How to Use gape in a Sentence

gape

1 of 2 verb

• The crater gapes at about 13 miles wide and 2.6 miles deep.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2023
• What could the world do to fill this gaping hole in chip supply?
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• Young men with haggard faces and gaping mouths roamed the streets.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Dry river mouths gape among dunes the height of cathedrals.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
• Several of them saw a gaping hole in the back of JFK's head.
  — Jacquelynn Lueth, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
• The Grand Canyon this is not — but the cracks were sizable enough to make visitors gape.
  — Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
• Now, their white, brick, 7,000-square-foot colonial has gaping holes in the roof.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
• By 2008 it had been razed, leaving a gaping hole in the city center.
  — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
• The other struck the back of his upper right arm, pierced the shoulder joint and opened up a gaping hole on the way out.
  — Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• When to get help Get help if a wound is large, gaping, or gushing blood.
  — Stacey Colino, Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
• The letters are jammed in among gaping eyes and open mouths of sometimes skull-like heads.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• Above, the roof has caved in multiple times and light from the sky comes through a gaping hole behind the pump.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• Each death is a daub of paint on a vast canvas, but for the bereaved, each opens up a gaping chasm of grief.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Mack rolled Templer over and could see a gaping hole in his back and plugged it with Saran Wrap from a plate of snacks.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• Holmes’s bold sweater also revived the cold-shoulder trend, with two gaping holes on the top halves of the sleeves.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 June 2023
• Some buildings have gaping holes blown through the middle of them.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• With Ertz moving back to fill the gaping hole left by Sauerbrunn, the US midfield has yet to be a strength.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• If you’ve been left in a gaping void by the end of Succession, don’t despair.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
• And for spider bites, some say that the bite from a wind scorpion leaves a gaping, gangrenous hole all the way to the bone.
  — Jeremy Hillpot, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2023
• Those on board described wind blowing through a gaping hole that showed the night sky and the city lights below.
  — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• Two plays later, Green ran through a gaping hole to score for a 5-yard touchdown run.
  — al, 25 Aug. 2023
• From the driveway, a huge hole in the side of the house gaped open, showing the haphazard contents of the master bedroom.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 27 Mar. 2023
• About three-fourths of the mayor’s home slid down into gaping rent in the earth, but strangely enough, was not crushed.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2023
• Max 9, leaving a gaping hole in the left side of the aircraft and causing oxygen masks to drop from the ceiling.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• The passenger said his seatbelt saved him from being sucked out of the gaping hole.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2024
• Who, in that summer of suffering, was going to send a woman with a gaping head wound back to camp in the rough?
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
• The rule: Blazers will gape open awkwardly in the front or lie awkwardly against your body.
  — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 26 Apr. 2017
• In the second photo, the brain of a young boy is visible through a gaping hole in his skull that extends from his forehead to the top of the head.
  — Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
• Huge craters gaped on the roadside; factories lay in ruins.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• Local residents said they were shocked by the sight of the gaping hole above the bay where the bridge had stood for nearly a half-century.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024

Advertisement

gape

2 of 2 noun

• I told him to stop staring, that his rather stupid gape was annoying.
• The boat’s net courses through the water like a gape-mouthed whale shark.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Bats adjust their mouth gape to zoom their biosonar field of view.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2015
• The fish’s wide-eyed gape takes center stage, mesh tugging at its open mouth.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2020
• An enormous cast of the sharp-toothed jaw of a megalodon gapes open, wide and high enough to gobble a grown man.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 3 July 2019
• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, no one on the planet has a wider mouth gape.
  — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
• Watch their mouths gape open as their pile of goodies dwindles!
  — Fox News, 7 Oct. 2022
• Imagine one with a tie that wraps around your waist so smoothly the tiny hole the belt snakes through never gapes.
  — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 7 June 2018
• In the portrait, Hemingway scans the distance; his tie and collar gape at the neck.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021
• The researchers questioned whether there is even an upper limit to the gape of some of the very biggest pythons.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
• On Friday, customers at the Ocean Avenue Walgreens stopped to gape at a sign in the front window.
  — Rachel Swan, Danielle Echevarria, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Oct. 2021
• To deepen the illusion that life is just one big fashion spread, we've been trained to 1) smize, 2) duck face, 3) squinch, and now, 4) fish gape.
  — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2015
• Caves a thousand miles apart show the same gape-mouthed, extra-manly drawings.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
• The duck face, the fish gape, the vague arm raise – getting a likeable Inta involves a lot of really random trends.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 24 Jan. 2018
• Her mouth gape measures 6.56 centimeters, or about two and a half inches.
  — Rachel Trent, CNN, 31 July 2021
• This ivory-white bird will perch at the top of a dead tree, high in the montane forests of northern Brazil, and gape open his mouth to issue a grating, hair-raising screech.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2019
• Its fins flare, its mouth gapes and its body spasms as the metal filament proceeds along the length of its spine, destroying nerves.
  — The Economist, 4 Oct. 2019
• The boy had run out into the road to gape at a helicopter pulling security for Power’s team of VIPs.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
• The shop’s door is open to the street, attracting customers who glimpse something intriguing, step inside and stop to gape.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 13 Apr. 2021
• Lines snake around almost every tent, inside of which crowds gape at the latest iteration of the revered god.
  — Geeta Anand, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2016
• Pythons had a 4 to 6 times greater maximal gape area than similarly-sized brown tree snakes.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
• Their lower jaws can unhinge to give them a massive gape and their flexible skulls are made of bones that can move against each other.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2010
• Dolphin S brings out the fish with lips flaring in the posterior half of the gape area to show the upper tooth row and gular area expanding.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Jan. 2023
• As the happy, purposeful crowd pushes into school, the bully is left to gape and blush, alone and ostracized.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
• Picturesque anytime of year, that route is especially gape-worthy in fall, when the trees flaunt their brilliant golds and reds.
  — Jeanine Barone, WSJ, 10 June 2021
• The gape-mouthed expression of these primates has long been considered an act of yawning or stretching.
  — Josie Garthwaite, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2012
• But that vision belongs in the realm of rapturous poetry, not for us film lovers to gape in awestruck amazement at the foolishness.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• Being gape-limited is a problem for many types of animals.
  — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 17 Feb. 2017
• That much is clear from the ruins of Boston, where craters from bygone missiles gape beneath tilting highrises wrapped in plate-like Polypores.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
• Exit wounds gape open on enemies hit by headshots, their lifeless eyes staring blankly.
  — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024