(adv. & a.) Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
(n.) The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.
Example Sentences:
(1) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
(2) Investors agape as the rule book is taken out and burnt.
(3) The results suggested that Rubin's Love Scale contained elements of Mania and Agape but none of Ludus, which could not be further differentiated.
(4) He sees me scrutinising it, slightly agape, and says, "OK, I'm piecing it together now.
(5) In the moment of victory Murray dropped his racket and turned, mouth agape, towards the nearest section of the crowd – by happy coincidence also the press box – before crumpling to his knees on Centre Court, overcome at the end point of a gruellingly ascetic, occasionally obsessive journey towards an unassailable career high.
(6) But when, as advised, Gale and Zemeckis sent it to Disney, agape faces awaited them.
(7) AGAPE (Computer-based Outpatients' Clinic Programme) is a programme for IBM-compatible microcomputers realised by physicians for the management of hypertensive patients.
(8) The hole in the landscape that opens up in front of the group of visitors is so vast and deep that some of them simply stare, mouths agape.
(9) There's no… " And he does the Lineker goal face, arms raised, eyes dementedly screwed up and mouth agape, a disturbing sight for anyone who kicked over a coffee table – and split a toenail – when he scored against West Germany at Italia 90.
(10) Agi & Sam : AKA Agape Mdumulla and Sam Cotton, who met while working at Alexander McQueen .
(11) The author critiques the dialectic between justice-based ethics and an ethic of caring from a historical perspective (by analogy with the dialectic between agape and friendship).
(12) The ibis raised its bill and gagged down the worm, its bill agape and throat bulging with each hard swallow.
Agog
Definition:
(a. & adv.) In eager desire; eager; astir.
Example Sentences:
(1) The young people that one speaks to,” she writes, “they’re agog that you spent a day on a bus with Beyoncé, they’re thrilled that you had an encounter with Eminem, they think it’s absolutely insane that you met Madonna.” “Just all those freedoms,” says Patterson, marvelling afresh.
(2) The world looked on agog as Tim Cook, the head of Apple, said his company had paid all the taxes owed – seeming to say that it paid all the taxes it should have paid.
(3) She meets him only once, when he comes to the agency to have lunch with her boss; she notices that his hair is neatly combed, but she is too agog to take in much more.
(4) On the day we met last week, the papers were agog with economic Armageddon, as the new French president flew off to Berlin to face a German chancellor whose austerity creed appeared to be on a collision course with France's new mission for growth.
(5) I was agog at how difficult it must be getting a buggy down and across the gap, which is sometimes considerable.
(6) They were astonished that she had succeeded, and agog for the results.
(7) A week earlier, Sugar had looked agog when it turned out that Poulton had already found a collaborator to handle the coding for his proposed business idea – a framework for creating mobile games.
(8) Naval watchers will be agog to know whether Russia can keep three large ships on the seas without one of them breaking down.
(9) Legal London is agog with news of the fees Jonathan Sumption commanded.
(10) Obviously the world is agog to see what Cumberbatch makes of the role; and it would be idle to pretend that his TV and movie-fame is not a major reason for the excitement.
(11) The River Tiber will flow with much blood,” Powell had said, quoting Virgil, moved to prophecy because of an annual influx of 50,000 migrants, and because one of his constituents had told him: “In this country in 15 or 20 years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.” For a moment, I observed, agog, the students listening, rapt.
(12) In general, gay visitors were no less agog and aghast than the straight out-of-towners who made up the rest of the audience.
(13) There are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The world is agog to see what Benedict Cumberbatch makes of the role.