open wide

Mohammed shows me a photo of Ivana before the strike – her brown eyes open wide, a pink soother in her mouth, her face framed by brown curls.

And then the fire stopped abruptly as the dragon’s head snaked up and over the Mirror, her mouth open wide to devour both Jack and May in one bite.

The dragon let out a bellow of pain, then snarled and shot back down toward the two teenagers, her mouth open wide.

Was it open wide enough for a scrawny seven-year-old to fit through?

When you follow the two-lane approach road, you pass a few miles of mostly idle postindustrial waterfront, climb a hill, then descend to the harbor, where you are greeted by a 40-foot-long steel-and-ceramic crocodile, jaws open wide.