds of the city's small and middle-sized high-tech companies.
Spinning the young boy lunged at the mast pole, stifling a cry as he felt his feet lose footing as he was dangling over the dark gaping ocean.
He was gaping at Joanna as if she were an apparition, one to be warded off with incantations and henbane. HERE BE DRAGONS

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