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
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
That pause followed while the driver in George's brain stood gapingly inactive; and then came laughter to him like a draught of champagne.
From Once Aboard the Lugger by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
