How to Use gaping in a Sentence

gaping

adjective

• Alex Sandro was on hand to simply fire the ball into the roof of the gaping goal net.
  — SI.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• And Roger Goodell’s dim, gaping face is the reason why.
  — Will Leitch, Daily Intelligencer, 30 May 2018
• Roofs of ranch-style houses were missing tiles, and some had gaping holes.
  — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2018
• Seldon is amazing in the secondary and Smith will open gaping holes in the defense.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2019
• Images of the scene show a gaping hole inside the red brick building, with the red Porsche still inside the building.
  — NBC News, 10 Nov. 2019
• Rudy screamed at his gaping teammates, while lighting a garbage can on fire.
  — Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2017
• But a gaping hole appeared at the back when Luis Suarez played Jordi Alba clear.
  — Joseph Wilson, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2019
• And then, hovering in the background, there was my gaping lack of knowledge.
  — GQ, 6 Feb. 2018
• Some buildings have gaping holes in them, like the concrete has crumbled due to age or erosion.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 27 Feb. 2020
• Middle-aged women were likely to have gaping holes in their gums where their teeth used to reside.
  — Lisa Birnbach, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• The gaping hole is actually just a black tarp held up to the exterior wall of the school by what appears to be duct tape.
  — Hollie Silverman, CNN, 16 May 2018
• And now that Shazier's season is done, the inside linebacker position has been a huge gaping hole.
  — Stephanie Stradley, Houston Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
• One seemingly gaping hole that exists on defense is the weak-side linebacker spot next to Mosley.
  — baltimoresun.com, 11 June 2018
• On Wednesday, police tape circled the building, its gaping roof open to the blue sky and charred debris littering the grounds.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
• So why is the chasm between would-be and actual performance so gaping?
  — Steve Ayan, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
• The viral outbreak has revealed gaping holes in health care coverage at a time when people may need it most.
  — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2020
• Angelina Brannigan looked with awe at the gaping front of her dress shop, A Divaz Boutique.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 29 May 2018
• While there is a big gaping hole in the global sporting calendar for the coming months, the schedule in France is suddenly looking very busy.
  — Jerome Pugmire, Houston Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2020
• The ensuing battle of wits between the thug, who fears exposure, and the snob, who smells a best seller, highlights the gaping class divide between them.
  — Chicago Reader, 7 Mar. 2018
• Kevon Looney busted out of the training room, traded their gaping-in-the-back hospital gowns for game unis, and inspired the Warriors to a 46-42 halftime lead over the dazed Toronto Raptors.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
• Forests fell to the mills that provided the first burst of manufacturing wealth in the 18th century and that produced gaping tracts that poured great gouts of mud into the river.
  — Keith Schneider, ProPublica, 31 July 2019
• Rookie Matt Wotherspoon, the latest minor league pitcher to fly coast-to-coast to bridge a gaping innings gap in the bullpen, took over with one out and two runs across in the third and allowed five straight batters to reach base.
  — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 23 June 2019
• In 2013, a Gentoo penguin snapped a selfie of its gaping beak while toying with a GoPro camera from a Canadian cruise ship.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
• So, really, a mentor’s role is to help with unknown biases, blind spots, and gaping voids that are invisible to the founders.
  — Prasanna Krishnamoorthy, Quartz India, 31 May 2019
• Stacked up in corners at Best One are irreparable tires sporting sliced chunks of rubber and the outlines of smiling slices doled out by sharp rims that have slammed into gaping road craters.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 3 Mar. 2018
• Big Thing, with elements of house, pop and rock, dropped at a time when popular music was wistfully staring at its gaping navel.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2018
• Photos show a gaping hole where a window was on the 737, and outside a mangled mess of engine cowling, with the white on blue Southwest lettering crumpled like a soda can.
  — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
• America’s wealth gap, in which the top 10% of households own 80% of America’s financial assets, may become a bit less gaping.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• Among all the gaping holes and wounds in our collective life that the new coronavirus has revealed is the fact that our public language long ago depleted its resources and then debased itself.
  — Lee Siegel, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2020
• When Chestnut feeds a dog into his maw, like a log into a wood chipper, A's fans respectfully lower their own frankfurters and manually close their gaping mouths.
  — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 4 July 2016

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