GAPE in a Sentence
Learn GAPE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
49 example sentences for GAPE, such as:
1. The people round began to gape.
2. They stood gaping at the pig in the kitchen.
3. She resented his gaping at their private rites.
4. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play.
5. Don't stand gaping, Lucy, or the wind'll change.
2. They stood gaping at the pig in the kitchen.
3. She resented his gaping at their private rites.
4. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play.
5. Don't stand gaping, Lucy, or the wind'll change.
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Meanings and Examples of GAPE
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gape
v. open the mouth wide; yawn from sleepiness, weariness, or dullness
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1 They can sit at their ease and gape at the play.
2 The people round began to gape.
3 The hair would lose its brightness, the mouth would gape or droop, would be foolish or gross, as the mouths of old men are.
4 She admitted that she was taking herself too seriously; that villagers gape at every one.
5 Probably the mother during an important interval was sailing down the Peruvian coast, when earthquakes caused the beach to gape.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
6 On hearing this speech, the State Councillor could only gape, for he had not expected Tientietnikov's torrent of words.
7 She could have ground her heel into the gaping wound which had been his nose and taken sweet pleasure in the feel of his warm blood on her bare feet.
8 There were the remains of a few buildings she remembered, roofless brick walls through which the dull daylight shone, glassless windows gaping, chimneys towering lonesomely.
9 But then, he had taken the whole affair with maddening calm, ever since Sam had carried her sobbing into the house, her basque gaping to the waist.
10 She resented his gaping at their private rites.
11 In the next block Mrs. Dr. Westlake was gaping from her porch.
12 Carol tried to stare them down but in face of the impishness of the boys and the bovine gaping of the men, she was embarrassed.
13 The tattered man looked at him in gaping amazement.
14 He saw his gaping audience picturing him as the central figure in blazing scenes.
15 Don't stand gaping, Lucy, or the wind'll change.
Example Sentence:
1 We saw the huge pit gape before him; if he stumbled, he would fall in.
2 The traffic in counterfeit medicines in developing countries is a worldwide gaping wound.
3 They stood gaping at the pig in the kitchen.