rubbernecking
Example Sentences
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“It is pure rubbernecking and I can’t stop,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Twitter is perpetually a car fire, and its biggest advantage is that humans enjoy rubbernecking.
From Slate ● May 7, 2024
Other reality TV wedding circuses emerged from this primordial soup too, including a few that built an entire marriage-accessory block on TLC and a market for rubbernecking horror comedies like WEtv’s “Bridezillas.”
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2024
She told Vogue she had thought hard about people "rubbernecking" - wanting to look at others' misfortune.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
Alone in the dim, dusty room, I could still see her dumb round eyes, rubbernecking.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
