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So-called rogues galleries allowed the public to gawk at images.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

But whether spectators were there to pay their respects to someone they admired or to gawk at the cortège for another one of Hollywood’s dead blondes is its own question.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025

Normally closed to the public, these inspiring gardens have a lot to gawk at.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025

Those tumors would often cause passersby to gawk cruelly, which made Pearson feel an unlikely kinship with the notable figures who stopped by the hospital.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024

We laugh so hard, people stop and gawk at us, but we ignore them.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

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 census outreach organizer for the Boyle Heights-based Latino Equality Alliance said he sometimes wears skirts and other women’s clothing to church, eliciting gawks and stares from other parishioners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2020

The best ones are also well-constructed and stylishly shot works that simultaneously elicit gawks and delight.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2017

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

Everyone gawks over how beautiful the cake is.

From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson

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

They gawked at the pallets of foie gras.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 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

In the second hour, the trio of professors stopped taking notes and just gawked at Jake as he fired off one correct answer after another.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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

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

Admiring the stationery and figurines at the original Webster’s Pharmacy and gawking at the endless array of birds at Steve’s Pets shop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026

The 66-year-old Sydneysider remembers gawking at enormous great white sharks hauled in by fishermen as a kid, back in the days the now-protected species could still be legally hunted.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

A lot of the kids were having fun, gawking and laughing and throwing peanuts at the animals, but the sight of those poor creatures made my throat swell up.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls