(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.
Dumbstruck
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The crowd, if it heard, was puzzled, and I was dumbstruck with gratitude – Springsteen?
(2) When he admitted, reluctantly, that since his sister left home, it had felt to him as if a piece of the family was missing, I was dumbstruck.
(3) But Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told state TV channel Rossiya-24 he was “dumbstruck” by the reports of Putin’s alleged involvement.
(4) Exiled Chagos Islanders living in Britain and Mauritius have said they are "dumbstruck" by a European court ruling that it has no jurisdiction to examine their forced expulsion by the British government in the 1960s.
(5) Bloody hell" - dumbstruck after United's Treble victory in 1999.
(6) If you think addressing Oxbridge students and the staff of a national newspaper is an odd way to puff Nobody's Daughter, the first Hole album since 1998's million-selling Celebrity Skin, well, it's height of normality compared to the promotional campaign she undertook for her 2004 solo album America's Sweetheart, which reached a height of insanity with a cover feature in British rock magazine during which Love had a Brazilian wax in front of a dumbstruck journalist, poured a bottle of champagne over her head, then took off all her clothes and ran down Park Lane.
(7) I was dumbstruck when he offered his phone number with the suggestion to "ring us up if you're ever in London".
(8) ‘We thought, ‘This is the biggest thing in our lives, how can you not ask how we are doing?’’ But many friends were dumbstruck and didn’t know what to say.
(9) The Tory benches were left dumbstruck, desperately opening and closing their mouths like dying goldfish, while the Labour MPs looked as if they had seen a ghost.
(10) Goldstone was dumbstruck at the possibility that one individual, be he a Beatle or not, could single-handedly finance a project on this scale, but time was pressing and he was willing to listen to any offers, however crazy they sounded.