Sample Sentences for
agape
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(editor-reviewed)

agape as in:  mouth agape

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She was shocked, mouth agape.
agape = wide open
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    She stared at him, mouth agape.
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    She stared at him, mouth agape, as those words gradually seeped into her brain.  (source)
    agape = open from surprise
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    Dumbledore's glasses were askew, his mouth agape, his eyes closed.  (source)
    agape = open
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    Even Newt stood mouth agape.  (source)
    agape = open
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    His mouth was slightly agape, as if he were surprised, and his eyes were wide open, but he didn't appear to see them.  (source)
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    She is transfixed-with all the girls, she is whimpering open-mouthed, agape at the ceiling.  (source)
    agape = with mouth open from surprise
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    She stares at the fallen Sentinels, jaw agape.  (source)
    agape = open
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    The dogs gathered around it, rearing as it turned its blunt head, jaws agape and hissing.  (source)
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    Vogel stood with his mouth agape as a shocked expression swept across his face.  (source)
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    Go's car, the Elliotts standing with jaws agape, on the platform, left behind, save yourselves.  (source)
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    She saw very old, infirm people with their mouths agape; although they were, at best, only partially alert, they gave their stuporous attention to images that my grandmother described as "too surpassing in banality to recall."  (source)
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    Men, women, and children all watched it with mouths agape, eyes wide, their cheers stuck in their throats.  (source)
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    The children lay spellbound, every mouth agape.  (source)
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agape as in:  agape love

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John wrote of agape love.
agape = spiritual love
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    Agape love endures forever.
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    I mean all the forms of love, eros, agape, libido, philia, and ecstasy.  (source)
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    This was what their agape had come to.  (source)
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    "Agape" I had been renamed, because we all had to give each other new names for the retreat.  (source)
    Agape = spiritual love
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    Why is Frankincense such a good name, Agape?  (source)
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    You were supposed to wear your new "reborn" name on a tag all weekend; I'd hear "Agape" and I wouldn't even turn around until tapped on the shoulder.  (source)
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    Agape?  (source)
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    Agape?  (source)
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