Meaning of gape-mouthed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Overwhelmed with awe or astonishment.
2. Having a wide-open mouth.
3. Having a wide opening.

Examples

“"You may be wise in your study⟳ in the morning,” (says brow-beating Johnson, to his gape-mouthed admirer Boswell,) “ and gay in company at a tavern in the evening.””

“This argument also does Sweden, her king, and Chancellor Oxenstierna a regrettable historical injustice, for it trivializes the gape-mouthed surprise⟳ with which most European statesmen greeted the initial successes of the Swedish invaders in 1631.”

“The brain, we are to understand⟳, is sufficiently complex to supoprt higher functions because it is composed of some 10,000,000,000 neurons; and, as if this were not sufficient to leave⟳ one gape-mouthed with uncritical awe, it is pointed out that each of these components connects with numerous other components, so that the possible number⟳ of sub-units or combinations exceeds the number⟳ of atoms in the universe.”

“Finally there were the fugitive images that imprinted themselves on his fizzling, fading brain as his gape-mouthed head spun in the air: a night sky flocked with gentle clouds; the saffron glow of the lamps along the riverbank; the door to the synagogue garret, flapping open⟳ in the breeze.”

“So in the spring⟳ my room and that portion of the veranda set⟳ aside for the purpose always had at least half a dozen cages and boxes containing gape-mouthed baby birds or birds that I had managed to rescue⟳ from the sportsmen and which were recuperating with makeshift splints on wings or legs.”

“And on the second OOOOOOO, you picture just a naked glowing green skull that hangs there vibrating gape-mouthed in a prison cell.”

“A corpse swirled past me, gape-mouthed, fish-white, dull eyed.”

“At the best of times it had been too tight, and now the gape-mouthed face⟳ resembled a blue tomato.”

“A gape-mouthed wicker trunk served as a hive.”

“Now the grime-filmed upper-level windows of their facades peered sadly across at each other over gape-mouthed loading bay entrances whose shutters were all jammed somewhere uncommitted between open⟳ and closed.”

“The alien gently manoeuvred the ship out of the gape-mouthed bay.”

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