gaping

Example Sentences

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If we may: What gaping security issue are we really talking about here, anyway?

From Slate • Apr. 28, 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

A gaping 75-mile-wide trench now sits where a massive horizontal skyscraper called the Line was to be developed at Neom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

The gaping holes torn in a road to Mandalay by last year's devastating earthquake have been filled in, and the route in northern Myanmar partly resurfaced.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

The Horned King’s eyes blazed behind the gaping sockets of whitened bone.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander