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When VIPS zoom by in motorcades, you just gape for a moment and then forget about it.
And we're the schnooks who gape and give these people our grudging or not so grudging admiration.
Near the corner of Wilshire and La Brea, tourists gape at the remains of saber-toothed cats and mastodons dredged out of prehistoric tar pits.
She continued to gape at him as if he was a runaway lunatic from a nearby mental asylum.
Rearing turkeys was no easy job even in small numbers and diseases such as pip and gape took their toll despite good care and attention.
She was holding a champagne glass, the liquid half gone, and was grasping the doorframe, her mouth in a permanent gape.
The anterior, probably downwards-orientated, part of shell has a gape from which the foot could probably emerged.
It also has a tiny beak with a large gape which help the bird catch its aerial prey.
This expansion allows the jaw musculature to be stronger and also permits a wider gape.
Tadpoles that live this way have a broad tail, a wide, rounded body, and a peculiar mouth totally unlike the familiar smiling gape of a frog.
It also has a tiny beak with a large gape, surrounded by stiff feathers called rictal bristles, which help the bird catch its aerial prey.
Later that day, we visit Middle Island to gape at thousands of boobies and frigatebirds returning to their roostings.
The large gape looks ideal for hawking insects in mid-air, but paradoxically, the birds take most of their prey from the ground or from a branch.
The moveable front part of the cranium provides a larger gape when the mouth is opened, and this may be advantageous in feeding.
The gape coincides with the base of the first frustum, the top of the last frustum is situated well behind the bulging oesophagus.
Swifts feed on the wing, and their large gape enables them to catch insects while in flight.
My mouth dropped in a gape, as I fought to find the right words to say to her.
As the kinematic trace shows, peak opercular abduction closely follows peak mouth gape and is delayed by merely 12 msec.
Kirstie could only gape, caught between outrage and an unnatural desire to laugh.
The birds' large gape and manoeuvrable flight help them to catch their prey.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In all cases the contraction of the platysma causes the wound to gape widely, and its edges tend to be turned in.
The gape of his enormous jaws was nearly as wide as the gateway of the king's palace.
Ay, you may be sure I looked quick at the minister, and there I saw a sicht that would hae made the grandest gape.
The bill is one inch one line long from the gape, and, with the irides, is red.
When a pelecypod dies and the pull of the adductor muscles is released, the valves gape open.
The Duke sank back in his chair to gape at his impetuous cousin.
People came all the way from Sicyonia and Tyre to gape at it.
They gape round him while he twangs and screeches, the wind-bag!
The hair would lose its brightness, the mouth would gape or droop, would be foolish or gross, as the mouths of old men are.
At that instant the whole of the heavens seemed to split and gape open.
Evidence for convergent evolution in gape morphology of the Bat Hawk with swifts, swallows, and goatsuckers.
Gauge thy gape with buck or goat, Lest thine eye should choke thy throat, After gorging, wouldst thou sleep?
Probably the mother during an important interval was sailing down the Peruvian coast, when earthquakes caused the beach to gape.
It is, however, less prominent than in oestrus, and does not gape.
Above us the crater seemed to gape like the mouth of a well.
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