gape

The corners of its mouth, called the gape, stopped around the middle of its eyes and turned up, which someone described as a “Mona Lisa smile,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025

But the company's wholesale volumes for the whole year were still down 9% at 6,030 cars, pushing its pre-tax losses to gape by a further 21% to £289 million.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025

Scientology remains this subgenre’s biggest recurring star, even as we seasonally gape at and praise the high-power talent that legitimizes it.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2024

Shops are closed and apartment blocks gape with broken windows.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

I gape like a fish as Cook, as silent-footed as her mistress, materializes from behind the sheet I've just hung up.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

The crater gapes at about 13 miles wide and 2.6 miles deep.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023

The line of the river now gapes like an open wound, perhaps a hundred metres across in places.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2023

Referring to the 2016 attack, Mr. Cablitz said: “It is a wound that still gapes in the heart of the city. Everyone remembers it.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

When pipes experience a catastrophic failure, the breach typically is much bigger, what’s referred to in the industry as a "fish mouth" rupture because it gapes wide like the mouth of a fish, he said.

From Fox News ● Oct. 8, 2021

He just gapes at me, like he’s trying to process that.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The question many are asking with gaped jaws: How could this have possibly happened?

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

In 2022, Joshua Cain and his partner, André Reyes, stepped into the foyer of the home on Monrovia’s South Ivy Avenue and gaped in wonder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Customers have gaped at his portion sizes, he said—one woman ordered a plate of nachos and consumed roughly four bites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Far out in the desert, the researchers gaped at the six-foot-long femur, the jaw, teeth, and base of the crest.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Behind them the great cracks gaped wide to receive them as the tree swayed and creaked.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

While welcoming the move on standing charges, Dawn says ministers had been "trying to put sticking plasters over gaping wounds", which were "not fixing the problems".

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

He saw a gaping hole where the walls had collapsed and realized he had accidentally sent the coordinates of his own basement location.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Later, the vehicle was removed and a gaping hole was visible in the Metro bus’ side, with wreckage strewn around the scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Just two years after the 62-year-old actor snapped up the modern 4,000-square-foot home, shocking images have revealed extensive damage outside the residence, with the collapse cracking open the sidewalk and leaving behind a gaping hole.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

One of the autos flew right into the building and crashed through the back wall, leaving a gaping hole.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler