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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Yet the lizard brain making you gawk is shrieking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Comedian Daniel Tosh even parlayed a desire to gawk at the web’s inept and unaware into a vicious update of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” that aired on Comedy Central for years.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2026

Some tourists are just people on vacation there to gawk, while others are influencers there for content.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

She glanced back over her shoulder, and I did the same, trying not to gawk.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

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

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

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

Locals gawked as his agents patrolled the Chicago River in a Border Patrol boat armed with long guns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 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

Her cheeks were red and her jaw clenched as she gawked all around.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

"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

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

So I went gawking around the neighborhood—the Waumbeck and Humboldt Avenue Hill section of Roxbury, which is something like Harlem’s Sugar Hill, where I’d later live.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey