No determined man probably ever had an habitually gaping mouth.
Not I: I'd rather set the door wide open And watch my Gunnar kindling at the peril, Keeping them back--shaming men for ever Who could not enter at a gaping door.
The viscous plant that grows i' your chamber: Strange longer serpents shall be swiftly snared And mixt untamed with hers, for you to read Her gaping and ridiculous tragedy As the cold perils sober her to pallor.
So long as there is no charge, gaping audiences automatically supply themselves in New York.
The gaping proletariate, seeing such graciousness, recognized the aristocracy of the democracy and were cheering madly.
Oliver," she cried, "why do you stand gaping there like a stupid sot?
He turned, and, leaning forward, gazed stupidly down into the gaping hole at his feet; then he drew back.
He neither looked to the right nor to the left, but, without saying good or bad to any living soul, he and the odd, lean little servant entered the inn, leaving the crowd that stood without staring and gaping after him.
But its horrible gaping mandibles added a good three feet more.
Their mandibles, gaping laterally, clicked and clashed upon each other's impenetrable armor.
Twin tapering antennae appeared, and then a monster beetle lurched into the open space, its ghastly mandibles gaping sidewise.
Burl had watched with wide eyes until a gaping hole appeared in the armor of the smaller one.
The hairy legs were still braced as if to enlarge further the gaping hole through which it had partly fallen.
It is certain that we should do all that is possible to reduce that annual list of ships whose only record is "Not since heard of.
Nelson--long minus one eye and one arm--in this battle received a severe wound in his head, the skin of the forehead hanging down over his face.
Before, however, she could get near the wreck, the nine men were driven to seek refuge in the rigging.
Some said that it was Poor Head, others that it was Kinsale, and others that it was Youghal, and others again that it was Cork Harbour.
And in a flash came back to his outwearied, aching head remembrance of how, in the height of the eagle-fighting, there had come the plunge of a lean, gaping beak and the sudden rending of his coat.
The consul or monitor, who was bound by his duty to look after the comrades entrusted to his care, had such frightfully wide pockets to his trousers that he could stow away the whole contents of the gaping dealer's stall in them.
Many a one, with gaping mouth and outstretched hands, would have liked to jump upon other folk's heads, to get a better view.
Your husband is an enormous dragon, with many folds and coils, a neck swollen with poison, and huge gaping jaws.
So, swooping down, he took the urn in his talons, and flew with it through the gaping jaws of the dragons so swiftly that they had not time to close upon him, or to pierce him with their fiery tongues.
An air of confidence passed from him to the amazed yet easily captivated jury; the distance between them, so gaping during the last two days, closed suddenly up.
But, on the instant, Barnabas sprang in and closed with him, and, grappled in a fierce embrace, they swayed a moment and staggered out through the gaping doorway.
He, with threefold jaws gaping in ravenous hunger, catches it when thrown, and sinks to earth with monstrous body outstretched, and sprawling huge over all his den.
Himself among the foremost he grasps a poleaxe, bursts through the hard doorway, and wrenches the brazen-plated doors from the hinge; and now he hath cut out a plank from the solid oak and pierced a vast gaping hole.
Come now, don't stand gapingat me like a fool, but take us there directly.
The light flooded an empty corridor, with the door of the room nearest to him gaping into a dark interior.
Joe Boyd, in tattered shirt, trousers patched upon patches, and gaping shoes through which his bare toes showed, stood in the doorway.
Ann put down her sheet and went to the fireplace, and with the tip of her coarse, gaping shoe she pushed some burning embers under a three-legged pot on the stone hearth.
And it was obviously the same with Squadron Leader Hixon, for the pilot just sat motionless in the seat, gaping wide-eyed out at the flame and smoke pouring out of all that was left of the starboard engine.
He also was able to realize that the pilot had regained consciousness, and was gaping up at him out of wide and still slightly dazed eyes.
The fact that their supposedly secret journey to Chungking had been publicized just about as much as Santa Claus' yearly trip on Christmas Eve left them speechless, and gapingat the Flying Tiger C.
But the bird merely pecked at the food once or twice and then settled down with beak gaping and the film stealing over its eyes.
Between these gaping fangs she crept, listening, striving to set her feet on the rocks without making any noise.
As he was of gigantic stature, and possessed a magnificent coat, he proved a very lucrative acquisition as a show to the gaping multitude, and soon made the fortune of the cornac who bought him.
The York and Roon were less shattered, but gaping wounds could be seen in their sides.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gaping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
