(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.
Ajar
Definition:
(adv.) Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.
(adv.) In a state of discord; out of harmony; as, he is ajar with the world.
Example Sentences:
(1) I felt that theatre was closed, but that when it came to film, the door was very slightly ajar.
(2) Finding the outer door ajar, I pushed it open and stepped out and was struck by a blast of cold air.
(3) Turn the heat down to medium-low and simmer with the lid slightly ajar for at least 45 minutes, until tender but not falling apart.
(4) Signs such as a closed door, door ajar, door half-open or completely open all have different meanings ...
(5) But he appeared to leave the door ajar when he was asked whether his claim that he is "not available" would still apply if the Lisbon treaty is ratified.
(6) alpha 1-Inhibitor 3 was a more complete ring sometimes ajar at one corner.
(7) We try to show the function of pen names for Romain Kacew, who was twice rewarded by the Goncourt prize, under two pseudonyms, Romain Gary, then Emile Ajar.
(8) Davis Cup: Nick Kyrgios virus leaves door ajar for Lleyton Hewitt return Read more Kyrgios has been struck down by a virus while also struggling with a back injury which forced him to withdraw from his semi-final in Dubai last week.
(9) Sterling fell on the foreign exchanges after King's remarks to mark the publication of the Bank's quarterly inflation report were seen as keeping the door ajar for further moves to stimulate growth later in the year.
(10) And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction.
(11) The door was ajar and the blood-soaked walls and floor of the stairwell could be seen.
(12) Zlatan may be pre-demob-happy, a superstar who can see the exit door ajar in the distance.
(13) The door becomes ajar at 0-15 to Djokovic ... and then Wawrinka's serving slams it shut again.
(14) It has pledged to “capture more quickly the value we see” – which usually means running the business harder and ensuring the backdoor is not left ajar for opportunistic bidders.
(15) It should have been game over for City later on but Lewandowki's profligacy left the door ajar for Mancini's players and Balotelli took full advantage to leave the Dortmund players crestfallen at the end.
(16) The door was, however, left ajar for a potential Five deal.
(17) As if the window left ajar had seized on its hinge and couldn't quickly be shut again.
(18) The news prompted alarm in Britain's pension funds, which are concerned that QE pushes down interest rates and reduces the return on their investments, but Threadneedle Street left the door ajar for a further expansion of QE2 should the economy not respond.
(19) What they have discovered is that in many hospitals the door is more than ajar, and in a few it is already wide open.
(20) If that door has been closed, many in Hollywood are suddenly ajar, but for now Abdi remains remarkably level-headed about his newfound success.