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[oh-guhl] / ˈoʊ gəl /


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Nearly half a million people were expected to pass through the sprawling Javits Convention Center, from industry bigwigs to families just coming to ogle hundreds of new vehicles on display.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

They went to ogle dioramas and marvel at ventriloquists, glass blowers and a troupe of 200 “educated” white rats.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

It provides a place to rest, admire a perplexing painting, ogle the crowd or check DMs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

Well, at least we can ogle some pics and see how the strange looks of the Pixel 6 will evolve.

From The Verge ● May 11, 2022

Ralph could only ogle, though, helpless with envy, as Grover balled up his napkin.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

In the 1988 movie “Working Girl,” an assistant secretly stays at her absent boss’ apartment, ogles its opulence alongside her best friend and tries on a dress with a $6,000 price tag.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

The Emcee’s funhouse reflection signifies not only how straight culture ogles the novelty of a newly surfaced queer society in Weimar Berlin but also how that queer community ogles at the novelty of itself.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025

Central to all four stories is food, and the camera lovingly ogles ingredients being chopped, spiced and roasted according to the families’ culinary traditions.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2020

In another short scene, he ogles electric guitars through a shop window.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2019

He favours the tightest, thin-soled, pointed brown shoes, crops his hair, shaves his cheeks and chin clean, walks with a self-consciousness, and ogles and bandies repartee whenever he passes a maja.

From The Story of Seville by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

During a timeout, the fans danced to Bruno Mars, pounded their white noisemakers, ogled a courtside Kim Kardashian and eventually locked arms and swayed to “Don’t Stop Believing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024

As a young investment banker new to the city, I ogled it in the windows of the home shop D.F.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

Rayden and Brock ogled the robots, spaceships, smoke and lasers during their personal Star Wars tour.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 28, 2019

The spectroscopy data—arcane squiggles on line graphs—still have a long way to go before being ogled for any beautiful mysteries revealed.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 19, 2018

In return there was a fantastic, visceral payoff—a single season of his life in which he became a prince, ogled at, treasured, bathed in the unimaginable glory of Friday night.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

The ogling over Maserati-priced tickets was obnoxious and the celebrity fuss was way too much.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

But instead of ogling violence to exploit its evil and nauseate the audience, Lynch calls attention to the systems that propagate it.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2025

She notices that great artworks, when surrounded by throngs of ogling tourists, can emit a sense of being “victimized.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

The plot hinges on a $300,000 engagement ring that goes missing after it has been passed around the dinner table for ogling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

The unusual time of morning to perform the exhumation was selected to thwart possible newsmen and curiosity-seekers from ogling the corpse and possibly taking photographs.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady


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