gape at
Example Sentences
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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
This morning, as his companions gape at the fluttering clusters on the branches, he begins scouring the ground under the trees.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2022
Branson’s Virgin Galactic “suborbital” flight will take him and his crew some 55 miles above sea level, where they will experience a few minutes of weightlessness and gape at the Earth’s curvature.
From Slate • Jul. 10, 2021
Morbid is dashing off to Paris every other week to gape at the corpses on public display at the city morgue, which is what Charles Dickens and his friend Wilkie Collins did for fun.
From New York Times • May 23, 2019
Even Havermeyer had lifted his head from his plate to gape at him with his heavy, pendulous jaw.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
