gape

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

As geology fans gape at video feeds that show incandescent rocks blowing from El Popo’s peak, those who live along its flanks have watched with respect and a noteworthy lack of trepidation.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023

Shops are closed and apartment blocks gape with broken windows.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

Mr Kinnock, who was director of the British Council in St Petersburg from 2005 to 2008, said time spent there taught him there was a huge gape between the Russian public and the country's leadership.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2022

A pair of women on bicycles pull off the road and gape at the truck as its passes: some infernal lorry sent to blight their town.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

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

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 Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2021

He gapes at the fires surrounding the reservoir, surprised they’ve grown this far.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

American executives at the Guangzhou auto show gaped at the car’s uneven purple paint job and the poor fit of its doors.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Anyone who has ever gaped through a gym’s plate-glass window or nodded off to a late-night infomercial has become familiar with the contraptions.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2023

Day after day the pitiless sun blazed down, scorching whatever still struggled to grow and baking the earth hard until at last it split and great irregular fissures gaped in the land.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

While health insurance and long-term-care coverage helps, gaping financial holes can still remain.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

A gaping hole could be seen on one side of the church, with flames visible from the roof which has been partially destroyed.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Somehow, even if they do, there is a successive chain of Agriculture Department inspectors, including at slaughterhouses and things like that, that are going to notice a gaping wound on an animal.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

"There was a huge, gaping hole in the garden where the kitchen was supposed to go and the back of the house was at risk of collapse."

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

At its foot, guarded by a solitary yew tree, was a cavern of darkness like a silent scream: a gaping stone mouth.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver