gap
noun
a break or opening, as in a fence, wall, or military line; breach.
gappy
-
a word derived from
gap.
Example Sentences
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Many modern xylems have intricate cross sections that look like gappy rings, crosses, diamonds or hearts, with dead space called pith separating bundles of xylem tissue.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 27, 2023
But the fossils offer “limited, rather gappy lines of evidence” of possible migrations, said Andrea Manica, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Cambridge and an author on the new paper.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
Heller’s visual realization of the film, which is inattentive to bodies and gazes, and which sticks to a puppet-like enactment of the drama, matches her gappy, generalized script.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 7, 2015
It features mocked-up pictures of gappy, unaligned teeth belonging, among others, to Buckingham Palace guards, the Prince of Wales and Sherlock Holmes.
From BBC ● May 26, 2015
He had lost teeth again, and I tried to lock his mischievous, gappy smile into my memory as he ran off.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
