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How to use the word gaping in a Sentence?

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Today’s immoral quick fix is tomorrow’s gaping and painful wound that never heals.

Dianne Marie Teresa Cole

added by anonymous
9 months ago

I am my own power, my own home with blackened roses gaping at softened slashed easy chairs, furled requiems of silence, yet strength too -- of poetry, of the books, of the gods. I am my Own and I intend to be the keeper of My truth, the slayer of My dragons, the Exorcist of My demons.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

All the eastern European people, all the people that we had, who worked for the hospitality industry, have disappeared [ during the pandemic ], leaving this huge, big gaping hole.

Mandira Sarkar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nobody believes that I got out of that for free, i left the White House $ 16 million in debt. But you typically have ignored gaping facts in describing this. And I bet you don't even know them. This was litigated 20 years ago. Two-thirds of the American people sided with me.

Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is a rush of unlimited money coming in, undisclosed money coming in, and a bunch of gaping holes that allow a lack of disclosure, what we're seeing is overall an increase in people and groups navigating the system in a way that they can hide money.

Adam Bozzi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The gaping wound in America’s national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.

James Scot

added by Matthew jhon
6 years ago

If you don’t feel ordained by the Universe to do this job, do something else. The intelligence community has to shut down the gaping wound that is the insider threat epidemic we are experiencing right now.

James Scot

added by Matthew jhon
6 years ago

No one will ever replace my dad, but knowing Lang has helped heal some of the gaping hole in my heart.

Laura Griffith

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

You have these gaping holes in capacity.

Thomas Dobbs

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It’s just gaping holes in the budget, you can't really cut revenues as much as the plan would do and still have a functioning government that still looks anything like the government we have right now.

Roberton Williams

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Mike McCaul said. Mike McCaul went on to cite several problems with the administration's plan, including not having a comprehensive list of the estimated 5,000 or more foreign fighters around the world. Paris changes everything, there are a lot of holes -- gaping holes.

Mike McCaul

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

No music can fill the gaping void ... at least in my experience only faith. Only faith.

Beau Biden in public remarks

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I wish I could say something that would ease the pain of the families and of the church but I know from experience -- and I was reminded of it again 29 days ago -- that no words can mend a broken heart, no music can fill the gaping void ... at least in my experience only faith. Only faith.

Beau Biden in public remarks

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I wish I could say something that would ease the pain of the families and of the church but I know from experience -- and I was reminded of it again 29 days ago -- that no words can mend a broken heart. No music can fill the gaping void ... at least in my experience only faith. Only faith, sometimes even faith leaves you just for a second. Sometimes you doubt. There's a famous expression that says faith sees best in the dark. For the nine families, this is a very dark, dark time.

Jill Biden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There are huge gaping differences between people in South Africa and that is why you need dialogue, which you can't have without its monuments and statues.

Steve Hofmeyr

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We need to be moving toward becoming an Afrocentric university where African thought can be appreciated. there are huge gaping differences between people in South Africa and that is why you need dialogue, which you can't have without its monuments and statues.

Steve Hofmeyr

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There simply is no safe arrangement for resettlement in Papua New Guinea. It is a gaping whole at the end of the Australian government's offshore processing arrangement and as long as that exists, there isn't a remedy.

Ian Rintoul

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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