The word "gape" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb meaning "to stare with one's mouth open in amazement, shock, or surprise" or as a noun meaning "a wide open gaping mouth." Example: The children were seen to gape as they entered the grand hall for the first time.
The hem sat just on my knee, the belt went around my waist, rather than my backside, and it didn't gape around the armhole.
Driving outside Freetown is not the life-or-death lottery it once was, although the potholes still gape.
Sometimes, holes gape where once entire houses stood.To save one of Brazil's national treasures, Olinda's mayors have had to beg, borrow and improvise.
An enormous wall bisects the valley, dressing it in white spray, and three huge jets of water blast from its sluices.Half complete, the dam is already a local wonder that tourists gape at.
As they strolled along the pretty seafront, the tourists found themselves rubbing shoulders with workers rebuilding a wrecked fire station, and staring at historic churches which still gape roofless at the tropical sky.Four months after Hurricane Ivan left its trail of mayhem, Grenada is still struggling to get back on its feet.
But beyond lies a Russia where criminal gangs prey, potholes gape, and the next place southbound for a decent cup of coffee is Turkey.In the past three years more than 50 Finnish trucks have been hijacked between Vyborg and Moscow, two drivers have been killed and two have gone missing.
Some were his constituents, in camouflage caps and T-shirts, gape-mouthed among the gilt and marble, come to talk to him about the problems of Marsh Fork Elementary School or their uncle's black lung.
He decried "comfort stations", "dining experiences", fringed upholstery, framed diplomas and collar-gape jackets.
In most salamander larvae, feeding is accomplished by a "gape-and-suck" method, in which the throat is expanded, or gaped, to produce a suction that draws water and prey into the opened mouth.
This difference typically yields a flatter and broader skull in the pleurodires an architecture that may have allowed the evolution of the gape-and-suck feeding mechanism seen in many pleurodires and best developed in the South American matamata (Chelus fimbriatus).
He had a weird growth along his dorsal fin, and that gape-mouth grimace you see in older fish.
