gawk

Yet the lizard brain making you gawk is shrieking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Redick said he was simply poking his head into the situation the way people might turn their heads to gawk at commotion in a bar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

Upon visiting the day cares, Shirley and his middle-aged male partner, David, discover the centers have locked their doors and won’t let them in to gawk at the children.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026

To them, he is something to gawk at while patting themselves on the back for “accepting” him.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

Anya tried not to gawk at the castle as they moved through it, but it was nearly impossible not to.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

Anyone who sits through the end credits of a franchise movie and gawks at screens filled with hundreds of names of special effects and visual effects crew knows most of the is digitally animated.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2024

The sweet little shrug that the grown-up, matronly Dakota Johnson gives to Dismukes, as he gawks at her younger self strutting around the stage, makes the entire sketch worthwhile.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024

You can’t get strangers to help you lay that foundation — the world gawks, it can’t help itself — but you can ask the grandmas and certainly the teachers to.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2022

Carolyn Hax advises a woman whose husband gawks at pretty women online and describes himself as an arrogant liar.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2017

“This is a conflict you great gawks must attend to yourselves. The Fair Folk owe you no allegiance,” he said angrily.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

Another gawked in horror as a squealing toddler tore through the store while their mom examined the chocolate moon rocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

In addition to a steady stream of sellers, the machine also drew the attention of bystanders who gawked at the large sums of money changing hands at the unassuming corner of the mall.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

We gawked at the sea creatures — lobsters, soft-shell turtles, wriggling live eels — while she filled the cart.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025

In Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Sunday, onlookers gawked at a charred hilltop, where newly fallen leaves had already obscured the scorched earth of Friday’s 2-acre brushfire.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2024

The next room we visited was the US Astronaut Hall of Fame, where I gawked at the portraits of space heroes and legends.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

This is not about gawking at illness or punishing people for seeking care.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

In recent days, social media has been filled with videos of Europeans gawking at the staples of suburban American life—a two-car garage, a walk-in closet, a second refrigerator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Maybe it’s just disorienting because no one anticipated gawking at his torso inside the historic downtown Los Angeles venue founded by Hollywood legends Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

People watching from inside the building could be seen gawking and tapping at the glass, as Honnold moved past the enclosed observation deck on the 89th floor.

From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026

I can’t help gawking at her ride in admiration.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina