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Meanings of gape maw in English

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Usage of gape maw in English
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The Weave gave way before them, opening gaping maws in the Weavers' defences.
The skein of lament
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Wider still, its gaping maw right in front of David's face.
Alien: Covenant
3
Fiendishly ugly, it is gelatinous and pink-skinned with a gaping maw.
BBC
4
It was unzipped, lying open like a gaping maw.
The iron king
5
Rowan strode into the gaping maw of the cave mouth, his pale-gray cloak flapping behind him.
Heir of Fire
6
Twisting around, I saw Ash and Puck step through the gaping maw of a cartoonish blue whale.
The iron king
7
The gaping maw of the long-abandoned pantry yawned blacker than ever in the absence of both sunlight and candles.
Too wicked to kiss
8
There was motion in the gaping maw of ruin that had been Elaine's hotel room, and a woman appeared in it.
White night
9
Lucretius describes the open gate and 'huge wide- gaping maw' which must devour heaven, earth, and sea, and all that they contain:-
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete / Series I, I...
10
I stepped away, and Helen wiggled the lid back into place, then wheeled the gurney to the gaping maw of the furnace.
The devil's bones: a body farm novel
11
Though he could not keep from trembling, as he lifted the satchel containing the worldstone and laid it inside that gaping maw.
Existence
12
It threw back the sheet and struggled to rise, that black insect's leg still extruding from its gaping maw of a mouth.
Revival
13
Kit had a momentary case of the jitters as she found herself gazing directly into the gaping maw of the booster's powerful engines.
The Sails of Tau Ceti
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Once more into the gaping maw of that alley, that hellacious piece of pavement that had never done right by him in the past.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
15
A long hooded robe concealed the form's entire head and swathed its arms, which were held open over the gaping maw of the black grave.
Nevermore