gawk

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

The explosion happens in slow motion, allowing viewers to gawk at all of DeYoung’s shrewdly constructed, cinematic shrapnel.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

Nearly 100 reporters still showed up to gawk at their greatness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

“You’re not the only one who wishes to gawk and gape at our resident caged animal. I am considering charging admission.”

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

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

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

A little boy gawks at them with a wide-open mouth.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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

Movie stars didn’t like being gawked at by tourists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 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

My dad ended up directing traffic for the next five minutes while people gawked at me and my mom and Fang, trying hard to look cool inside the Taurus.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

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

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

Strolling and gawking at the houses and whistling a happy little dorky tune like some Sneezy or Snoozy or whatever their names are.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli