10 examples of gaper in sentences

This is an admirable example of the way in which a man, with death in the most dreadful form before his very eyes, and eternity beyond it, will care for nothing but the impression he makes upon a crowd of gapers, and the opinion he leaves behind him in their heads.

One man has put a plank upon the tops of three chairs, and by paying a few sous the gapers can hoist themselves upon it.

This spectacle, however, of combatants and gapers distresses me, and in despair of learning anything I return into the city.

Suddenly a smart young woman pressed through the surrounding gapers, with an infant in her arms, and leading a girl about fourteen years oldall three the exact image of his wife.

This done, the gapers saw what they had come to see.

The Dutch, who are more famous for their Industry and Application, than for Wit and Humour, hang up in several of their Streets what they call the Sign of the Gaper, that is, the Head of an Idiot dressed in a Cap and Bells, and gaping in a most immoderate manner: This is a standing Jest at Amsterdam.

Your most humble, Q. R.' SIR, 'In answer to your Letter, I must desire you to recollect yourself; and you will find, that when you did me the Honour to be so merry over my Paper, you laughed at the Idiot, the German Courtier, the Gaper, the Merry-Andrew, the Haberdasher, the Biter, the Butt, and not at Your humble Servant, The SPECTATOR.'

he pushed and elbowed the gapers impatiently aside, and apologised to the prince for their curiosity.

Motors were lined up four deep on all sides, and I was obliged to elbow my way through the crowds of gapers, refugees, and officers that thronged the street.

" I pressed forward, and came upon a crowd of gapers standing outside a shop.

10 examples of  gaper  in sentences