gaped

past tense of gape

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gaped Inside the old asylum, plaster peeled from mottled walls and holes gaped in the ceiling. Jen Rose Smith, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025 Some stuffing gaped out of the rips on the back. Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gaped
Verb
  • Here was an artist who had stared death in the face and lived to write reasonably well about it.
    Maggie Doherty, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Kerkering stared straight ahead.
    Matt Gelb, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Drilling for progress As the rest of us gawked at Maye’s pinpoint accuracy on his 55-yard completion to Rhamondre Stevenson in the third quarter of last Sunday’s win — the longest of his career — Maye’s position coach smiled for a different reason.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the photo’s bottom‑left corner, a child pressed to someone’s chest gazed directly at the viewer.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Who among us has not gazed at the stars and marveled at how our eyes are absorbing light that traveled thousands of years to reach us?
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Gaped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaped. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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