open-mouthed

Modifying Another Word

there: The six of them just stood there open-mouthed, in complete horror.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

leave: The ground shock and left everyone open-mouthed and I heard someone say " Wow!

Modifies a noun

• disbelief: I quickly find the all-important name, then stand, like my comrades, in open-mouthed disbelief.
• amazement: A couple kids to my right were lying in their freshly dug holes facing the band in open-mouthed amazement.
• wonder: Why does this event initiate such an open-mouthed wonder, filling us all with awe?

Used with adjective complement

• stare: We stare open-mouthed for a few moments, then begin exploring our new desktops.
• sit: I sat open-mouthed at hearing this other person's perception of what gay life is like.
• stand: The six of them just stood there open-mouthed, in complete horror.
• leave: I was left open-mouthed by the remark and hoped this apparent blind spot would prove temporary.
• watch: The workmen watch open-mouthed, hesitant, for they cannot be sure that they are the quarry - and the crowd is upon them.
• gaze: God's rescuer has come A light for everyone Anna gazed open-mouthed.

Preposition: in

• amazement: You might also tap your sales ability - and pull off a sale that leaves someone open-mouthed in amazement.
• admiration: At the end, the scene dissolves back to the office with Wills & Forster open-mouthed in admiration.