Gaping has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | She was gaping at their quarrel. | |
| 2. | Mary stood gaping and speechless. | |
| 3. | Sami was found with a gaping gunshot wound to the back of his head. | |
| 4. | Sami turned Layla's body over and found a huge gaping wound in her chest. | |
| 5. | Then fury spurred their courage, and behold, / As ravening wolves, when darkness hides the day, / Stung with mad fire of famine uncontrolled, / Prowl from their dens, and leave the whelps to stay, / With jaws athirst and gaping for the prey. / So to sure death, amid the darkness there, / Where swords, and spears, and foemen bar the way, / Into the centre of the town we fare. / Night with her shadowy cone broods o'er the vaulted air. | |
| 6. | Now fail the ships wherein Achates ride / and Abas; old Aletes' bark gives way, / and brave Ilioneus'. Each loosened side / through many a gaping seam lets in the baleful tide. | |
| 7. | The lava punctured the boat's roof, leaving a gaping hole. | |
| 8. | "Here Scylla, gaping from her gloomy lair, / the passing vessels on the rocks doth hale." | |
| 9. | Those mountains are molehills, if compared with the waves of the sea. As often as we were lifted up high, one might have touched the moon with a finger. As often as we were let down, we seemed to descend directly into hell, the earth gaping. | |
| 10. | Without a word, she turned and went swiftly up the stairs, whilst I stood like an idiot gaping after her. |