open-mouthed

Like colossal, synchronised swimmers, they lunge through the middle of the bubble net open-mouthed.

While meteorologists say the forecast between now and the start of the Games is for hot and sunny weather that will help keep waterborne bacteria levels down, the Olympic organizing committee has confirmed there are backup plans in place if the Seine is deemed unsuitable for competitive swimming — which, as many commentators have noted, involves concerted open-mouthed gasping for air.

“We all stood there open-mouthed as she loaded him into the car.”

Unlike Edvard Munch’s epic, open-mouthed, two-handed wail, the faces in Johnson’s art are tranquil and composed, not emotional.

Starkly lit by Weegee’s trademark flash, the portrait of the actor Peter Bull as the open-mouthed, bulging-eyed Soviet ambassador fits squarely in his delightfully lurid body of work.