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Example sentences from the Web for gapingA recent Pew Poll graphically likewise portrays the stark national divide, and the granular differences are gaping. The 2014 Election Is Yet Another Scrum in the Culture Wars|Lloyd Green|October 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST Remarkably, Americans have not risen in revolt against this gaping inequality. Obama’s Extravagant Summer Break? More Like, America’s Vacation-Deficit Disorder|Clive Irving|August 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST After the Christians departed, Muslims moved in and scratched out the eyes of many saints, leaving them with gaping holes. The Secret Life of Cappadocia: Underground in the Turkish Rock Formations|Nina Strochlic|August 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST The NRA forces lawmakers to gut a proposed law, leaving it with gaping loopholes. The Senate’s Worthless Gun-Control Compromise|Adam Winkler|April 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
“This is a huge, gaping hole in accountability,” says Flournoy. ‘The Invisible War’ Spurs Action Against Military Rape|Eleanor Clift|February 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST Dr. Ingleby, for one, was distressed by its “painful stare, with goggle eyes and gaping mouth.” Summer Days in Shakespeare Land|Charles G. Harper With bloodshot eyes, and gaping mouth, and flaming nostrils, the hideous creature came rushing onwards. The Story of Siegfried|James Baldwin I answered, looking with indignation from him to the gaping train behind him. A Gentleman of France|Stanley Weyman The huge hearth receives the mighty log, and the flames and sparks shoot up the gaping chimney. Old English Sports|Peter Hampson Ditchfield He swung his cane at the gaping crowd and called out, in military language: Right about, face! Against the Current|Edward A. Steiner
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adjectivewide open; extremely widea gaping hole Derived forms of gapinggapingly, adverbWords nearby gapinggape, gaper, gapes, gapeseed, gapeworm, gaping, gap junction, gaposis, gapped scale, gapper, gap phenomenon Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to gapingvast, cavernous, yawning, broad, great, chasmal |