- present tense form of gawk (3rd person singular).
gawks
Example Sentences
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The crowd gawks at her — devout eyes wide, lips parted as if witnessing a miracle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
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
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
