Example Sentences

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It now looks more newly fallen — though the seam between the set piece and the stage floor was gapingly obvious from the orchestra level on Saturday evening.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2023

It was the efficiency that left the shooters often gapingly open to take them.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2018

In a Managua supermarket, many of its shelves gapingly empty, a shopper complains that he has been unable to find powdered milk for 15 days.

From Time Magazine Archive

What is exasperating about all this is that the novel so gapingly succumbs to the pompous middle-class standards of its own characters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Had Jenny been there, to fling her gage into the field, Alf might gapingly have followed her, lost again in admiration of her more sparkling tongue and equipments.

From Nocturne by Swinnerton, Frank