gawking

Example Sentences

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"It's actually like looking at a digital image of your new dinosaur and gawking over it in the tent in the middle of the Sahara."

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

Barnum gradually expanded these gardens to include museums and theaters, where families could do everything from gawking at unusual people or animals to watching performances of fairy-tale characters like Aladdin or Goldilocks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 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

But if past habits hold, we may never be done with gawking at the well-heeled.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2025

Behind him in the hall I could see Vega and the others gawking at me with smiles on their faces.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore