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Gaping
"Gaping" in a Sentence (14 examples)
She was gaping at their quarrel.
Mary stood gaping and speechless.
Sami was found with a gaping gunshot wound to the back of his head.
Sami turned Layla's body over and found a huge gaping wound in her chest.
Then fury spurred their courage, and behold, / As ravening wolves, when darkness hides the day, / Stung with mad fire of famine uncontrolled, / Prowl from their dens, and leave the whelps to stay, / With jaws athirst and gaping for the prey. / So to sure death, amid the darkness there, / Where swords, and spears, and foemen bar the way, / Into the centre of the town we fare. / Night with her shadowy cone broods o'er the vaulted air.
Now fail the ships wherein Achates ride / and Abas; old Aletes' bark gives way, / and brave Ilioneus'. Each loosened side / through many a gaping seam lets in the baleful tide.
The lava punctured the boat's roof, leaving a gaping hole.
"Here Scylla, gaping from her gloomy lair, / the passing vessels on the rocks doth hale."
Those mountains are molehills, if compared with the waves of the sea. As often as we were lifted up high, one might have touched the moon with a finger. As often as we were let down, we seemed to descend directly into hell, the earth gaping.
Without a word, she turned and went swiftly up the stairs, whilst I stood like an idiot gaping after her.
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There’s a gaping hole in the fence.
Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.
The men who stood behind the scenes and worked the religious puppet-show by hidden wires to the awe and astonishment of the gaping vulgar.
M. Le Gallois considers these gapings, which continue for some time after decapitation, as the vain efforts of the head for respiration.
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