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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Upon visiting the day cares, Shirley and his middle-aged male partner, David, discover the centers have locked their doors and won’t let them in to gawk at the children.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026

But whether spectators were there to pay their respects to someone they admired or to gawk at the cortège for another one of Hollywood’s dead blondes is its own question.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

I remind myself that I’m not here to gawk at the guy I like.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

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

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

Roberto did not have time to cruise, but he took pride when people gawked at his car.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

"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

The man stood in the middle of the road in decadent Beverly Hills, gawking at one of those only-in-L.A. streetscapes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2025

Then she blinked and focused and there I was, gawking, looking like the creep I was.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx