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• The spectators gaped helplessly as the balloon approached the power lines.From the entry helplessly
• The gapes is contagious: when one person gets the gapes, pretty soon you've got a roomful of gapers.From the entry gapes
• The gapes has gotten to many of the birds.From the entry gapes
• “Did you feel that?” Allies asks, before whipping around to gape at Effie and me.2020 June 2, Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water: A Novel, volume 1, Tor Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry legiteral
• We gape as flaming liquid hits the dessert and encases it in flames.2006 July, “Ice Cream: Some Great Stops, from Parlors to Gelaterias”, in Rebecca Burns, editor, Atlanta, volume 46, number 3, Atlanta…. From the entry alaska
• Her head, wrenched back, was baring its teeth in a rictal gape.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 44, in Small Island, London: Review, page 413. From the entry rictal
• The thought that he might actually get bigger was enough to make most people gape in amazement.2004, James A. Moore, Possessions, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated, →ISBN. From the entry curb stomp
• My eyes gaped at the same aisles I had strolled through as a child.1997, David J. Pelzer, The lost boy: a foster child's search for the love of a family. From the entry skip a beat
• A few of them suddenly realized who put that gorgeous hunk of crackers together, and gaped.1984, Bruce Brooks, The Moves Make the Man. From the entry rather
• Podson, yawning and frowsing out of his blanket, gaped at this ultimatum in the dawn.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 88. From the entry frowse
• The village children gaped saucer-eyed at the newcomers.2009, Philip Reeve, No Such Thing As Dragons, Scholastic, published 2010, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry saucer-eyed
• The nostrils did not gape at you.1954, Ian Fleming, “Mister Big”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 64. From the entry everted
• THE duck face selfie is passe and the fish gape pose so yesterday — now it's all about the twofie, threefie, wefie or usie.2017 November 4, “Forget the selfie, it's now all about the wefie: Here’s what it says about society’s changing attitudes”, in The…. From the entry twofie
• The thin boys with their brush cuts and spotty faces, their dinner jackets and burgundy cummerbunds with matching bow ties, would gape at us.2005 June 13, Edmund White, “My Women: Learning How to Love Them”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 10 May 2016. From the entry cummerbund
• In the lingo of the traffic reporters, "gapers' block" is a tie-up caused by motorists slowing down to gape at an accident.1967 March 10, “Above It All”, in Time. From the entry gapers' block
• When the door finally, splinteringly gave way, he stumbled clear across the room beyond, fetched up against an instrument console, recovered his balance, and gaped.1963, Poul Anderson, Industrial Revolution. From the entry splinteringly
• He stretched forth his two arms towards it, crying: “Open, Sesame!” and at once the face of the rock gaped to let him pass.1929, E[dward] Powys Mathers, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: […], volume VII, London: […] [F]or subscribers by…. From the entry open, sesame
• With his right hand, he held the 12-inch bang stick straight out, arm fully extended as the sharks jaws gaped wide to display its full arsenal of frightening weaponry.2008, Michael J. Ganas, The Girl Who Rode Dolphins, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry bang stick
• Munpa had visited Hsi-ning before, and now again he felt lost in its crowded streets, and gaped at the impossible variety of articles displayed in the stores.1982, Alexandra David-Neel, Aphur Yongden, translated by Janwillem van de Wetering, The Power of Nothingness, Houghton Mifflin Company…. From the entry Hsi-ning
• The five Father Christmases walked slowly on, oblivious alike of the children who gaped at them and the man-hunt that was taking place under their noses.1939, Nicholas Blake [pseudonym; Cecil Day-Lewis], The Smiler with the Knife, Harper & Row, page 199. From the entry Father Christmas

Meaning of gape

1. verb To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
2. verb To stare in wonder.
3. verb To open wide; to display a gap.

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Questions about gape in a sentence

How do you use gape in a sentence?

Gape is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The wound was gaping open and losing too much blood.”

What is a short sentence with gape?

“Eustace gaped at him in amazement.”

What does gape mean?

Gape means to open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.