gape
verb (used without object)
to stare with open mouth, as in wonder.
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
After 2,400 years, the human truths presented in this drama by Euripides are as gapingly fresh as open wounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both are indeed frameworks, carefully and even ingeniously latticed in places, gapingly unfinished in others.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slowly and gapingly the audience arises, strolls sleepily out of the door, and entering wrong stages, is carried to all manner of wrong destinations.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 by Various
