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Gape meaning
To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise. | To stare in wonder. | To open wide; to display a gap.
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Example sentences (15)
My sweet spot is about 10 miles, perhaps to Aquinnah to gape at the beauty.
The 28-year-old left-back was one of five players released by at the end of last season, alongside Peter Abimbola, Dominic Gape, Danny Hylton and Liam Moore.
The draw string is a nice touch as it gathers the jacket in so it does not gape around the back.
Their skin is so soft and super-stretchy that it accounts for more than half the circumference of their gape, allowing the pythons to consume prey six times bigger than that of other similar-sized snake species.
However, the model had not tied it up and allowed it to gape open.
Ahead, read some of her standout quotes from 's feature and gape at the stunning photos from her shoot!
In one, in 1968, a group of 60 hippies chose to turn the tables on tourists streaming into the East Village to gape at its scruffy, longhaired denizens.
Seeing us gape, she yawned, clearly bored with the attention.
DC Brian Gape, who led the investigation, said: “It took tremendous bravery for this girl to come forward after over five years to tell us what had happened to her when she was seven-years-old.
In the exhibit, I stared at one of Soutine’s dead and gape-mouthed fish and parsed the levels of my early-morning disgust.
Some less adventurous Californians ventured out onto local beaches to gape at the majestic yet life-threatening spectacle of the frothing breakers, leading the National Weather Service Bay Area to remind people to never turn their backs on the ocean.
Whether you're house hunting or not, sometimes it can be entertaining to gape at an upmarket listing to see what life could be like if money wasn't a concern.
In the lower jaws, the bones of the front and back halves loosely articulated, permitting the jaws to bow outward and increasing the animal's gape.
Lunge feeding is an extreme feeding method, where the whale accelerates from below the bait ball to a high velocity and then opens its mouth to a large gape angle.
The strong bill is short and the gape wide, particularly in the fruit eating quetzals, with a slight hook at the end.