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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a wide mouth.

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Examples

  • But he had the foresight to drop the bunch of matches into his wide-mouthed outside pocket before he slipped on his mittens in despair, and started to run up the trail.

    First Version of To Build A Fire 2010

  • I took possession of the abandoned cave, but it was wide-mouthed, and after

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • He set down the large, wide-mouthed glass cradled between his hands.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • I had a gig-bag hanging on the chairback, unzipped, wide-mouthed staring at the too-drunk-to-fuck geezer burping up acid from a liver gone sour-milk and he had the guts to smile at me.

    Sax Named Pegasus Paula Ray 2010

  • He set down the large, wide-mouthed glass cradled between his hands.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Just roll them up and drop them into a dry, wide-mouthed bottle.

    Common Household Items Make Packing Easier | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • He set down the large, wide-mouthed glass cradled between his hands.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • You have to admire the joy of one of the four men soaring through the familiar "little swans" variation from "Swan Lake," his smile beaming to the balconies, wide-mouthed in exhilaration and -- in contrast to his colleagues, who were shooting him well-timed disapproving looks -- luxuriating like a little boy in the sheer thrill of flying through space.

    Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Divas infuse humor, character in dances Sarah Kaufman 2010

  • Fragments of flesh, bone, and shirt flapped and hung wide-mouthed.

    Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

  • Doran's pen decorated the page with ragged arrows, wide-mouthed circles, thick black underlines, until at last, quite winded, he looked up to discover daylight gone and the piazza filled with walking shadows.

    Two Poets Carol Reid 2011

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