gape at

gape at someone or something

to stare at someone or something in wonder. Don't just stand there, gaping at me. Come in. Stop gaping at the storm clouds and get in here.
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Like those who stand in the street and gape at the passers-by: thus do they also wait, and gape at the thoughts which others have thought.
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That meaning at least, while he gaped, it offered him; for he could but gape at his other self in this other anguish, gape as a proof that HE, standing there for the achieved, the enjoyed, the triumphant life, couldn't be faced in his triumph.
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All of these people stared at me, talked about me, ran into the huts and fetched out their families to gape at me; but no- body ever noticed that other fellow, except to make him humble salutation and get no response for their pains.
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we shall sit and gape at one another as dull as two cats.
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Don't gape at me like that, and come along at once, unless you want to be left behind.
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Of course, the SUPREMELY aristocratic thing is to be entirely oblivious of the mire of rabble, with its setting; but sometimes a reverse course may be aristocratic to remark, to scan, and even to gape at, the mob (for preference, through a lorgnette), even as though one were taking the crowd and its squalor for a sort of raree show which had been organised specially for a gentleman's diversion.
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I was surprised how well it actually works - it didn't gape at all and was really comfortable.
By Julie Hannah Big girls' blouses; By Julie Hannah Two Scots try out the shirt designed to stop busty women popping out
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